Red Dead Redemption 2

Rockstar's new monster Red Dead Redemption 2 has managed to retain first place in the UK's boxed sales chart ahead of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, greatly helped by the uneventful week that had no new releases making it in the top 10.

Answering a question at investors call, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has confirmed Rockstar will launch Red Dead Redemption 2 online open beta by the end of the month. Zelnick also declined to go into any detail about monetisation.

YouTube has recently removed any videos depicting beatings and murder of the suffragette from Red Dead Redemption 2, and critics are coming down on Rockstar for allowing it. Yet, none of this was an issue in TES: Oblivion or in Fallout 3.

The fact that Red Dead Redemption 2 is making a killing for Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive is no news but the latter's financial report says that by selling 17 million copies, the game outsold its predecessor in just eight days.

Eight years on from Red Dead Redemption 1, but 12 years earlier in the story of the blood-thirsty van der Linde gang and its members, Red Dead Redemption 2 has been teasing us for a year since its first announcement. Is it worth the wait?

No one's taking the throne from Rockstar's giant in the strongest second-week sales in 2018. Red Dead Redemption 2 has retained the lead with the likes of FIFA 19 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 following behind in second and third place.

If you're looking for some strange and hilarious glitches, the open world of Red Dead Redemption 2 is the place to visit. Just take a look at this one, a cursed road glitch that'll set ablaze everything in its path, including your horse.

You've got to give it to Rockstar because while they may not launch much - they kill it when they do and Red Dead Redemption 2 has raked in $725 million in the opening weekend alone, which makes it the best opening weekend by a game, ever.

After Digital Foundry confirmed that RDR2 plays in native 4K on the Xbox One X and that PS4 Pro is using the upscaled resolution, known as the "checkerboard rendering", some fans are feeling let down and misled by Sony's RDR2 commercial.

I'm not really sure there's an empirical possibility of anyone being surprised at this outcome, with Red Dead Redemption 2 headlines ranging from the dreaded crunch to the parts of Arthur's horse you don't really want to be focusing on.