BloodSpell Press

We've been lucky enough to garner quite a bit of press attention over the past few years - here are all the articles and comments we know of!

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Press Articles

The Making Of Machinima (The Guardian)
BloodSpell on Wikipedia
BloodSpell on Boingboing.net and More BoingBoing.net
BoingBoing on our MPAA/FACT pisstake.
Profile of BloodSpell on Bioware.com - interview with Hugh on the release.
WIP report on BloodSpell at Bioware.com
The Making of BloodSpell part 1, part 2, part 3 at Bioware.com - interviews with the crew.
Des Machinima-Filmepos erster Teil zum freien Download on Gulli.com
BloodSpell: Abend füllender Fantasy-Film in Spielegrafik on Netzwelt.de
BloodSpell on SuicideGirls (boy, were we pleased about this one!)
BloodSpell on URLWire
Great big group project - BloodSpell on USAToday's TechSpace blog
BloodSpell Spotlight on NWVault
Numerous articles on BloodSpell over at 3dFilmmaker
BloodSpell on OpenBusiness.cc
Propping Up Some Successes on Paul Marino's blog
BloodSpell: Machinima-Animationsfilm unter CC on Netzpolitik.de
Indie fantasy movie 'Bloodspell' released on Regional Film and Video
BloodSpell Machinima Goth Funks It Up on GameSetWatch
Profile of Hugh and BloodSpell writeup
Making Machinima on Filmmaker Magazine's blog
Review of BloodSpell over at RPG.net
BloodSpell reviews on Episodes 8 and 9 of Machinima Live.
Review of BloodSpell Episode 1 on SciFi UK.
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of ArsGeek's HOW-TO on burning BloodSpell to DVD.
BloodSpell - The Machinima You Wish You Could Make on GayGamer.net
BloodSpell on the Forbidden Planet blog
Author Alan Campbell on BloodSpell.
Review of BloodSpell Ep 1-6 on The English Assassin and follow-up review of Ep 7 and 8.
BloodSpell: Bigger Than Jesus, according to The Overcast.
The Leipzig Controversy: BoingBoing, Greg Costikyan, Blue's News, 3D Filmmaker, Yigg.de, Xirdalium, Digg, Machinima Premiere (oddly, Machinima.com didn't report), Sorcerer's Place, and more.
The Daily Telegraph on BloodSpell
Animation World Network on BloodSpell's release
BloodSpell Episode 8 reviewed on, er, The Machinima Review.
Hugh and BloodSpell are quoted and referenced, respectively, in The Escapist
We were featured on Creativecommons.org, although I seem to have lost the link.
Ricky Grove writes a retrospective on the work of Phil Rice, BloodSpell sound designer and Machinima genius, including quite a bit on BloodSpell.
3D Filmmaker on Episodes 12 and 13.
iCommons talked about us in their round-up of Creative Commons feature films.
We got Dugg.
Regarde.org also said some very nice things that I can nearly understand.
Belligerati described us as Machinima Worth Watching
Gulli wrote up a piece on us, which has been very popular.
Cory at BoingBoing wrote up our final episode, describing now as "the perfect time" to watch BloodSpell. Thanks, Cory!
SimonC over at GameSetWatch reported that BloodSpell has splattered to an end.
Joe Gordon at Forbidden Planet reported on our final ep - and I'll get round to that interview soon, Joe, I promise!
And the final episode is reviewed (and very nice things said) in the latest episode of The Machinima Review.
BloodSpell on the Neverwinter Nights Podcast
French blogger Pickiboon raved about BloodSpell.
Matt "Swarm of Angels" Hanson said some very nice things about us over at Eternal Gaze.
BloodSpell on Italian site Cinetma.org.
Ben King, writer for More Four, introduces Machinima with BloodSpell as his top example.
Channel 4's More Four features BloodSpell.
Free Pixel talks about cultural influences in Machinima, citing BloodSpell.
Hrej.cz on BloodSpell.
The infamous drunken Overcast podcast, this being Part 1 discussing BloodSpell.
WowInsider interview with Johnnie and Hugh talking about BloodSpell, Machinima for Dummies and more.
BBC.co.uk article on Machinima for the Machinima Europe festival including a pretty extensive mention of BloodSpell
Digital Planet Podcast including an interview with Hugh and Johnnie.

Other Offline Press

CNN Europe, September 2005
The List Edinburgh, September 2005
Radio Cafe, BBC Radio, May 2005
SFX Magazine, June 2006
Hi-Tech Scotland, August 2006
PC Plus Magazine, September 2006
Imagine Magazine, September 2006
The Daily Telegraph, September 2006
Digital Planet, BBC World Service, October 2007

Shows and Appearances

Cameo Edinburgh, October 2005
Bradford Animation Festival, November 2005
Machinima Film Festival, November 2005
FMX, May 2006 (Audioblog)
Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, August 2006
RvBTO, Toronto, August 2006
Leipzig Games Conference, August 2006
Medienwoche Berlin, August 2006
Spectrum Festival, Edinburgh, October 2006
Savannah Film Festival, November 2006
Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg, November 2006
Machinima Film Festival, New York, November 2006
Brazilian International Free Software Forum, April 2007
Art In Games at Abertay University, May 2007
Pompidou Center, Paris, May 2007
Annecy International Animated Film Festival, June 2007
SiliCon San Jose, October 2007
Machinima Europe Festival, Leicester, October 2007
Arcadia, Montreal,November 2007
Glasgow Games Society Convention, February 2008

Awards and nominations

Nomination: Best Machinima Movie - GameShadow Innovation In Games Awards
Nominations: Best Series, Best Technical Achievement - Machinima Film Festival 2006
Best Machinima July 2006 - Sims 99
Movie of the Month, July 2006 - Machinima Premiere
Movie of the Month, August 2006 - Machinima Premiere
Movie of the Month, October 2006 - Machinima Premiere
Movie of the Month, December 2006 - Machinima Premiere
Movie of the Season, Q4 2006 - Machinima Premiere
Movie of the Year (Bronze), 2006-2007 - Machinima Premiere
Nominations: Best Series, Best Technical Achievement - Machinima Europe
Gold Medal Winner, Best Technical Achievement, Online Machinima Film Festival 2007.
Gold Medal Winner, Best Custom Content, Online Machinima Film Festival 2007.
Silver Medal Winner, Best Series, Online Machinima Film Festival 2007.