Everyone is fair game, bullets are whizzing around you and chances are that there’ll be plenty of griefers roaming the harsh frontier. So how do you enable Passive Mode in Red Dead Online? Here's how.

There’s gold in them there hills! Red Dead Online has begun, and if you’re anything like me, then your pockets are probably emptier than a six-shooter revolver after a game of high stakes poker goes terribly terribly wrong. Much like Grand Theft Auto Online, Red Dead Online wants you to earn your fistful of dollars, by engaging in various pursuits that’ll have you flush with cash and resources that can be spent on some trendy threads.

Like most games of its ilk, Red Dead Online allows you to create a cowboy who represents your activities in the new frontier. Rugged, burly riders whose brawny hands can slap leather and draw iron that delivers some old fashioned justice. Testicles to that, because I’m hellbent on using my digital face as a weapon.

There's a mode in Red Dead Online called Make It Count. It’s a last-man standing game where 32 players face off against each other as the play area shrinks. If that sounds awfully like a Battle Royale, that’s because that’s precisely what it is

A month after Red Dead Redemption 2 launched, developer Rockstar Games is finally ready to unleash its ambitious online component and mosey on down to a whole new sandbox of action, adventure and socialising in the old west. With a catch, of course. Red Dead Online will arrive today, but Rockstar is looking to stagger the release and reward its more hardcore fans first and foremost.

From Rhodes to Valentine, Red Dead Redemption 2 is one heck of a gorgeous game. There’s rugged terrain to gallop over, foggy swamps to wade through and eerie forests to explore no matter where you are in the game. There’s also a slice of Mexico if you’re feeling brave enough.

The beta for Red Dead Online kicks off later this month, but Rockstar has kept quiet as to what players can expect within that mode. New leaks and data-mining (For the love of Clint Eastwood Rockstar, please don’t sue us) paints a picture of an online mode that’s not too dissimilar to GTA Online’s primary focus of owning fast cars and property.

Red Dead Online is launching after Red Dead Redemption 2, but is seeking to evolve the extremely popular formula in Grand Theft Auto Online.