Two articles in the BBC on machinima:

Machinima waits to go mainstream by Peter Price

The Machinima festival was held in Leicester

Falling somewhere between film, animation and gaming, machinima is the art of producing films using graphics rendered by computer games.

Hot picks: Machinima by Tracy Harwood

Manager Machinima Festival Europe 07

The Festival was the first in Europe dedicated to machinima
Machinima is a medium that has come of age….