PlayStation

The Weird Art Of The Video Game Massacre

We’ve all done it. Anyone who’s played an open-world game, from Grand Theft Auto III to Fallout 3 to Red Dead Redemption, has gone on a murderous rampage.


May 13, 2012
PC

A Red Dead Redemption Ghost Story To Chill Your Bones

They say Red Dead Redemption is haunted, you know. They’ve said it for years now — ghosts exist in the system, devils and spooks and spectors and maybe even a class-5 full-roaming vapour or two.


April 6, 2012
PC

Some Video Games Are Better Without Music

I think it goes without saying that I love music in video games. But not all games require a soundtrack, and in fact, some games that have a soundtrack are better without it.


March 28, 2012
In Real Life

When Games Force You To Read Books In Korea

In the top picture, you can see a yellow rubber band running around the case of a Korean copy of Red Dead Redemption. That rubber band came free with a used copy of that game, and it holds together the disc case and a booklet in the back. That booklet is the Korean translation of the main game’s script.


February 8, 2012
In Real Life

A Crazy, Paranoid Story From Red Dead Redemption’s Development

A Red Dead Redemption fansite has been holding court with some interesting interviews lately with the Western’s cast, and the latest – with Rob Wiethoff, voice of John Marston himself – is no exception.


January 31, 2012
In Real Life

Here’s Red Dead Redemption’s Most Modern Town Re-Made In Minecraft

Blackwater was the newest part of Red Dead Redemption‘s Old West, the section of Rockstar’s hit game that pointed the most to the 21st Century where people were playing it. It was a bit of time travel, if you will.


January 28, 2012
In Real Life

Red Dead Redemption Voice-Actor Details Cast’s ‘Redneck Zombie Romantic Comedy’ Quasi-Reunion

The cast of Red Dead Redemption are no strangers to rednecks, nor to zombies — Rockstar’s wild-west open world game featured plenty of the former in its original incarnation, and added an invasion of the latter added to the game via downloadable content.


January 24, 2012
PlayStation

Hacked PS3 Lets You Play Battlefield 3, Red Dead Redemption On The Vita

Enterprising hackers, who have cracked open the PS3′s v3.55 firmware, now have a pretty neat feature running on Sony’s new handheld: the ability to remotely play games like Battlefield 3 on a PlayStation Vita.


January 16, 2012
In Real Life

Hitman Absolution Rips Off Red Dead Redemption In The Coolest Way

Last week, my friend and colleague Matt Cabral wrote up an excellent preview of Hitman Absolution for Kotaku. I was given the same demonstration as he by IO Interactive and Square Enix this week at CES and couldn’t agree with him more – the game is going to be absolutely bloody fantastic.


December 9, 2011
PlayStation

The Dusty Concept Art Of Red Dead Redemption

Hethe Srodawa is a concept artist who works at Trion Worlds on the developer’s long-coming collaboration with the SyFy channel. Which is cool! But it’s not why we’re here today.