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Some enterprising World of Warcraft players have recreated the opening to Battlestar Galactica using graphics and scenes from the game in a machinima video that ain't half bad. Gnomes, Cylons ... what's not to love? Although it really makes me jones for the show to return to the airwaves that much faster. When is a network going to finally get the right idea and put on an entire machinima show? When Red vs. Blue comes to television, then I'll stop ranting. Until then, enjoy a little BSG in your WSG.

Apologies to those of you who have never played WoW, as this won't make much sense. Just embrace the Battlestar love and run with it.

If you were wondering just how the South Park team went about getting all of the WoW game footage for their "Make Love Not Warcraft" episode, machinima.com has the details. They did a rather detailed interview with three members of the team that put the episode together.

The idea for a MMO story had actually been kicking around for some time, but was initially shelved due to the technical aspects of it. Once they finally decided to go with the WoW episode, it took three times as long to do the WoW footage as a normal South Park episode. And that was with full cooperation from the fine folks at Blizzard. It's an interesting read for South Park fans, WoW fans, or anyone interested in machinima. And if none of that works for you, you can still go watch Red vs. Blue, because that's just good comedy.

[ via slashdot ]

Last week, I put in my two cents on what I thought was the biggest story of 2005; the convergence of TV and the internet. As I said in the article, 2005 may have been the launching point, but it's only going to get bigger and better from here on out. So here we are, one week later and three days into the new year, and we already have our first great example. Terry Semel, a former Warner Bros head, is now in charge of Yahoo's new media department and is banking on their new video on demand service. So much so, that they've in fact just recorded a pilot for a new show called Wow House that will air exclusively there. In the show, two families will compete by decking their homes out with new "tech" (hi-def, surround sound, home automation). The two houses will then be voted on and the winners will get to keep all the swag. Geez, what a tease if you lose... Let me know what you think.