In Real Life

One Brave Battlefield 3 Soldier Takes On An Entire Army To Kill A Pesky Sniper

Snipers, man, amirite? They’re fiends. They find one good corner where even a scope glare won’t give them away, and they pick you off one by one.


May 27, 2012
PC

Choose Your Own (Goofy) Max Payne Video Adventure

Max Payne 3 does a lot of things right — from the relentless, blood-soaked gunplay to HEALTH’s astonishing soundtrack.


April 16, 2012
Uncategorized

Team Fortress 2 Meets One Of The Greatest Films Of All Time

Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, a masterpiece of both comedy and propaganda, is rightly regarded as one of the most important motion pictures ever made. Meaning it’s well worth watching in its own right.


March 30, 2012
In Real Life

He’s A Video Game Video Star, And He Wants Out

YouTube user KSIOlajidebt doesn’t know how to pronounce my name, but he figured out my Twitter handle and has convinced dozens and dozens of his fans to send me a video.


February 9, 2012
In Real Life

Epic Fan-Created Battle Rages Across Skyrim

In this skilfully assembled scene that feels straight out of the siege of Minas Tirith, a cast of hundreds go to war. Featuring undead, a dragon, and a couple of decidedly irritated mage-generals, “The Great Battle of Skyrim” lives up to its name. I, for one, walked away curious to learn more about the reasons for their fight.


January 16, 2012
In Real Life

Someone Got Duke Nukem In My Minecraft

Hail to the king of Minecraft, baby! No, not Notch. Duke Nukem! Thanks to Mutt’s World we now know what a day in the life of the Duke is like in Minecraft.


December 27, 2011
PC

Skyrim Meets Minecraft, Results Exceed Expectations

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.


December 6, 2011
Uncategorized

When Bioshock Becomes A Little Too Real

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.


December 2, 2011
PC

Star Wars’ Famous Trench Run, Recreated As A Minecraft Movie

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.


October 20, 2011
News

Star Wars Machinima A Clone Apart Returns

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