Daniel Licht, the composer for Dishonored and Dishonored 2, has died at age 60, Variety reports. He also composed music for several of the Silent Hill games and for TV’s Dexter, among others.

Nier: Automata audio engineer Masami Ueda has written a cool blog post detailing how he implemented composer Keiichi Okabe’s secondary hacking soundtrack. It’s easy to overlook how much work something like that takes, and fun to get a look at Ueda’s process.

The next time you’re playing board/tabletop games, or even just working or playing a grindy kind of video game, consider firing up Tabletop Audio, a website that loops ambient background noise for situations ranging from “Lunar Outpost” to “Medieval Library”.

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