Yoko Shimomura Archives

This morning, BAFTA announced that legendary video game composer Yoko Shimomura will receive one of their highest honors, as they will present her with the BAFTA Fellowship during this year's ceremony Shumomura is being honored for her decades of work across multiple video game franchises and titles, as she has had a hand in many[...]

The event will honor composer Yoko Shimomura with this year's Lifetime Achievement Award for her work over the decades making memorable music, while Fawzi Mesmar will receive the Ambassador Award, which is awarded to individuals who "elevate video games and the industry as a whole to a better place." You can read more about the awards[...]

Square Enix has posted a new retrospective piece with composer Yoko Shimomura as they discuss working on the Mana series Shimomura has been working on the series for three decades, providing a lot of the music for several titles, including the remastered release of Legend Of Mana that happened last month You can read the[...]

Kingdom Hearts fans will get a rare opportunity to learn more about the game's soundtrack with a Q&A with Yoko Shimomura Square Enix will be hosting a special event tomorrow, October 23rd at 8pm PDT on the game's official Facebook page where they will have the renowned composer answering your questions The event is being[...]

Five individuals were picked to work on the soundtrack, as the company will be working with Yūzō Koshiro, Motohiro Kawashima, Yoko Shimomura, Hideki Naganuma, and Keiji Yamagishi If those names don't sound familiar, we have their credits below from the announcement made earlier today But in short, they're some of the most talented game soundtrack composers you'll find[...]