Valentin Goellner revealed as first speaker for the NG27 Audio Track
Nordic Game is excited to announce Valentin Goellner, Supervising Sound Designer at Arrival, as the first speaker for the NG27 Audio Track. Nordic Game 2027 takes place 25-28 May at Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden.
The exact title and description of his talk will be revealed later. What we can already share is that Valentin is supervising the audio on Moon Studios’ highly anticipated action RPG No Rest for the Wicked.
No Rest for the Wicked is the next game from the award-winning studio behind Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It is a visceral, hand-crafted action RPG with Souls-like combat, and can be played solo or in co-op with up to four players. The game entered Early Access on Steam in April 2024, and the full 1.0 release is due in March 2027 on PC and PlayStation 5, ahead of NG27.
Since joining Arrival (formerly Formosa Interactive UK) in 2022, Valentin has been supervising the audio for No Rest for the Wicked, building its immersive soundscape together with his teams at Arrival and Moon Studios.
Vienna-born, he came to Arrival after a decade of game audio work at Boom & Dynamedion, The Creative Assembly, PlayStation CA and Frontier Developments. He has been involved in several award-winning projects, including Total War: Three Kingdoms, which won the 2020 MCV Develop award for Audio Innovation of the Year, Returnal, which took the 2022 Audio Achievement BAFTA and DICE Awards, and Housemarque’s Saros, which won a 2026 Music and Sound Award. On Saros, Valentin was Supervising Sound Designer.
The NG27 Audio Track continues Nordic Game’s dedicated focus on game audio, after Jesper Kyd opened NG26 with a conversation on the main stage. More speakers and the full session details will be announced in the months ahead.
Don’t miss it. Secure your NG27 pass now at nordicgame.com/registration. A Content Pass is €449 ex VAT until 1 February 2027.
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