For all the fans of Rooster Teeth Production’s wacky web series Red Vs. Blue, this is a bittersweet date.

The 100th and final final episode of the comedy series that used the Halo engine to pioneer machinima – movies made out of in-game video footage – will be released this evening (June 27, 2007). This will also complete the storyline that began in 2003 and has included time travel, interspecies mating, talking bombs and all manner of animated military hijinks. Though Rooster Teeth will occasionally release Red vs. Blue specials, the 15 minute finale will be the end the series as we know it.

Last week saw the launch of a free Shadowrun multiplayer demo for Xbox Live gold members. Fans of the original Halo will recognize John Howard as the lead designer for the project and FASA studios has been the force behind some great games — they did Crimson Skies, for example, the oft under-rated StarFox spinoff for the first Xbox console.

Gamers who were worried about suffering the symptoms of Halo 3 Beta withdrawal were glad to be able to sink their teeth into something new and all for the economical price of zero dollars. The game got a lot of good press …