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Four Grammy awards have been amended to encourage submissions from the video game industry. The current generation’s videogame soundtracks often result from the same compositional and orchestral work as their television and movie counterparts, but they haven’t typically been recognized as such. This may change with the future of the Grammy Awards, as The Recording Academy has seen fit to specifically add videogames to the descriptions of four awards. Funnily enough, a videogame song actually won at the 53rd Grammy Awards which took place in February 2011. However, it was a stealth win. Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu” won a Grammy […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/52/52729.jpg