In recent years machinima (videos made using footage captured within games like Halo or World of Warcraft) has gone from a niche genre to a growth industry, with a burgeoning cache of online videos.

“It had never occurred to me that a fan could just up and make a video,” Mike “Spiff” Booth makes machinima videos of Jonathan Coulton songs (the guy who wrote “Still Alive” from Portal) using World ...

Over at the online gaming website Bioware, Hugh Hancock, the Artistic Director of the Strange Company, provides a great “how-to” on the making of his Machinima game BloodSpell. For those interested in ...

(Dell is holding a machinima contest, which we'll discuss shortly. They asked me to write a tutorial to help new machinimators get their start.) Every day, I feature a video by some brave soul that ...

Machinima is growing up -- finally. This weekend, the Machinima Film Festival and the Mackies-- the form's somewhat-annual awards ceremony -- will be held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, ...

Among those who make animated short films using overdubbed footage from games (machinima), Blizzard's World of Warcraft already gets a lot of play. Now, there's an official contest sponsored by ...

Executives from gamer video site Machinima.com talk about their plans to move into scripted content, even while making sure their millions of current fans keep coming back. Unless you’re a video game ...

In late November, news started spreading across the net about a new machinima -- a movie created using a video-game engine -- whose content went way beyond the usual World of Warcraft dirty dancing ...

In 2003, a group of Texas gamers would would be come to be known collectively as Rooster Teeth uploaded a three-minute video in which armored Spartans, hulking space soldiers, pondered the meaning of ...

De Montfort University's Institute of Creative Technologies will host the 2007 European Machinima Festival, the first Machinima festival to be held in Europe. The festival, which will take place at ...

What happens when you combine an episode of Top Gear, the BattleField 2 PC game, and a few guys who have way too much time on their hands? A machinima that’s worthy of being aired on the actual Top ...