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Dell announces machinima contest to win a XPS M1730 WoW Edition laptop
Earlier today, I posted a huge roundup of links to get you started on your first machinima, or just polish your current work. The reason behind that post was to announce the incredible contest that Dell is having! They're offering up not one, but two systems as prizes, but I'm getting ahead of myself. WoW Insider is lucky enough to have two of their staffers, Dan O'Halloran and myself, as judges for this event.How to enter: Download the Dell XPS asset package from their site. Create a World of Warcraft machinima under 3 minutes long that features their system. Upload the video to YouTube and put it in this post on their forum. The submission deadline is September 23rd, 2008 by 11:59pm EST. The prizes: Grand Prize: Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition laptop Second Prize: Alienware desktop, Dell monitor, and Logitech gaming mouse, keyboard, and surround sound system Third Prize: Complete first series of World of Warcraft action figures, plus a Logitech gaming mouse and keyboard Read on for the fine print and some things you should know before entering ...
About the Bloggers: moo Money
Twice a week, our writers will tell you more about themselves, and let you get to know them and the characters they play a little better. Click here to read more About the Bloggers.What do you do for WoW Insider?I write the daily machinima posts for both WoW Insider, and its broader MMO sister site, Massively.What's your main right now?This won't make me very popular, but I actually don't really play WoW. I did for a while after it came out, but I'm not a very good grinder and it just got lonely.This is an outrage! How dare you write about WoW without playing it?That's actually a really good question. I got my start in machinima roughly two years ago when I was hired to promote it in Second Life, an oft-mocked virtual world. Through experimentation with machinima, as well as the education that I provided to others, I became known as one of the "It" people for machinima in SL. When Second Life Insider folded into Massively in November 2007, I volunteered to write the daily Cinemassively. After about 45 days straight of blogging them, WI asked me to do the same for WoW Moviewatch!Read on to find out more about the Notorious M.O.O. ...
