yes, machinimag will fall asleep for now.
With so many new quality websites devoted to machinima, it's now time for me to shift focus from infrastructure work to actual filmmaking.
The rss feeds and old magazine issues will remain up.
Thanks for all the support i had in the two years of machinimags existence!

as taken from the official festival website:

Best Picture
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
KBS Productions

Best Direction
Edge of Remorse
Jason I. Choi

Best Virtual Performance: Puppeteering
Tra5h Ta1k
The ILL Clan

Best Virtual Performance: Custom Animation
Company of Heroes
Relic Studios

Best Voice-Acting Performance
Deviation
Hardlight Films

Best Visual Design
Edge of Remorse
Riot Films

Best Cinematography
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
KBS Productions

Best Original Music
Stolen Life
Phillip Johnston

Best Sound Design
Deviation
Neil Fazzari, Tom Efinger, John Moros

Best Writing
Male Restroom Etiquette
Phil Rice

Best Editing
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
Bertrand Le Cabec, Frederic Servant

Best Technical Achievement
Company of Heroes

Relic Studios

Best Commercial Machinima

Silver Bells and Golden Spurs

Eric Call

Best Independent Machinima
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
KBS Productions


Best Off-the-Shelf Machinima
Just A Game
Mu Productions

Best Machinima Series
The Fixer
Todd Stallkamp

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

from the Gamasutra article:
"All the per-pixel lighting, dynamic shadows, normal maps, and motion capture of Madden '07 has actually degraded the emotional connection players had with previous versions of the game -- 1 step forward, 2 steps back."

read more here.

The Bitfilm festival just announced the winners of the 2006 Bitfilm Awards.
The award for best Machinima movie goes to...

"The Days After" by André Pesch (Germany/USA)

Congratulations!

(Note: information comes from the Bitfilm newsletter. Website is not updated yet.)