Reanimated: The 15 Best Machinima Videos Of All Time

If all video-game movies were like this, maybe there would be good video-game movies!

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There is no fan-made creation as unique to videogames as machinima. Part fan film, part software hack, machinima (a word created by mashing together "machine" with "cinema" into an Internet Age portmanteau) is an animated movie made by manipulating the 3D graphics of video games to cinematic effect. Born of recording speed runs and multiplayer matches, the phenomenon came into its own with the release of Quake. Machinimists—both fans and professionals—have since created scores of movies, from comedic shorts and television shows to full-length films. It's only right, then, that we pass judgement and round up our 15 favorite (and certainly the funniest) machinima videos to grace the intarwebs.

By Stu Horvath

15. Diary of a Camper

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14. Make Love, Not Warcraft

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13. Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator

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12. Sanity Not Included

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11. Portal

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10. Time Commanders

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9. The Leet World

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8. Counter-Strike For Kids

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7. Dungeons & Dragons

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6. A Day in the Life of a Turret

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5. It’s a Wonderful Live

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4. Combine Nation

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3. The Trashmaster

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2. Red vs. Blue

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1. A Law-Abiding Engineer

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