Kicking off 2025 with a review of a classic and iconic #machinima by one of the pioneers of the movement, Paul Marino aka ILLRobinson – and its 20 years almost to the day this was released! I’m Still Seeing Breen, made in HL2, holds a special place in our memories from those early years – not only was it a perfect ‘protest piece’ as the feature machinima demonstrating its potential for a 2005 Sundance Film Festival panel discussion (alongside RoosterTeeth’s RVB) but was further developed for MTV2’s Season 2 premiere of its Video Mods TV show later that same year. In this episode, we go over the back story, discuss how this was made and its impact on machinima in general.

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Show Notes & Links

I’m Still Seeing Breen, released 5 March 2005 by Paul Marino

480p broadcast version for MTV2 –

Steam link for HL2 upgrade including Source Filmmaker here

Background information also from the Pioneers in Machinima book, written by Tracy Harwood and Ben Grussi

Paul Marino’s book, published in 2004, available as a free download on the Internet Archive (log-in/account required) here