Red Dead Online fans have declared the game dead and are thus planning an in-game funeral for next week. As spotted by PCGN (opens in new tab), fan account Red Dead News shared an invitation for Red Dead Online’s funeral to Twitter. The invitation asks guests to dress in appropriately …
Read More »This Red Dead Online player has penned a brilliant 5-year plan to save the game
There’s a standoff right now in Red Dead Online. It’s pistols at dawn, 10 paces apart, a duel of significant proportions. On one side stands the western crime sim’s dedicated community, holstering passion for their favourite open-world sandbox and a hashtag, #SaveRedDeadOnline. On the other stands Rockstar, accused of inaction, …
Read More »What does your outfit say about the way you play GTA Online? A lot, apparently
I found them one night, deep down a TikTok rabbit hole. A collection of videos edited in the same style as the “fit” clips where influencers show off their hottest fashions set to the latest viral song – except these videos took place entirely in GTA Online. The main account …
Read More »How Red Dead Online role-players turned an out-of-bounds prison into a working Wild West criminal justice system
Red Dead Online is the kind of multiplayer experience that was screaming for a role-playing community from day one. Rockstar’s open world western is all about soaking up the minute details of the frontiersman lifestyle, right down to the nitty gritty of sharpening every bullet with your knife at a …
Read More »Red Dead Online needs an in-game gold rush if it wants to bring new players to the frontier in 2021
From Oregon Trail emigrants to the infamous Forty-Niners, Expansion era America saw hundreds of thousands head westward in search of fortune. Their pilgrimage across miles of open country wasn’t undertaken just for the adventure of it, after all, but for the promise of more – more money and more opportunity. …
Read More »How do Red Dead Online microtransactions work?
There was no doubt that Red Dead Online microtransactions would feature in the game, considering how huge the online Wild West is and the scale of weapons, equipment, and other useful items available to spend your currency on. With Rockstar reaching a phenomenal level of success with the microtransactions used …
Read More »Xbox Series X download sizes could shrink with AI tech that works “scarily well”
As resolutions rise, games get bigger – not in the “more to explore” sense but in the “more to download” sense. New technology in the works at Microsoft could reverse that trend for Xbox Series X (opens in new tab). You may not have heard of Microsoft Game Stack before, …
Read More »Red Dead Online players are hiking across the map with bowls of soup, for fun
If you haven’t been keeping up with the world of Red Dead Online (opens in new tab), you’re missing out on one of the most exciting online landscapes of modern gaming. Not only has Rockstar been continually updating the game with the likes of Red Dead Online Roles (opens in …
Read More »Red Dead Online finally leaves beta testing, in its biggest and most promising update yet
We would forgive you for presuming that Red Dead Online (opens in new tab) was a fully fledged multiplayer experience, and not an early access Beta with its own growing pains and pre-launch schedule, but Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab)’s online accompaniment has technically been in prototype …
Read More »Red Dead Online is making a hell of a lot less money than GTA Online
Rockstar has already achieved untold wealth and success with Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab), which has sold over 23 million copies since its release last October but Red Dead Online (opens in new tab) – the game’s multiplayer component currently in beta on PS4 and Xbox One …
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