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At present time in actual life in film and virtually in-game, Oso, Lis, and Edvin are playing online video games, while Alban is programing. They are part of the new gaming subculture. What is their experience as they dwell in the online world? What can be felt through gaming and what can be thought of its purpose? The film is an extract of a larger ethnography on digital cultures and games.

In the Year 2016, Resistance fighter Blair Williams embarks on a deadly mission to search for a threat that is weakening humanity's defense against the self-aware artificial intelligence called Skynet and it's lethal Terminators.

Online games and virtual worlds like World of Warcraft and Second Life are characterized by their own economy and have an in-world currency, which in some cases can be converted into ‘real’ money and thus generate income that can be used outside. World of Warcraft specifically relies on an economy of virtual gold which can be used to acquire, among others, weapons and equipment. This nascent economy has spawned specialized companies and workshops, especially in China where employees – so-called ‘Chinese gold farmers’ work day and night in order to produce currency, equipment and even whole characters to sell to other players in the United States and Europe. UBERMORGEN . COM explores and documents this phenomenon in the project ‘Chinese Gold’, which gathers texts, found footage and re-appropriated prints. The video ‘Machinima No. 0’ is lo-res found footage from video . google . com, showcasing a teleportation hack in World of Warcraft, repeated over and over by Chinese gold farmers.

When a UNSC issued simulation computer gets infiltrated by an unknown soldier, the spartan heroes of Bravo team must reunite with their Machinima allies to face a new evil lurking in the shadows. Sequel to the hit movie "Bravo: Machinimas United" (2016).

Set in the Saxon-era archipelago once where Oxford now stands, “Where the Mouth” is (re)builds Oxfordshire as an interactive world outside of time, leaping off from the collections of the public Museum of Oxford. You are let loose in the swampy terrain to observe the local tradition of ‘beating the bounds’ – marking parish boundary stones with a stick in order to embed them in the memory of the town’s residents. The mouth of that collective memory has issued many truths, half-truths, desires, cries, anecdotes, apocryphal stories, and tiny reminders of a future from the past. Originally commissioned by the Museum of Oxford and Digital Artist Residency, with later support from Bloomberg New Contemporaries Digital Fellowships; Soundtrack by Peter Talisman (Slugabed and Samuel Organ) as mixed from their 2021 album ‘Lord of the Harvest’; Movement/ motion capture performance by Anya Sirina; Special thanks to Tom Milnes.

Visionary director Quentin Tarantino had a dream of a Kill Bill chapter that never made it to the silver screen, a chapter known as "Yuki's Revenge." Over twenty years later, Tarantino and Epic have come together to bring the story to life in Fortnite.

Markarth is shaken awake by a strange sight: a colossal dragon calmly seated in the middle of the town square. Initially assumed to be a threat, the townsfolk panic and report it to King Erik. In response, he dispatches the kingdom’s finest — Dragon Slayer Xander — to eliminate the creature. But things aren’t as simple as they seem. As Xander prepares to strike, the mother dragon’s children emerge from hiding, revealing that this wasn’t an invasion — it was a family seeking refuge. Before anyone can act further, the town is suddenly stormed by aliens, throwing the entire narrative off course.

After an AI robot on an asteroid mining facility disappears under mysterious circumstances the company sends an investigator.

Stranded is a short horror survival machinima created by Alvin Soprano, made using The Sims 2: Castaway. After a shipwreck, a Sim regains consciousness on a remote tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He begins to gather supplies, search for shelter, and attempt to send signals for help. But as time passes, eerie signs begin to emerge — strange carvings in the rocks, whispers in the jungle, and footsteps that don't belong to him. As his grip on reality begins to slip, the Sim must face the possibility that the island isn’t uninhabited — and that something is watching him.

Sanctuary Hills is a 24-minute animated machinima drama created using Fallout 4 and Blender. Set during the final hours of the Sino-American War, the film follows the Washingtons, the only Black family in a gated community, who are denied access to the nuclear vault they paid for due to government-enforced racial discrimination. As the bombs fall, they are left to die—only to survive through a horrific mutation caused by radiation. Transformed and enraged, the Washingtons return to claim vengeance on the community that betrayed them.

This horror machinima short by Alvin Soprano tells the story of little Lucy walking in on her recently deceased mother crossing over to the light.

Set in the ruins of the Capital Wasteland, the story follows Lars, a wandering scavenger who arrives in the fragile settlement of Megaton, only to find the town already teetering on the edge of collapse. After a cryptic encounter with a disfigured preacher and an uneasy alliance with a local mercenary, Lars is approached by a stranger offering him caps to detonate the bomb at the town’s center.

A low-level hitman Ceasar Rodriguez wakes up in the passenger seat of a blood-soaked car with no memory of how he got there. Beside him, the driver is dead. The streets of Liberty City are empty, but his sins are not. Haunted by visions of the people he’s killed — and the person he used to be — he stumbles through a night filled with paranoia, betrayal, and bloody flashbacks. Each clue he uncovers leads him deeper into a conspiracy that may or may not be real. He sees faces from his past. Hears voices that aren't there. Fights enemies he can't prove exist.

Lilith Marek doesn’t remember the man’s face. She only remembers the alley, the darkness, and the sensation of dying. After surviving a brutal sexual assault that left her unconscious and transformed into a vampire, Lilith wakes up changed — body, blood, and soul. But she doesn’t run. She doesn’t hide. She hunts.

As an online roleplaying game faces shutdown, two teens decide to transcend the pixels that once held them apart.

STARVED is a post-apocalyptic psychological horror machinima by Alvin Soprano, created in Fallout 3. Set in the desolate ruins of the Capital Wasteland, the film explores the descent into madness of a lone survivor trapped in an abandoned metro tunnel — cut off from food, light, and hope. After a supply run gone wrong, a scavenger named Joanna Creek finds herself trapped beneath the city in a collapsed metro tunnel. Her radio is dead, her flashlight battery fading, and all exits are sealed. Days pass. Hunger gnaws. Water runs out. Rats scurry, but offer no salvation.

Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

Two college couples, Pierre and Sophie, and Frank and Maddison, who seek a relaxing retreat at an Airbnb in rural Cornwall, Connecticut. Their host, Jonah, possesses an unsettling demeanor and provides a curious warning about a locked basement. What begins as a pleasant escape quickly devolves into a struggle for survival as the group confronts an insidious force stemming from the forbidden basement and a broken mirror. As the possessed girls turn on their friends, the couples are drawn into a terrifying ordeal that culminates in the shocking revelation of Jonah's involvement in a continuing, dark ritual.

In the foggy town of Hemlock Springs, a string of animalistic killings has left the townspeople terrified. Caroline (Alvin Soprano), a sarcastic high school senior with a love for B-movies, starts to suspect something supernatural when her classmate Donnie (Victorius Kingston) begins acting extra weird… even for a teenage boy.

The film takes place in Sunset Valley during a sudden undead uprising. As the town falls into chaos, most residents go into hiding. But Brittany, a teenage girl home alone while her parents vacation for their 20th anniversary, chooses a different path. Devastated by the loss of her boyfriend Chad — who died just two months prior in a car accident — Brittany gears up with her father’s tools and sets out to the town cemetery. Convinced that Chad might have been among the reanimated dead, her mission is not survival, but reunion.

Set near the cursed Hellfrozeover Lake, the story centers on Billy Bob (Zachary Chambers), a reclusive and mentally impaired man who stalks young campers engaging in premarital sex. Raised by his puritanical and deeply traumatized mother (Belinda Soprano), Billy was taught that sex is evil and that his disability is a divine punishment for his mother’s own non-consensual encounter with a family member.

Truck driver Teddy's late night stop at a gas station takes a dark turn when he meets the mysterious hooker Katerina, leading to unexpected consequences.

The story follows Hermia Summerdream, a young woman plagued by a recurring dream of a forest she’s never visited and voices that echo in languages she doesn’t speak. As the veil between sleep and waking life begins to erode, Hermia becomes increasingly drawn to the ruins at the edge of Veronaville — ruins said to be cursed by the spirits of wronged lovers.

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.

Desperate to lose weight, Chloe stumbles upon an infomercial for "MagicSlim," an all natural herbal supplement that promises effortless weight loss. Ignoring the strange warning about lighting accompanying candles, she eagerly drinks the smoothies, only to wake up dramatically thinner overnight. As the pounds melt away at an alarming rate, an eerie presence begins lurking in the shadows, growing closer each night. Unaware that she is being devoured by a sinister force, Chloe soon realizes too late that her dream body has come at the ultimate price.

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