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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

(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 ...

I love the idea of making movies, but actually doing it can be so … taxing. Last year, I heard about machinima —a catchall term for 3-D animated movies made with video games and consumer PCs. Bedroom ...

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 ...

Machinima, a Los Angeles online video entertainment company targeting computer gamers, said it has raised $35 million in a financing round led by search engine giant Google. Machinima, which provides ...

It started as a goof — an easy way for gamers to share their latest tricks online. An option in the first-person shooter “Quake” allowed players to record and save “Quake Movies” for later viewing.

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 ...