Good news, because Red Dead Redemption 2 is about to get a whole lot cheaper! Xbox has announced that you’ll be able to saddle up on May 7, when Red Dead Redemption 2 heads to Xbox Game Pass.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a story of endings and new beginnings, of the birth of legends and the consequences that come with creating a myth. It’s all wrapped up in an immaculate presentation, told over dozens of hours and adventures that leads to an inevitable conclusion: Red Dead Redemption 2 raises the bar for the sandbox genre and stands tall as the definitive western game of this or any other generation.

The Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement Project has been running for a good while now, with DamnedDev taking on the mammoth task of translating the wildest of wests to PC. A Herculean labour of love, that job has now hit the breaks as DamnedDev put the brakes on the project.

Rockstar Games has come under fire for ducking its tax bill. That’s the claim thrown at the company behind games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V’s massively popular online mode, because while Rockstar Games may have made a cool $5 billion operating profit between 2013 to 2019, it paid absolutely zero corporation tax and it managed to siphon away a fair sum from the Video Game Tax Relief Fund over several years.

Rumours sourced from a throwaway Reddit account seem to point to some interesting if somewhat outlandish directions for the Red Dead franchise

In a report by Kotaku, a former employee claims that he was coerced into sexual activities and touched in an inappropriate manner by one of the company’s top executives.

Some games gave you the option to be history’s greatest villain, while others actually rewarded you for being what the office calls a “Darryn”. They probably mean that in an endearing way. So here we go, here’s a bunch of times where being gad didn’t just feel good, it was actually worth the effort.

According to the publisher, speaking in its quarterly earnings call (via Seeking Alpha), "Red Dead Online is performing better than Grand Theft Auto Online did at the same stage of the game."