Last year, 2K Sports faced a fair bit of backlash over its egregious monetisation in NBA 2K18. Rightly so! While the game itself may have been fantastic, it was a microtransactional nightmare, charging players real-world money for things as simple as haircuts. It didn’t take long for 2K to change the pricing of its slow-to-earn Virtual Currency after the backlash.
Yesterday, Rockstar Games revealed the Special and Ultimate Editions of Red Dead Redemption 2, along with the Collector’s Box. The reveal stirred up a veritable hornet’s nest, as players realised that they’d have to shell out extra money to get the story missions included with the Special and Ultimate Editions.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming. According to Rockstar, it’ll be out towards the end of October this year – which means that we’ll be able to get our cowboy action on in time for the holidays. Maybe.
Take-Two Interactive, the mega-publisher behind the 2K and Rockstar labels, has opened a new publishing division specifically to handle smaller, independent games. It’s called Private Division, and its aim is to help smaller developers bring new intellectual property to market. Crucially, developers retain the rights to their IP. [quotes quotes_style=”bquotes”]“We have spent more than two years laying the groundwork for …
Lootboxes and microtransactions are popping up in just about every big blockbuster game these days, much to the chagrin of many gamers. Still, people are buying them en masse, and that's only going to become more prevalent.
Take-Two really see the PC as a core platform for them, but they're leaving up to Rockstar to announce a PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 if there ever will be one.
The upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 will look to emulate the success of GTA Online with its own stab at a connected universe when you get tired of exploring the wild west in that upcoming cowboy game.
Echoing comment's he's made before, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick says that annualising franchises leads to consumer fatigue.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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