Rockstar Lincoln, a UK-based studio that has been handling a lot of the quality assurance testing for Red Dead Redemption 2, is swearing off an approach that many employees say they had interpreted as mandatory overtime.

Need a little more Wild West in your Friday morning?

The first Red Dead Redemption did well in Japan. So now, Rockstar is plastering posters all over the country.

It’s long been an open secret in the video game industry that the prestigious developer Rockstar embraces overtime, and a new quote from company co-founder Dan Houser about Red Dead Redemption 2 caused controversy this morning by suggesting that it took 100-hour weeks to make.

In a new elaboration to Kotaku, however, Houser said the quote had been misinterpreted, saying such a workload is not required at the studio.

For another indication of how vast the scope of Red Dead Redemption 2 is, here's a neat little fact.

It's not as bad as the PSA on the back of the Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Pro bundle, but if you're headed to the Wild West on Xbox One you're still going to need almost 90GB to get started.

It's no surprise that people are closely watching for any signs for Red Dead Redemption 2, what will probably be the biggest game of the year. But as the weeks and months progressed, and Red Dead didn't show up on the classification database, people started to worry.

Enjoy your long weekend? Then here's four minutes of footage from the upcoming Red Dead sequel.

As 4K TVs become more and more common, so does another unfortunate fact of life: triple digit install sizes.

Red Dead Redemption on PC? Didn't happen. How about RDR2? That's also a dead horse, well-whipped. But that hasn't stopped one eager publisher from putting up its hand and offering to handle the desktop version of Rockstar's upcoming open-world gunslinger.

I played Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time this week, and I swiftly caused glorious chaos.

Rockstar announced today that Red Dead Redemption 2's online component will be called Red Dead Online and will launch in November starting with a public beta. “As with most online experiences of this size and scale, there will inevitably be some turbulence at launch,” the studio said, saying it looks forward to working with the game’s player community to fix any problems it has at launch.

Rockstar today showed off a first look at the western Red Dead Redemption II, which comes out October 26 for PS4 and Xbox One, and it looks like a fascinating evolution of the first one. Most importantly, this time you can brush your horse.

The Take-Two booth at E3 makes all other publishers look sweaty and sloppy. No insult to the others, really, because they're just doing what game publishers do. They have got their games and their logos and their trailers and lines of people wanting to play stuff. Take Two's got four walls of serenity.

When the world's video game marketers shuffle off this mortal coil, they will be judged for their sins. We like to think there will be a separate inquiry devoted just to superfluous special editions, where the worst offenders are cast into the ninth circle of hell.

One of the video game industry's most grating trends is timed exclusivity, when a console manufacturer such as Sony or Microsoft pays a publisher money in order to deprive content from other platforms for a certain timeframe. It looks as though Red Dead Redemption 2 will be following suit.

It's tempting to want to see our favourite characters in fiction again, maybe in a sequel or prequel. But sometimes I wonder if it's best if they're left alone.

Here's the new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, a video game about cowboys that I think a couple of people might be anticipating. It's our best look yet at the upcoming Rockstar Western.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be out October 26, Rockstar said today, the second major delay for what might be the most anticipated game of 2018.