Category: Machinima

“Half-Life 2: Godspeed You! Gordon Freeman”

January 28th, 2012 · By Vic · In: Art, Community, Creations, Games, General News, Half-Life 2, Machinima, Media, Music, News, Trailers, Videos 8

Half-Life 2 lends itself to a lot of different styles and moods. As such, it seems as if you could almost put just about any soundtrack behind it, granted it fit properly. But, of course, the prevalent atmosphere in the Half-Life 2 series is melancholia. After all, the Earth has been invaded by a totalitarian multi-dimensional alien empire picking Earth to the bone for its now-dwindling resources. There are no more children, and genocide has taken most of the world’s population.

So while you could, in theory, make an improved HL2 soundtrack using Haddaway’s “What Is Love”, the HL2 series really does lend itself to more somber sorts of music. Which brings us to…

UnKnown Moments 5 Released, After 2-Year Wait

January 8th, 2012 · By Vic · In: Community, Games, Garry's Mod, General News, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Left4Dead, Machinima, Media, News, Random, Videos 9

A very, very long time ago, in February of 2007, CaLeB (or, as he is now known… oxcjae) released a lovely little Garry’s Mod comedy video, UnKnown Moments. A crazy collection of all sorts of weird and surreal comedy sketches, UKM was a hit, and just half a year later, it got an even better sequel. But we had to wait one whole year for part 3. And another whole year for part 4. While we got some holiday-themed shorts during 2010, last year brought us absolutely zilch on the UKM front.

Well, you need wait no longer. Unless you haven’t actually been waiting for it, in which case… gah, screw it. UnKnown Moments 5 is finally here. All the classic in-jokes, running jokes, characters, and signature moments are back. Twice the length as well. It’s the last one of the series, so let’s take a look!

News Roundup #58

September 16th, 2011 · By Vic · In: Art, Community, Counter-Strike, Creations, Games, General News, Half-Life 2, Industry News, Machinima, Media, News, Other Source, Portal, Portal 2, Site News, Trailers, Valve News, Videos 0

What have we been up to this past week? Well, aside from a bunch of articles, I’ve been putting a lot of work into my Portal 2 review, after I briefly mentioned it in Episode #152 of Podcast 17. It’s becoming more of a critique, or analysis if you will. It should be out shortly. This is why this week’s Roundup is so small!

Janus Syndicate Releases “Counter-Strike: The Movie Trailer” Machinima Parody

September 10th, 2011 · By Vic · In: Art, Community, Counter-Strike, Creations, Games, General News, Machinima, Media, News, Trailers, Videos 2

The Janus Syndicate is one of the oldest and the greatest machinima comedy groups around. It was formed in November of 2005, and it’s the group behind the excellent “Dr. Strangeman“, the hilarious “Counter-Strife: The Noob’s Guide to Counter-Strike” and, of course, the incredible ”Half-Life 2: Anxiety“, which won the Grand Prize of the 2008 Ivy Film Festival.

They went on an extended absence, but returned in late last year, with a number of new videos – “Unfriendly Fire“, “Hearts and Brains” and ”The Garrysmod Secret Agent“, as well as a new episode of the G-Man Squad. But they’ve just released a sort of spiritual successor to one of their most popular videos: “Counter-Strike For Kids“. Read on to check it out!