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EndgameRadio Episode 150

Published on April 11, 2007 by Tom Mannino | one comment
Categories: News, Audio, Endgameradio Prime, In-game Advertising, Music, Competitions, Machinima, Game Music
Kareoke, Machinima, and Cute Girls Singing! The Sims 2 has had some amazing marketing recently, and we took a walk along some complex adverhax. They are sponsoring an art show at some pretty significant art schools, as well as sponsoring a cool music contest. Lily Allen sings one of her songs in Simlish, they make a machinima out of it, and then sponsor a kareoke contest in which you can sing the Simlish song. It just ended yesterday, unfortunately, but you could have won tickets to see her, and even head out to EA to record a song in Simlish yourself! We also think the micropurchases for the Xbox Guitar Hero is too expensive, and that’s saying a lot because we like micropayments, when done well.

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More interesting Ludology news

Published on April 8, 2007 by Aaron Matthew | 0 comments
Categories: ?, Machinima, Ludology

Stanford gets a collection of 25,000 games: If only this kind of focus on archiving and preservation were around during the creation of the motion picture most of the originals might be in a similar archive. But what about non commercial games? There are some groups working on archiving architectural spaces (levels and such) of game worlds from old to new, and some others who work on a particular game lineage (rogue-like games for example), but I’m sure there are some old MUDs forever lost to humanity if no one speaks up about them.

Machinima School: I can’t wait until the throngs of amateur machinima-based theses (plural thesis for those who think that’s a typo) and school dramas with bad unreal models or warcraft characters dancing to the tune of really bad music. Oh, wait… If anything this is probably a good introduction, especially as a medium of expansion for the oh-so-awesome Experimental Animation degree.

Epic Win and /Dance

Published on February 28, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 comments
Categories: News, Music, YouTube, Machinima, Tourette's

This kind of stuff keeps me chair-dancing all day. It’s a little Stomp, mixed with Blue Man Group. Sprinkle Headcrabs to taste. Serve on G-Mans briefcase.

Canterberry Tales + WoW

Published on February 12, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 comments
Categories: News, MMOs, World of Warcraft, Machinima

Educated Machinima! That’s book-learnin.

WoW and Chaucer: A Match Made in High School - Kotaku

A Few Good G-Men

Published on January 15, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 comments
Categories: Machinima

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Really good job.