This blog and its writer, yours truly, has always been a fan of machinima. For the benefit of those who don’t know what the heck machinima is, the terms stands for “machine-animation” or “machine-cinema” and, to borrow the definition of the first machinima film festival on my side of the pond, “utilizes widely popular videogames such as Grand Theft Auto, World of Warcraft, etc. to produce short films and music videos, using avatars and characters as actors, and the maps and locations of the game as setting.”
So imagine my surprise—and excitement—when friend and fellow online games enthusiast PJ Punla informed …read more

Where we left off: Our young heroes are reunited after a spat when Mr. Obnoxious, also known as THEGREATESTEVER or simply TGE, discovers that Pudding beat him in changing into the first job in the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game Fly For Fun.
In the fourth installment of the hit machinima based on Flyff, we find Pudding and TGE beating the crap out of Wagsaacs outside Saint Mourning as they continue their adventures after changing into their first jobs—Mercenary for Pudding and Assist for TGE. Of course, THEGREATESTEVER is still clueless about how his job class works, mostly due to …read more

I’ve stumbled upon this video on YouTube featuring United States President Barack Obama, or a likeness thereof, in a machinima based on the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game Aion, and it’s hilarious! Actually, I’ve known about it for quite some time, but haven’t had opportunity to view it.
Go check out President Obama in Aion:
If the video is indeed based on Aion, it shows a lot in terms of the versatility of the game’s engine. Can’t wait to play it … that is, if I can.

I hate THEGREATESTEVER. He’s the very epitome of the noob player who thinks he knows more than others. Oh, wait, you don’t know who THEGREATESTEVER is. Okay, let me sum it up for you.
THEGREATESTEVER (grrr, hate all-caps names, even in-game ones) is the main character in a machinima series based on the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game Fly For Fun, or Flyff. The guy starts out fine, just like any new player out for a little adventure. His problems (or rather the viewers’ problem with him) starts when he begins idolizing Lee, a narcissist hell-bent to prove himself the …read more

I’m starting to love machinima—short for machine cinema—especially after viewing and reviewing this year’s entries to the Level Up! Live Film Festival. Well, we’re not here to critique those, for they already belong to the been-there, done-that files because they’ve been watched and talked about dozens if not hundreds of times already … at least locally, in the Philippines.
So I turned my attention to the Internet, poring over dozens of machinima videos that would fit the bill, for MMOtaku, that is. And I’ve found one of the best Fly For Fun-based machinima, Pudding and THEGREATESTEVER.
Here’s Episode 1. Take a gander …read more