If you’re one of the people who is worried about the direction that Rooster Teeth is taking with their Red vs Blue series (moving away from purely in-game footage, adding animated CG), you might want to watch the most recent episode of Jeskid TV. Jeskid is a long-time RvB fan with a web TV show, and Episode 61 has an interview with Burnie Burns and Monty Oum about where Rooster Teeth is going. It’s a fascinating interview that ranges from how RT has grown to how the internet has changed to how you monetize web content – but there are chunks that should reassure fans of the old-school machinima stuff RT does. They’re definitely branching out – live action, pure cg stuff, and more – but Red vs Blue is still focused on making the most of the Halo engine, while remaining true to its original limitations. As Burnie says, “it wouldn’t be honest to Red vs Blue” if the characters suddenly became “awesome Kung-Fu fighters”. Part of the fun, after all, are those limitations.(Louis Wu 15:35:23 UTC)

I would like to apologize for not mentioning yesterday that Rooster Teeth planned to stream the first 3.5 episodes of the new season of Red vs Blue live to sponsors – it was a one-time-only deal. (They were doing a show at the Alamo Draft House at the same time.) Turns out, it didn’t go quite as well as expected (those guys are simply too popular these days), so if you DID watch it, you might have found yourself a bit frustrated… but never fear; the same content will be released weekly, both to sponsors and the general public. In fact, Episode 1 of Red vs Blue: Revelation is now online for everyone. It continues the storyline from Recreation, and promises some serious advances in machinima as the season continues. It rocks!(Louis Wu 14:27:55 UTC)

dCon V pointed out a one-time deal at Tee Fury today; $9 plus shipping for a Halo/Mario mashup t-shirt. (Tee Fury’s deal is one shirt, per day, then it’s gone. Buy it now, or buy it never.) Because it’ll probably not be visible if you read this after the day it’s posted, the shirt image is here.(Louis Wu 14:26:12 UTC)

Taco Power stopped into our forum to announce Tsieh She, a “celebration of an average player having an above average day” – it’s a fun, mellow montage showing off clips we’re ALL capable of, from time to time. It’s not MLGPro gameplay – but most of us can probably connect with this level better, anyway. Go watch!(Louis Wu 14:25:22 UTC)

Four new pieces up for your reading pleasure in the Fan Fiction section this week. One of those pieces, Halo Clairvoyance Chapter 5, has some additional content described in this forum post. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:25:01 UTC)

Podtacular is doing a 3-part special farewell to Halo 2 – the first part is up already. Part two will be recording Monday – and will feature Foo Mo Jive, returning to say goodbye to an old favorite. If you’d like to recount your favorite stories from Halo 2, you need to send submissions to submissions@podtacular.com before Monday.(Louis Wu 14:24:31 UTC)

Kombo.com started up an article series they call ‘Out of Reach’ – it’s full of things they’re hoping to get out of Halo: Reach. (Geddit? Out of Reach? Geddit?) Part 1 went up on Monday (we missed it, sorry), Part 2 is live today. They’re expecting to post Part 3 tomorrow.(Louis Wu 21:42:54 UTC)