by John Carle, Jan 30 2014 // 8:00 AM

Tomorrow, a new Free-To-Play FPS takes the field to take on the king of the hill, Team Fortress 2. There are a lot of the same sensibilities and even certain aspects of the art style that can be seen in both Loadout and Team Fortress 2 but Loadout looks to deliver a much more over the top and immaturely “mature” experience. Loadout will be releasing tomorrow on Steam for PC.
As you’ll see in the trailer below (or if you watched any of their Let’s Play footage), the team from Rooster Teeth can’t help but fill the internet with their foul mouths when playing Loadout. The game lends itself to it so naturally.
With over 44,000,000 combinations of weapons that can be created and mashed together, it’s hard not to swear when you see your character survive an explosion that has blown most of their face off or left a hole clear in the center of their chest.
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Tagged: Burnie Burns, Edge of Reality, FPS, Games, Loadout, PC, PC Games, Rooster Teeth, Steam
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by John Carle, Aug 9 2013 // 8:00 AM

No need to sugarcoat it. Every one of us has our guilty pleasures. For some its watching a cartoon that was never really that good. For others it is dumping tons of cash on a new collectible.
And for some of us, it is watching and enjoying something we know we shouldn’t. Rage Quit, which is available on the Rooster Teeth YouTube channel, is one such example. In essence, there is nothing I should like about watching episodes of Rage Quit. High pitched screaming and hordes of swearing while watching someone else fail at a game. Why would that be entertaining?
It’s not because of maturity. It’s not because of a cheap laugh. It’s because Michael Jones represents how so many of us feel but doesn’t have to hold it in. For the most part, I want to scream at my screen and flip the hell out as a game gets more and more frustrating. And often the more frustrating it gets, the louder I want to scream. But I don’t.
I don’t because I don’t want my roommate to complain or my parents to kick me out of the house or the girl I am seeing to think I am a lunatic. So I just turn the game off. Imagine all that pent up rage with the inability to turn a game off because you know at minimum your video needs to be at least five minutes of useable footage. Enter Rage Quit.
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Tagged: Let's Play, Michael Jones, Mogar, My Guilty Pleasure, Rooster Teeth, The Impossible Game, The Internet, XBLA, Xbox 360, YouTube
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by John Carle, Jun 18 2013 // 10:00 AM

A few years ago, we used to watch Machinima, original content created using game engines and screen captures. Red vs. Blue became the quintessential example of it, taking assets from Halo and creating completely new stories unrelated to the lore of the game. These days, game capture software has led to a newer and simpler concept that dominates the world of YouTube: Let’s Play.
The popularity of Let’s Play is an intriguing concept. People watch for hours on their computer as another person plays a game. Usually there is commentary from the player over it and in some cases there’s a webcam capturing the visual reactions of the player.
These Let’s Players aren’t even particularly skilled players as much as they are personalities. Amazingly, some of these Let’s Players have become the top earners on YouTube.
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Tagged: Let's Play, Pewdiepie, Red vs. Blue, Rooster Teeth, Video Games, YouTube
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by Sebastian Suchecki, Mar 29 2011 // 9:00 AM
It’s fun when we can laugh about a totally unreal scenario where a popular iPhone or Android video game gets adapted into a big budget film. Unfortunately, the window between us laughing at a satirical fan trailer and the film getting actually produced is quite small.
While we’ve got the time, we can still laugh at what the guys at Rooster Teeth (the folks who made Red Vs. Blue one of the most popular things amongst boys 18-35) put together in honor of the popular strategy game featuring birds and green pigs.
Some great cinematic spoofs in here as well, as Michael Bay and just about any disaster movie of the 90’s is a target in this short but sweet fan film.
Check it out after the jump, and let’s all pray that we’re years away from this trailer becoming a reality.
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Tagged: Angry Birds, Chillingo, Fan Films, Red vs. Blue, Rooster Teeth
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by John Carle, Sep 17 2010 // 7:00 AM
It’s hard to talk about video games and not mention the Halo franchise. Constantly breaking records and taking names, Halo is a system selling behemoth of a property for the XBox 360. It was one of the games so popular, that it would go on to spawn multiple Machinima series, animated shorts created using assets from the respective games. These included everything from Phil to Arby ‘n’ The Chief to what may be the most famous Machinima ever, Red vs. Blue.
Smartly coinciding the release of the 8th season of Red vs. Blue entitled Revalation and the Recollection three disc set with the release of Halo: Reach, Rooster Teeth helps provide Halo fanboys with more Halo than they can handle in the biggest week of their gaming year.
The Recollection contains the second full story arc of the Red vs. Blue universe. Not a part of any official Halo canon, Red vs. Blue takes aspects of the game world never explained like the constant fighting in multiplayer of the different Spartans and tries to explain it. Taken with a grain of salt, the story even gets a little meta and makes a viewer step back and wonder how much applies to them. But for the most part, there is just lots of great comedic moments and swearing over a finely animated and even dramatic story.
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Tagged: DVD, DVD Reviews, Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: Reach, Machinima, Microsoft, Red vs. Blue, Red vs. Blue: Season 6 "Reconstruction", Red vs. Blue: Season 7 "Recreation", Red vs. Blue: Season 8 "Revelation", Rooster Teeth
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