Red Dead Redemption 2

Not long after Rockstar's Dan Houser unwittingly reported on the brutal crunch time culture in the company, their former employee Job J. Stauffer stated that working on GTA IV was like having a gun pointed at your head for 7 days a week.

Rockstar Games are a studio somewhat notorious for their crunch hours, which was recently reported to be around 100 hours a week on Red Dead Redemption 2. The result seems to be around 60 hours of gun slinging outlaw gameplay length.

Speaking in a recent interview, Rockstar's co-founder and an industry heavyweight Dan Houser discussed Red Dead Redemption 2 and and the fact that crunch time they tasted on other games resembles child's play now that they've had RDR2's.

As we draw closer to the launch of what already seems to qualify as one of highlights of 2018, Rockstar shed more light on Red Dead Redemption 2's weapons, revealing there will be more than 50 unique firearms with a bunch of customisation.

Microsoft's xCloud is an ambitious project that aims to bring all games to just about every device, for a subscription fee. It sounds good on paper but the question of technical limitations lingers, particularly quality of connection.

As the excitement leading up to the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 continues to build, a user leaked the in-game achievements, or trophies if you will. Note that some are still marked as hidden trophies, so we don't have all 52 of them.

Rockstar's cross-promotion for Red Dead Redemption 2 through GTA V continues with not just exclusive items, but also GTA Online cash. Normally it would be a nice bonus for players in GTA V, except they are not eligible without a preorder.

It looks as if Red Dead Redemption 2 will put all Microsoft's Xbox One X cycles to good use as the game has been confirmed to run in native 4K. Although its competitor, PlayStation 4 Pro has been confirmed for 4K too, it's unlikely native.

Red Dead Redemption 2's second gameplay trailer kicked in recently and showed many systems that the players might find interesting. For example, Morgan will have to monitor his hygiene and snitches, but he'll be able to get some recreation.

Rockstar have announced that the second gameplay trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 would be shown on 01 October 2018 at 09:00 AM ET / 15:00 CEST, and it was. The trailer quietly slipped into YouTube, with no Twitch stream beforehand.