Anachronox DVDs released!

In 2002, at the very first Machinima Festival, the very first "Best Picture" award was handed out to "Anachronox: The Movie" - a feature-length Machinima based on the game of the same name. Jake "Strider" Hughes, who was its producer and cinematics director, along with Tom Hall, Joey Liaw, Richard Gaubert and others from the disbanded Anox team, created the film from the game's extremely elaborate cutscenes - a futuristic gumshoe trying to save the known universe.

Soon after its release, Jake had teased the Machinima community with a DVD version of the film (which had only been previously available in chunks on Machinima.com), offering Anachronox in full, along with extras. As life has it, the prep of the DVD took some time and Jake moved onto several other game titles which ate up nearly all his free time (one being Whiplash!, the 2005 Mackies entry that gave Jake a Best Director award).

Cut to September 2006: Jake announces that he's finally posted the Anox DVDs for those interested to download. You can find the two DVD iso torrents at Jake's site:

• Anachronox: The Movie - DVD 01 (4.20 gb)
• Anachronox: The Movie - DVD 02 (3.97 gb)

While Anox's graphics might feel a bit dated (it is based on a modified Quake 2 engine, which originally debuted in 1998), the work still holds its own with great voice acting, a compelling script and excellent direction. I encourage those that are not bandwidth/storage space adverse to download while the ISOs are available.