Rooster Teeth Games is an American

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and distributor based in

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, serving as

Rooster Teeth Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Warner ...

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division. It is focused on "bridging the gap between independent game developers and the worldwide community of gamers."

History

Rooster Teeth Games was officially launched January 25, 2017. The aim is to help indie-developers gain exposure through Rooster Teeth’s large fan-base by developing games on all platforms for their community. The announcement was received positively, with ''

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'' calling it, "a perfect fit" given the company's "upstart background" starting with ''

Red vs. Blue ''Red vs. Blue'', often abbreviated as ''RvB'', is an American web series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is based on the setting of the military science fiction first-person shooter series and media fr ...

''. '' RWBY: Grimm Eclipse'' is a traditional

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single and multiplayer game that uses chain combos and is based on the popular anime ''

RWBY ''RWBY'' (pronounced "Ruby") is an American Anime-influenced animation, anime-influenced Computer animation, computer-animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. It is set in the fictional world of Remnant, where young people tr ...

''. It was originally developed in 2014 by a fan, Jordan Scott, in celebration of Rooster Teeth's anniversary. At RTX 2014, Rooster Teeth announced that they had hired Scott, and officially picked up the game. Rooster Teeth CEO

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stated, "''RWBY'' is a natural choice for us to focus on for our first in-house produced video game. Fans can expect that we will bring the same level of originality in action, comedy and design to the video game that has made the ''RWBY'' animated series such a hit." ''RWBY: Grimm Eclipse'' was a bestseller when it was released on Steam in the summer of 2016 and is a top-10 seller on

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and

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. They were awarded Best Video Game Studio/Developer 2014 by ''

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'' for ''RWBY: Grimm Eclipse''. In early 2017, Rooster Teeth Games had become a game publisher for independent games in addition to its video game development. In June 2017, it was announced David Eddings had joined as its head of game publishing. On September 27, 2017, Rooster Teeth Games announced a

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campaign for its first official board game, also based on

, titled ''RWBY: Combat Ready'' in collaboration with Arcane Wonders. The campaign successfully reached its goal within days. Its next game, ''Vicious Circle'', described as a "uncooperative shooter" was released in August 2019. The game transitioned to a free to play model in November 2019 and refunds were offered to those who had purchased the game for full price.

List of games developed and/or published

Video games

Board games

References

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