When I was in Austin last month for the Women's Game Conference, I heard about a machinima series (or independent animated cinema created from and within computer games) called Red vs. Blue created with XBox uber-game Halo. Everyone raved about it so I had to check it out. It is rather incredible, and blindingly funny.
But the big news isn't this ol' news, but the announcement at /. that they're going to be building a new sitcom from the Sims 2 world called "The Strangerhood". You can see a clip of it here.
The folks who're behind it have made a bit of a name for themselves, and they're going to be at this weekend's resfest, a digital film festival in London. I'm booking my place on the Sunday event "Filmmaking and gaming, Gaming and Filmmaking" at the NFT and may kick around a little bit earlier for Bushwacked! shorts.
Hopefully the RvB boys will show off some of their latest Halo-based series (there are two thus far and another one on the way) in the manner it was meant to be shown – on the big screen.
Woo hoo! Culture!
