Machinima

How many times have you read the Steamy Romance Novels?

If you've read our recent interviews with machinima makers, you know that creating videos using games as source footage is a time-consuming labor of love.

Making machinima in World of Warcraft isn't as simple as pointing your in-game camera and pressing record, something that's perfectly obvious in the carefully crafted music videos of Chriskon Machinimas (you can also find Chris on Twitter and Twitch).

You may have heard of a small sleeper television series, Game of Thrones, regularly presented on cable network HBO, which won approximately all the Emmys this weekend.

If you follow the world of machinima, you probably already know Nixxiom (and/or his partner in crime Moocluck) — or at least seen some of his videos.

There is nothing I like more than a good kill video, especially when that video brings in an element of machinima and storytelling on the side. Suge of Suge's Movies put together a perfect example of a kill video intro done right with Warlord Blackhand.

Machinima artist SlightlyImpressive is back with another WoW creation, this one pointing out six perfectly normal, everyday things that you simply can't do in World of Warcraft.

Slightly Impressive has released a new video that manages to squarely hit the nostalgia button -- well, for me anyway.

Oblivious Films has returned with, appropriately enough, another episode of The Grind Returns -- this time, featuring a nemesis every World of Warcraft player who has been playing for any length of time is well acquainted with.

The story of Arthas isn't a happy one, but if you take Wrath of the Lich King and tell the story backwards — like machinima-makers Slightly Impressive did — you get a very different take on things.