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roosterteeth P.A.N.I.C.S.

The third and short series of roosterteeth to coincide with the game F.E.A.R, this series only lasted four episodes.

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Let's Plays have evolved after Machinima, mostly after the popular online video platform, YouTube, created a partnership program to pay users for views and subscribers. Let's Plays existed in the time of Machinima's beginning, but weren't nearly as popular as they are now. When the well known user "PewDiePie" created a dedicated let's play channel and became extremely successful, more let's play channels have popped up and are now a major part of YouTube. It is arguable who started the Let's Play phase, but "PewDiePie" was definitely one of the first, gained fans dramatically fast, and remains as the most popular Let's Player on YouTube.

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Source Filmmaker - a product of Valve, this program is free to all steam users and allow wysiwyg use for making custom movies of team fortress 2 assets.

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The Strangerhood - another Machinima series created by Roosterteeth based on the Sims engine. Even though the show was very similar to RvB, it never made it past the first season, and most employees at Roosterteeth always dodge the question of whenever asked what ever happened to season 2

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The first episode of a Machinima series that gives the voiceless protagonist of "Half-Life" what he is thinking while playing the game itself. It adds a narrative to the original game.

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A Machinima taking the immobile turrets from the video game "Portal" and giving them personalites

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The first episode of Red vs Blue, which branched off of the "warthog jump" video and became a narrative web series that now has 12 seasons filmed over the course of every "Halo" game in the series. Rooster Teeth, the company who created Red vs Blue, has been so successful with Machinima that they now have an original animated series, a group who regularly produces "Let's Play" content every week, and are currently filming an original feature length film.

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Supposedly one of the very first videos of gameplay to be considered "Machinima" played on the first "Halo" game