Stephanie at Vox Daily and Deirdre of the Voice Over Bulletin Board have collaborated on what can be the most important article for those looking to start voice acting in the lucrative video games industry. Play the games! They go into a little more detail about why you should be playing video games, but the main point is if you want to work in that industry you need to understand it. CLICK HERE for the story
Category: Video Games
Devil May Cry 4’s Dante voiced by Reuben Langdon
$500,000 for one voice over session. It sounds like a wonderful dream, doesn’t it? Well, that’s the payout that one unnamed film actor received for his work on a video game, also unnamed. That was just the precedent setting paycheck with another film actor requesting $750,000 for a one hour session on another game, but ultimately being denied.
The video game industry is a prosperous emerging market for the voice over artist with $18 billion in sales in 2007. This has, of course, caught the eye of film actors wanting a piece of that money pie at the detriment of the voice actor.
But is it all bad?
While they may taking away jobs from voice over artists, they are also raising the base rates for these video game sessions. Depending on how you view it, a voice over actor can now make more money in this sector. But, at the expense of more readily available jobs.
Voice Actor Michael Rosenbaum, better known as Lex Luthor on TV’s Smallville, has been tapped to voice Hayden Tenno in DP3A’s upcoming game Dark Sector. CLICK HERE for the story
BioWare’s latest RPG, Mass Effect, has single-handedly paid all the salaries of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada’s voice over community. CLICK HERE for the story.
