James was one of the first UK composers to bring live orchestral recording to video games, working on Wing Commander-related titles such as Chris Roberts’ Freelancer (Digital Anvil/Microsoft), Privateer 2: The Darkening (Origin) and Conquest: Frontier Wars (Ubisoft) – followed shortly by the BAFTA-nominated Republic: The Revolution (Eidos) and Evil Genius (Sierra) for Demis Hassabis’s Elixir Studios. Some of his earliest orchestral music can be heard below.