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Now here is some good news for those of you who have already dropped good money for the Xbox One, waiting for it to launch later this coming November. It has been announced that Machinima will roll out an “exclusive experience” on the Xbox One this November 22nd, and in a video that is depicted in the link at the end of the story, it demonstrated how Machinima will make use of Xbox One Snap in order to deliver a great Snap experience that they have dubbed as the “Machinima Wingman.”

This will be a new and improved Machinima app, where it will gleefully take advantage of the Xbox One platform capabilities so that gamers will be able to enjoy an unparalleled experience that cannot be found anywhere else – or so it is claimed. The Xbox 360 experience has ranked as one of the most popular and highest performing apps on the platform to date, so the Machinima team is highly excited when it comes to delivering more of the same – albeit better experiences, with the Xbox One. I guess for all of us regular gamers, words cannot describe the experience well enough, even after watching the video, as it has to be something that one will need to sit through him or herself to get the full gist of it. [Press Release]

Machinima To Launch On Xbox One This November 22nd original content from Ubergizmo.

When Microsoft piled on the Xbox media channels last year, we didn’t realize just how long it would take for some of those channels to come to fruition. We’re quite possibly on the cusp of new hardware, and Machinima’s app is just now making its Xbox 360 debut. Still, it might be worth the wait for those who live and breathe gaming even after they’ve set down the gamepad. The app includes the full suite of Machinima channels and their associated videos, ranging from regular shows and specials through to game blooper reels. Machinima is available everywhere Xbox Live is active; if that isn’t enough to tide you over, Microsoft is teasing the reveal of a OneBeat electronic music app next month.

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Creating machinima with a video game engine usually requires accepting one of two truths: either that it will require a lot of fudging or that it will have all the sophistication of playing with action figures. Valve Software isn’t very happy with that dichotomy, which is why it’s posting its very own movie-making tool, Source Filmmaker, as a public beta. Any game that runs on the Source engine, whether it’s Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2 or another in the family, can have gameplay run-throughs edited and dissected right down to custom facial expressions. As Valve expounds in the video after the break, throwing a gaming-grade PC at the task gives directors the advantage of seeing exactly how any changes will look in the final scene; there’s no rough wireframes or pre-rendering here. Budding Francis Ford Coppolas can sign up for an invitation to the Filmmaker beta at the project page. If you’d just like to see how far someone can go with the end results, we’ve also included the latest Team Fortress 2 character profile video, Meet the Pyro, after the jump.

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