Earlier today, an Xbox Wire post went live announcing the composers of “Halo Wars 2” – Gordy Haab and Finishing Move, and also revealed two new tracks from the “Halo Wars 2” soundtrack, “Run, Little Demons” and “Isabel’s Awakening.”
Please see below for bios for Gordy and Finishing Move, as well as SoundCloud links for the two pieces of music.
“Run, Little Demons” – https://soundcloud.com/343i/runlittledemons
“Isabel’s Awakening” – https://soundcloud.com/343i/isabelsawakening
Gordy Haab is a multi award-winning film, video game and television composer who has written music for many well-known titles, including most recently: Electronic Arts’ best-selling “Star Wars: Battlefront” which received seven nominations and four wins at the 2016 G.A.N.G. Awards—earning, “Music Of The Year,” “Best Interactive Score,” “Best Audio Mix” and “Sound Design Of The Year.” Activision/AMC’s “The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct”, based on the #1 hit TV series, Microsoft’s “Kinect: Star Wars”, which won “Best Music” at the 2012 Hollywood Music In Media Awards, and EA/Bioware/LucasArts’ highly popular “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” for which he was awarded “Best Original Soundtrack” and “Best Instrumental Music” at the 10th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards, presented at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Comprised of duo Brian Lee White and Brian Trifon, Finishing Move began lending their niche sound and talents to games and interactive music. With several high profile projects including Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Halo 2: Anniversary, The Halo Channel (Microsoft/343i), Cozmo (Anki), Massive Chalice (Double Fine), Overdrive (Anki), Tilt Brush (Google), Drop Chord (Double Fine) and a GANG award for Best Instrumental under their belt, they are currently working on the much anticipated Halo Wars sequel for Microsoft Studios, due to be released February 2017.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.