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A podcast about machinima, real-time filmmaking and a pinch of VR.

10/07/2025

This week on the , we discuss a cutscene extravanza of Arthur's life story in , apparently endorsed by Roger Clark himself. Its a story told in three acts, supported by some great musical choices, even if we don't completely agree on that. What we do agree on is that Charles Liu has done a superb job of selecting just the right shots to portray the character. You can hear us go through the film and find the links here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSBxKIBoU8

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Rockstar Games

"Courage is not the absence of fear, it is acting in spite of it." Yep, never a truer few words than said in jest. This week, we discuss a cutscene extravanz...

03/07/2025

Who remembers The Naked Gun? (well, who could forget it)... this week on the we review a retro gamer-eye view of the opening scene of the infamous TV series, courtesy of the talented Hat-Loving Gamer. Enjoy the discussion here > https://youtu.be/wKcZ2R3HJXs

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This brings back so many memories for us, the 1980s and 90s, Frank Drebin's utter incompetence and Leslie Neilsen's brilliance. Hat Loving Gamer has excelled...

19/06/2025

Latest ep of our podcast, with a fab new intro by Phil Rice with a bit of assistance from su-know-who. This week, we reflect on a classic WoW machinima from 2007, I'm So Sick by Baron Soosdon - a music vid to that amazing song by Flyleaf (once heard, who can ever forget Lacey Sturm's primal scream). We also touch on WoW's epic in-game metal heavies, . Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN92SAzYMgI

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Activision Blizzard

Our latest deep dive into machinima history, and this month we focus on , a Finnish creator whose work is legendary among us. The film pick, I'm...

19/05/2025

Any Spanish speakers here? Tracy Harwood and Benjamin L Grussi's book is now available in paperback: Pioneros en Machinima: Las Raíces de la Producción Virtual

https://vernonpress.com/book/2061

To mark the availability of the paperback edition the publisher is offering a limited-time 30% discount for orders placed through its website. To obtain the discount please enter the following coupon code at checkout: UZGB30

Descubre 'Pioneros en Machinima' y la evolución de la producción virtual desde sus raíces hasta convertirse en género principal en la obra parte de BLS.

01/05/2025

Not your average story, in this week's ep we discuss a short-ish film made in (Garry's Mod) called Fragile Harmony, reminiscent of Philip K Dick. Check out the review here, incls link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnddqPqaOtI

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Valve

This week's ep focusses on the 2024 Machinima Mayhem contest winner: Fragile Harmony, made in Garry's Mod by and re...

24/04/2025

Any anime lovers here? We reviewed two for this week's ep of the podcast, tapping into Ricky Grove's legendary knowledge of anime use in machinima generally. Both the films we discuss were made using Square Enix' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFr1mAJ3gQs&t

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This week we discuss a machinima form we've not really talked about before - anime. Whilst its one of Ricky's favourite creative forms, for the rest of us it...

17/04/2025

Once a month, on the podcast, we do a news sweep on things we've spotted that we think are relevant for filmmakers, content creators and machinimators alike - here's the ep for this month (all the links can be found on our blog post) >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBvrzMr9eUA

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In this week's episode, we discuss the month's news items we've found most interesting and relevant to making machinima, including more great projects to be ...

03/04/2025

In our podcast review this week, we discuss a series made in Red Faction Guerilla called Optimism Bias plus, for a bonus ep, Tracy caught up with its director, Andrew Good Knight. What a treat to hear about the series, some of the challenges they faced, including the fascinating way they actually filmed this, and Andrew's plans for future work.

Catch both eps on our YT channel, link to the review here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvdZGdgMt84&t and link to the interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp2j6Dcy6xk&t

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A viewer nominated series, this week's ep is another great example of brilliant writing. Optimism Bias was directed by and originally rele...

20/03/2025

In this week's ep of the podcast, we review one of the most original uses of we've seen to date - its a talking heads absurdist series focussing on a post-human race called the by . Our ep focusses on one particular episode reflecting on the role of exercise (p**n x-er-keys), described as the strange behaviour of 'hoomans trying to mystically transform their bodies through motion alchemy and strain worship'. Yes, well, that's obviously a truism! Link to our ep here >>>

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One of the most extraordinary picks we've made, probably ever, on the show! This week, we review an emergent absurdist talk show, focussing on the life of th...

13/03/2025

This month's news omnibus on all things is out - we take a look at some great projects > Phil Rice's Chuck Norris vs 50K Cavemen is hilarious, Esoterica's latest release and their amazing world building (in UE), celebrate 's win at the Oscars (made with Blender, a bit more about challenges and a fab mod that places on the map (in ). Check out the ep here >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqDohG-USw&t

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Our regular monthly news update about all things machinima, and some other items we enjoyed discussing -1:19 Projects: latest release, D...

06/03/2025

This week's film was a prescient tale about a post-pandemic world - its a 2006 pick from the 'golden age' of , featuring performances by Ricky Grove and Ingrid Moon, and music by Phil Rice. Made in San Andreas, The Days After by Andre Pesch won a bunch of awards at the time, but probably only now realises its full impact. Check out our review and link to the film here >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8WA77vNiUU&t

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Rockstar Games

This week we review a 'golden age' machinima, starring none other than Ricky Grove playing 'Bogart', and Ingrid Moon playing err, 'Ingrid', with Phil having ...

14/02/2025

This week's ep of our is a walk down memory lane - a documentary fly-on-the-wall style of the founder of [.com], Hugh Hancock by Stuart Brown (2003). Hugh's vision, alongside that of notable others in the community at the time, was nothing if not prescient - although it took a global pandemic to change the view of certain key folks and The Force! Check out our discussion here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0YL-Dy5sUand do also take a look at the interview Tracy did with Hugh back in 2014 on the blog linked in the vid.

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This ep, we take a walk down memory lane to the first major peak of with a documentary produced by , released in 2003. The fil...

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