Soundtracks designed for video games have evolved a lot since the first synthesized beep was created years ago. Indeed, music in the interactive gaming industry has gone a long way. Now you can hear entire musical scores dedicated for a single game.

EMI Classics has pushed this concept further as they, Video Games Live and IMG Artist, are planning to release an album filled with some of the best known and most popular video game music of all time.

Entitled Video Games Live: Greatest Hits - Volume One includes medleys from various well-known games such as Zelda, Mario, Halo, Warcraft, Sonic, Tron, Myst, Civilization IV and Final Fantasy. The album was compiled by Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, reknowned video game composers and Video Games Live co-creators. Included as well are the Slovak National Orchestra and the Crouch End Chorus and the "Video Game Pianist," Martin Leung.

The album will be released on October 19, coinciding with this year's Video Games Live event on the same day at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and on October 22 at London's Royal Festival Hall, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra.

When NCsoft announced that Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa would be one of their featured games this E3, quite a few MMORPG gamers took notice. The news on this game has been rather scant, though most would agree that it looks like a good game.

Speaking of "looks," IGN was able to get eight screenshots of the game from E3. The Bane's looking really menacing, with the armor and all the lovely (albeit deadly) glowing lights. Another thing that is looking good are the environments, graphics are really taken care of in this MMO. For those who have been looking for more details on character customization, there is a specific screenshot which shows off the system, complete with red "Tron-like" armor.

From the get go, I knew that it would be looking good, but I never expected it to be so well executed. We can expect to hear more about this game as E3 progresses so keep checking back here for more updates.

The rest of the screens await after the jump!