Sometimes the anticipation for something is better than the actual thing. This happens most often when I order cheesecake at a restaurant, hoping for something that’s slightly sweet and a little tarts – only to inevitably end up with a mouth full of horribly textured guff that tastes like solidified condensed milk on a mound of crushed Tennis biscuits. While the anticipation is exceedingly high, I don’t expect that to be the case with Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2.

Star power can help sell a game, but the other side of that coin flip also reveals the various hazards of working with a cast of established Hollywood actors. Overinflated egos, premium salary costs and creative differences are just a few of these drawbacks, something that Rockstar Games is well aware of these days.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a massive game with a level of detail that seems unmatched by modern standards. But that means the studio embraced crunch, instigating 100-hour work weeks to do it.

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

Here's a look at some of the dives and settlements that you’ll be able to visit along the new frontier when you’re not busy robbing people of their belongings in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Sony’s still not backing down on the cross platform play argument, suggesting that the reason they’re not opening the gates is because PlayStation is the best place to play. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference, Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick had some fair words of warning for Sony.

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Along with a certain game featuring a teenager bitten by a radioactive spider, Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably the most anticipated game of the year. The sequel to Rockstar’s wild-west action game is coming at the end of October – and it’s such a threat to everything else that the release slates around then are practically clear.