How Rooster Teeth expanded beyond Red vs. Blue to the Roost Podcast Network

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2021
Updated June 20, 2025
15 min

Rooster Teeth cut its teeth in 2003 with Red Vs. Blue, a funny machinima show that used red and blue Master Chief characters from the Halo games. The creators added funny voices and dialogue to the game characters and turned them into animated short videos.

Eighteen years later, Warner Media’s Rooster Teeth is still making episodes of Red vs. Blue. But it has also expanded beyond that, starting in 2005, to entertainment podcasts. And in 2021, the company is launching a half-dozen new podcasts that it hopes will light up the internet with humor and insight.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.