On June 28, Rooster Teeth Productions published the final episode ever of the beloved Halo machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. Halo fans across the galaxy mourned as the 100th episode, with three alternate endings, brought an end to the hilarious adventures of Red and his inept crew of Spartans. According to creator Burnie Burns and his cohorts, there would be no more RvB.
They lied.
The cloying stench of filthy lucre has lured the Rooster Teeth guys back to the RvB trough. New episodes, created in Halo 3, will be streamed on the Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, GameStop, and Wal-Mart websites.
In anticipation of the big launch of Halo 3 in September, a five-episode special edition of Red vs. Blue will premiere at participating retail websites starting on Tuesday, July 31. The episodes feature Sarge preparing Donut, Simmons, and the rest of his soldiers for the upcoming move from Halo 2 into Halo 3.
Red vs. Blue is a pioneering video series created by Rooster Teeth that uses Halo characters to act out a continuing story. The animation is created in real-time by using a video game engine to power the visuals. Graham Leggat of the San Francisco film society dubbed Red vs. Blue the “first masterpiece of machinima.” This very popular “machinima” series, which has a huge online following, spans five seasons and 100 episodes, and it portrays the adventures of two groups of rather unwilling soldiers in an isolated canyon called Blood Gulch.
With clever dialogue and engaging characters, the series has won four awards from the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences. Rooster Teeth also created the machinima series 1-800-MAGIC, based on the world of Shadowrun. Episodes of Red vs. Blue are available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, or you can find out more by visiting their official site.
Isn’t it great how PR flacks can take something cool and make it sound tedious?
