Gaming News - October 2006
Menlo Park, CA (October 27, 2006) - Xfire today announced the winners
of their World of Warcraft Summer Movie Contest.
From Xfire:
Xfire tapped into its 5.5 million user base and the millions of World of
Warcraft players for the “World of Warcraft Summer Movie Contest,” welcoming
entrants from around the world to create movies using Blizzard’s wildly popular
World of Warcraft . Five outstanding finalists were selected in each of four
separate categories, and gamers everywhere went to xfire.com to vote for their
favorite Machinima movies.
“Machinima is an extraordinary new art form that allows anybody with time and
talent to create great works of entertainment which can be instantly distributed
to a global audience,” said Mike Cassidy, CEO of Xfire. “The finalist movies
from this contest were already viewed over one million times on Xfire – not a
bad month for an independent movie at the box offices.”
The contest winning movies are outstanding examples of the originality and
creativity behind this exciting, emerging art form. Winners from each category
are as follows:
Best Overall & Best Drama/Action
Jason Choi
The Edge of Remorse
Comedy
Ryan and John Ebenger
The Brother’s Tauren 2
Music Video/Dance
Brandon Dennis
The Anti-Elf Anthem
Short Film
Jun Falkenstein
The Ballad of the Noob
For more details on the competition and to view the finalists and winning
movies, please visit: www.xfire.com/wow
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