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What’s a Sci-Fi film school, a festival, and movie making software got to do with games?

I’m not sure myself, but Moviestorm - the company sponsoring Sci-Fi London’s film festival is offering it’s software free to anyone attending Sci-Fi London Film School and Matt Kelland, the “Creative Director” of Short Fuze will introduce the software to the audience attending the Sci-Fi London festival.

John O’ Boyle- CSMO for Moviestorm added
“This is a key sponsorship for us as we will be making several announcements to coincide with the Festival. Science fiction is hugely popular with amateur movie-makers, but it’s quite daunting to shoot an SF movie with real actors. Machinima is a great way to enable amateur movie-makers to shoot SF, because you can easily make use of costumes, environments and effects that would otherwise be way beyond most budgets. This film challenge will really unleash people’s creativity and enable both novices and more experienced film-makers to venture into all sorts of new territory.”

Moviestorm’s software is based on game technology and uses a game-style interface. With the software, the company claims that you can make a movie in 15 minutes.

Check out the Sci-Fi London festival which opens Wed, April 30 through Sun, May 4. Check out Sci-Fi London for more details.

That’s right folk, Microsoft is now offering the once costly emulator for game developers to test out HD-DVD via a USB connection of an external drive or networked PC.

The once costly emulator which Microsoft was selling for $2999 is now being offered for FREE!!!

Now that Toshiba has all but given up support for the HD-DVD format, I’m guessing Microsoft is offering the emulator free as it’s still a good program for testing out programs for the Xbox 360.

For those developers that have purchased the emulator, they are in luck, Microsoft will refund the purchase of the program.

For more details, check out A Dullard’s Guide.

Several sites are raving about God of War: Chains of Olympus coming to the PSP and how they are dusting off the old PSP systems to get ready to play this popular game.

The PSP version will be released March 7, 2008 and is rated M for Mature content.

The game is about a human Godslayer that must now once again heed the commands of the gods to go to the underworld to fight the most feared creatures of Greek mythology. Will he choose redemption or save the world?

What I’m hoping for is a newer version of “God of War” or any other games for the PS3 that will let me play the game, live, on my PSP as well as allowing for the PSP to download portions of the PS3 game to be played, away from the PS3 and it’s WiFi connection with the capabilities to re-sync with the PS3 when you are back within connection range to upload your stats and download newer content or play directly back from the PS3, etc…

One can dream…