What led to the creation of Red vs. Blue?
Booze and videogames. The original idea for RvB came back in the summer of 2002 when we were working on a website we used to run called Drunk Gamers. We started the site to write humorous reviews of booze and videogames and to try and scam free videogames from various publishers. Burnie wrote about the Xbox and since at the time the best game on the Xbox was Halo, he wrote about Halo a lot. Eventually he started making weekly gameplay tip videos and while they were cool to watch, they were the only thing on the site that wasn’t intended to be funny. So Burnie had the idea to try and write a comedic script to go along with the videos and then he decided to make the videos appear letterbox by putting black bars over the HUD and gun. We thought the idea looked cool and we decided to make it a regular feature on Drunk Gamers. We never did anything with the idea. Six months later, after two and a half years of work, Drunk Gamers died. In January 2003, a week after we decided to quit work on
