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Let's pretend, for a moment, that the court battle between Skyrim's owners and the developers of Minecraft never happened. And that instead of fighting each other, they got together and made a sweet, sweet video game. About blocks. And blocky dragons. More »
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It seems like everyone's making machinima, right? Recent riffs on BioShock, Super Mario Brothers and GTA IV might even make the act of making original narratives from pre-built video game engines look easy. You just need to capture some footage and invite some buds talk over it, no? It's a lot tougher than that. How tough, you ask? More »
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The latest "Co-Op Life" video from Machinima focuses on Bioshock, and it's pretty funny stuff. A couple of guys are playing the game on the couch, and the whole experience has… well, it's come out into the real world with them. It's basically a much more high-budget approach to the same kind of satire we've seen of other videos, but in this case, the bigger production values pay off. More »
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This isn't one of those mildly boring "look at an object I recreated in Minecraft" posts. This is hot-blooded machinima, Minecraft's blocks used to recreate whole sequences from the end of Star Wars. More »
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What a wretched, wonderful fictional construct the Star Wars universe has become. While many people hate how George Lucas's fiddling continues to dilute the memories of the folks who love it most, the Skywalker saga remains a rich playground for all kinds of comedy or tragedy. More »
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Machinima's got the full playthrough of the Hitman: Absolution teased earlier today in all of its 17-minute glory. Those poor cops. That poor hippie. More »
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About a year ago, PAX sought to ban booth babes (pardon me, "costumed booth representatives,") using a number of tests to determine booth babe-iness (as opposed to garden-variety sexy cosplay). One of them was a lack of familiarity with the product represented. More »
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David Zhou noticed the resemblance between the open titles of HBO's Game of Thrones and the maps of an RTS. And what do you know? A StarCraft 2 movie (created by Zhou) set to the GoT intro music looks pretty great. More »
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The royal wedding between Prince William and his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton on April 29 will be a lavish spectacle of celebrity and ceremony, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that will be remembered for decades to come. That doesn't mean it will be more entertaining than the Sims 3 version. More »
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The amazing mash up that blended Grand Theft Auto's cinematic violence with Super Mario Bros. lore, The Brothers Mario, has spawned a sequel. This time, in The Brothers Mario 2, the fight goes to Donkey Kong Country. More »
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Can you handle more than thirteen crazy minutes of Grand Theft Auto IV police chases, with Niko Bellic and his cousin Roman fleeing from cop cars, armored vehicles and police helicopters? Test your machinimatic endurance skills with "Hard Charger: Wide Open." More »
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What better way to kick off a Tuesday then a little dead zombie hooker action? Right? More »
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"The Trashmaster" takes the art of turning a video game into cinema and delivers an astonishing 88 minutes film. More »
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Among fans of Xbox 360 shooters, and that includes the two in my house, the great debate is whether Call of Duty: Black Ops or Halo: Reach is the better game online. More »
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As the year wraps up, so does everyone's take on what they think are the best games of 2010. More »
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Although it's filmed entirely within Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, don't expect this piece of machinima - called Mastermind - to be about guns, hookers or push-ups. More »
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Halo: Reach's Forge World is a much more robust tool for creating videos, gameplay ideas and, well, insanity than I first realized. More »
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Don't watch this video about how to get around the time limit on an armor lock. I'm warning you. More »
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Getting into the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta is all about having fun and experiencing new content, right? Wrong! Machinima.com sets Cataclysm beta testers straight in this guide to winning the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test. More »
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You get The Jacknife Chronicles, a piece of machinima that uses Source Engine editor Garry's Mod and makes a gripping little short film out of it. More »
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Apparently the quality control on Red Dead Redemption was so bad that lesser-quality games have begun bleeding into it. More »
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It's Bungie Day, and the developer celebrates with a new video featuring Rooster Teeth's Red Vs. Blue crew coming home to a new and improved Halo: Reach version of the Blood Gulch map. More »
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Michael Barnes is the man to thank for this incredible piece of Modern Warfare 2 machinima, which recreates the game's controversial "No Russian" mission in a manner fit for prime-time TV. More »
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Fans of the popular science show on the Discovery Channel might not accept any substitutes for hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, but maybe they'll get a kick out of watching "myths" get busted on the battlefield of Modern Warfare 2. More »
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Machinima just can't help itself. We've seen Castlevania, Mario, Contra, and now here we are with Battletoads as reenacted within Half-Life 2. More »
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Machinima put this up last week, following the Castlevania and Mario reconstructions in Half-Life 2. Anyone who's ever played Contra - that should be all of us, right? - will want to watch this start to finish. More than once. More »
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From all-new video games to fabulous cakes, the Super Mario Bros. and Castlevania games get lots of makeovers from fans and developers alike. Here are two more machinima renditions to add to the list. More »
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Not even a week after its release does Dragon Age: Origins put out its official Toolset for download, allowing PC users to assemble battles, campaigns, and lip-synched cut scenes to share with the game's community. More »
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Machinima film, 6 Days in Call of Duty 4, is going to the Cinemanila International Film Festival alongside prestigious films like Let the Right One In and Inglorious Basterds. More »
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If you've seen war, or if you're a student of it, perhaps this will merely strike you as a well edited sequence of cutscenes from Empire: Total War. Others might find it strangely gripping, especially because of the music. More »
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Naughty Dog is finally offering details on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' "Cinema Mode," a suite of machinima tools that lets PlayStation 3 owners replay, edit and tweak saved gameplay footage and share with friends. There's nothing half-tucked about it. More »
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Two machinima artists who met at Stanford University's Play Machinima Law conference a few months ago have tackled what Six Days in Fallujah was/is trying to address with a Call of Duty 4-created "documentary." More »
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Almost two months ago, I attended a Machinima Law conference at Stanford University as part of an extra credit assignment. Today, you can watch what I saw for free. More »
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Yes, the Sims 3 can render countless chipper versions of ordinary-looking people. But can EA's June juggernaut handle global singing sensation Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent? Sure. And Obama, too, in this EA clip. More »
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Today kicks off Stanford University's Play Machinima Law Conference with panels of machinima artists, copyright lawyers and legal representatives from Blizzard, EA and Microsoft. More »
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Immersion Games and Ubisoft have created a somewhat humorous machinima video with their upcoming downloadable first-person shooter CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars, featuring references to Cobra Commander, Osama Bin Laden, and yes - snausage nipples. More »
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Writers from 15 televison sitcoms, including The Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy, have signed on with Machinima.com to 15 original episodic comedy pilots for the online network using video games. More »
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Were it not for Garry's mod, Half-Life 2 would be a serious place. Lucky, then, it's not, and for years now Garry's mod has been allowing entry-level machinima to bring a smile to our faces. More »
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