Experience the epic Western adventure Red Dead Redemption and its groundbreaking zombie-horror companion, Undead Nightmare, as both games come to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 for the very first time in a single package.

In a new conversion by Double Eleven Studios, the Switch and PS4 versions bring the two classic experiences together again for both new players and original fans to enjoy across modern consoles, including backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 5.

One of the most critically acclaimed games of all time with over 170 Game of the Year Awards, Red Dead Redemption tells the story of former outlaw John Marston as he journeys across the sprawling expanses of the American West and Mexico to track down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in a bid to save his family.

Relive, or experience for the first time, the events immediately following the epic tale of honor and loyalty in the 2018 blockbuster Red Dead Redemption 2 as Marston hunts down his former friends and outlaws Bill Williamson, Javier Escuella, and his former gang leader, Dutch van der Linde as the era of the cowboy comes to its end.

Red Dead Redemption on Nintendo Switch and PS4 also includes Undead Nightmare, the hallowed story expansion that reimagines the world of Red Dead Redemption as Marston fights to survive a relentless zombie horde and searches for a cure in a spooky, supernatural twist on the Western genre.

In addition to both classic, single-player experiences, newly supported languages include, for the first time, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Latin American Spanish.

Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare will be available on the Nintendo Switch eShop and PlayStation Store, with physical releases arriving October 13th, 2023.

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Red Dead Online, the vibrant, ever-evolving world where you can take on a range of unique roles and pursuits to blaze your own outlaw trail across the American frontier,will be available to purchase as a standalone game.

For the first time, new players who do not already own Red Dead Redemption 2 can experience everything Red Dead Online has to offer, including access to all future content updates.

Forge your own path across any of five unique Specialist Roles. These include apprehending everyone from low-level criminals to notorious gangs as a Bounty Hunter, learning the secrets of the animal kingdom as a Naturalist or hunting wildlife as a means for source materials as a Trader, searching for exotic treasures as a Collector, to even running your own underground Moonshine distillery.

Help the widow Jessica LeClerk and her right-hand man, Horley gain revenge upon the men who killed her husband in A Land of Opportunities, a series of story-based cooperative missions for two to four players.

Compete in Showdown Modes, a series of competitive modes where players and teams compete in classic gunfights and objective-based competitions like capturing territory or supplies.

And much more, including Free Roam Missions that can vary based on how noble or nefarious you are, public or private games of Poker, competitive Free Roam Events and Daily Challenges – all taking place in a world of astounding depth and detail.

Red Dead Online will be available from the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Rockstar Games Launcher, Epic Games Store and Steam at an introductory offer until February 15, 2021 (PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold are required to play). The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Red Dead Online will be playable via backward compatibility on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series hardware.

The new standalone version of Red Dead Online will require up to 123GB of disk space and will also include the option to unlock Red Dead Redemption 2: Story Mode (purchased separately).

Red Dead Online will be released on the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, Rockstar Games Launcher, Epic Games Store and Steam on December 1st, 2020.

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Rockstar Games is proud to announce numerous critical and commercial achievements across multiple titles, including Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2, and a record-breaking holiday season with its two online worlds, GTA Online and Red Dead Online.

Grand Theft Auto V is the best-selling game of the past decade in U.S. dollar sales, also earning BBC’s top Game of the Decade. Seven years after release, the shared living world of GTA Online has had its biggest series of back-to-back updates ever in terms of player numbers, with new records set in December and the quarter ending December 31st, 2019, following the release of the Diamond Casino & Resort update in July 2019 and the Diamond Casino Heist in December 2019.

In addition to these blockbuster achievements, Grand Theft Auto V also hit a new record for video engagements in January, illustrating how compelling Grand Theft Auto V content is to viewers and broadcasters alike.

Red Dead Redemption 2 continues to outperform, achieving a new benchmark as the top-selling title of the last four years in U.S. dollar sales. Red Dead Online also continues to see strong growth, hitting a new peak in player numbers in December following the release of the latest update, Moonshiners, topping those numbers again in January.

Together, both award-winning titles have attained incredible benchmarks for Rockstar Games, with collective lifetime sell-in of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 now totaling more than 150 million units worldwide. Rockstar Games’ total online audience is now its biggest ever, having recorded its largest numbers ever throughout the fourth quarter of calendar 2019.

To celebrate these milestones, Rockstar Games will be offering huge bonuses to players in both games starting this week:

GTA Online will feature bonus cash of up to GTA$2,000,000 in its biggest cash giveaway yet. Starting on January 30, players can earn GTA$1,000,000 simply by playing before February 5th 2020 and will be able to earn another GTA$1,000,000 by playing between February 6th and February 12th, 2020.

Red Dead Online players will receive a series of gifts including free access to select roles, special role item giveaways and more, including:

• The Gunslinger’s Cache: Play between January 28th and February 3rd, 2020 to get a Free Schofield Revolver, a Reward for 1 Free Varmint Rifle and The Devastating Ammo Bundle

• The Bounty Hunter’s Kit: Play between February 4th and February 10th, 2020 to get a Reward for a Free Bounty Hunter license, 25 x Bolas, and a 25 x Tracking Arrows.

Grand Theft Auto V is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. Red Dead Redemption 2 is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.

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Arthur Morgan is boot kicking and gun slinging on to PC.

Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC brings the epic story of Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang to life in breathtaking new ways – with no shortage of dazzling technical enhancements that deliver deeper immersion. These include increased draw distances, improved shadows and lighting, new grass and fur textures, and much more – complemented by a host of exciting new content additions for the game’s Story Mode.

Watch the new trailer above to see Red Dead Redemption 2 in stunning 4K / 60 frames per second and see how packed full of new details and greater fidelity every corner of this vast open world is. From the claw marks of a passing bear at the base of a tree in Big Valley and the individual spines on a cactus in New Austin, to a train passing on a far horizon and embers sparkling in the New Hanover night sky.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available for PC on November 5th 2019. Rockstar Games have a pre-purchase offer exclusively via the Rockstar Games Launcher by October 22nd to receive two free classic Rockstar Games PC titles along with additional pre-purchase incentives including bonuses for Story Mode and 50 Gold Bars for Red Dead Online.

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NOW CLOSED – According to new data insights from PriceSpy, the fully impartial price and product comparison site, it appears gamers are shopping smartly, waiting for prices to drop for the most popular games of last year, as all top five games are now priced under the $70 mark.

PriceSpy’s five most popular games in May 2019.

Liisa says: “Based on historical clicks received, despite launching over a year ago, God of War (PS4)has claimed the top spot as most popular game in May, ahead of a brand new release, CTR Crash Team Racing – Nitro Fuled Edition (PS4), which is due to launch later this month.

“Our insights indicate gamers appear to be shopping smartly, holding out to purchase last year’s most popular games once the initial launch hype has died down and the price has dropped.  This is great to see, as shopping like this can help gamers save hundreds of dollars in the long run.”

God of War (PS4) originally launched with an RRP of $120. According to pricing insights from PriceSpy, it can now be purchased for just $48, 60 percent less than 15 months ago.

Liisa concludes:  “The price drop has certainly resulted in consumer demand picking up in the game again, as previously the last time God of War (PS4) was the most popular game, was back in August 2018.

PriceSpy has teamed up with STG to give away the top two games for the month of May 2019.

To Enter our Giveaway you will need to correctly answer what is the name of Kratos’ Son?

A: John

B: Michael

C: Atreus

You can give us your Answer by placing a Comment below, hitting us up on Facebook, Tweet to us, or Email Us.

Download the PriceSpy app here.

* Winner(s) will be randomly selected from those that Comment below / Facebook Comment / Email in accordance to the above Question.Winner(s) will receive a new retail boxed copy of God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2. God of War is rated R16 and Red Dead Redemption 2  is rated R16. You MUST be over the age of 16 years in order to Enter this competition (STG may request for Age Verification). Competition ends on the  18th of July 2019.

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If Rockstar’s behemoth western game; Red Dead Redemption 2 wasn’t already large enough, it’s about to get a whole lot bigger!

Now that you have had a chance over the past month to experience the story of Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang in Red Dead Redemption 2, it is almost time to begin the beta period for Red Dead Online. Early access to the Red Dead Online beta begins tomorrow on Wednesday, November 28th 2018, working up to full public access on Saturday,  December 1st, 2018.

Built from the ground up for the latest hardware, Red Dead Online blends the classic multiplayer of the original Red Dead Redemption with the best of everything we have learned since then about creating deep multiplayer experiences. The result is something completely new and fun, and an experience that will continue to expand and evolve over time.

With the gameplay of Red Dead Redemption 2 as its foundation, Red Dead Online transforms the vast and deeply detailed landscapes, cities, towns and habitats of Red Dead Redemption 2 into a new, living online world ready to be shared by multiple players. Create and customize your character, tailor your abilities to suit your play style and head out into a new frontier full of things to experience.

Explore the world solo or with friends. Form or join a Posse to ride with up to seven players; gather around the fire at your Camp; head out hunting or fishing; visit bustling towns; battle enemy gangs and attack their hideouts; hunt for treasure; take on missions and interact with familiar characters from across the five states; or fight against other outlaws in both spontaneous skirmishes and pitched set-piece battles; compete with other players or whole Posses in open world challenges and much more.

The launch of the Red Dead Online Beta is the first step in what will be a continually expanding and dynamic world, and the beta period will allow us to deal with the inevitable turbulence of launching any online experience of this size and scale.

During this process, Rockstar Games will be looking to their dedicated community to help us report and fix problems, share ideas, and assist in shaping the future of the full Online experience. As with all of their releases, they will strive to make the launch of Red Dead Online the best it can possibly be, and they ask that the community share that spirit with them over the next weeks and months.

To help ease into the beta and to mitigate major issues, Rockstar Games will begin the early access period starting Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 at 00:30am AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time), and gradually scale the player base up to full access beginning on Saturday, December 1st, 2018. This will help ensure that their servers can handle a steadily growing volume of concurrent players in the early hours and first days of the Beta and hopefully reduce the likelihood of any server crashes during the launch week as they get things up and running.  Full rollout details are as follows:

– Wednesday, November 28, 2018: All Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition owners. Please note, players who purchased the physical Ultimate Edition must redeem the Ultimate Edition code in the packaging to be eligible.

– Thursday, November 29, 2018: All players who played Red Dead Redemption 2 on October 26th according to our data.

– Friday, November 30, 2018: All players who played Red Dead Redemption 2 between October 26th to October 29th according to our data.

-Saturday, December 1st, 2018: All players who own Red Dead Redemption 2.

The Red Dead Online Beta will be available to anyone who owns Red Dead Redemption 2 on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One starting Saturday, December 1st, 2018. When booting up Red Dead Redemption 2 and arriving to the title menu, you will see an option in the top right of the screen to select Online.

Stay tuned for more details about Red Dead Online modes, gameplay and more.

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You are Arthur Morgan.

A lone ranger in the old west who is a member of a small group of misfit ‘cowboys’. Neither good or bad, forging your way, your life through the increasingly shrinking untamed wild west.

The game players had waited eight years for. The sequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar Games is the most sought after and coveted title this year.

Some time has passed since the first Red Dead and America has changed. A lot.

Western rebel pockets of old skool days were dissolving as the western parts of the U.S. became more industrial, commercial, advanced in industry and overall, more civilized.

The game is bigger than big – exactly what Red Dead Redemption 2 fans had hoped for, spanning across five fictitious states of the US; New Hanover, Lemoyne, Ambarino being the new ones and New Austin and West Elizabeth having been dramatically expanded from the first Red Dead.

Gameplay, third and at times a first person perspective, ushers you in. The first chapter is slow going as you get to grips with the game, it’s mechanics and you’re enveloped in to the story.

Dutch van der Linde and John Marston return from the original Red Dead, Van der Linde having his own gang which you are the Lieutenant of.

But being an ole west gang of horse riding outlaws is not as easy as it used to be. It’s the turn of the century, 1899. Law enforcement is cracking down on the small pockets of west gangs and after a ferry heist goes wrong, yourself and the rest of the Van der Linde group are hiding out in a ‘safe’ area known as Blackwater.

This mountain top hideout is scarce on resources so you must pilfer what you can from any small dwellings and settlements that you find.

It is while being here that it is discovered a rival gang are close by. They have a train robbery plot in the works. Van der Linde wants in.

A few shoot outs and a bit of interrogation sees the Van der Linde group with you at the forefront instigate the last big windfall. The heist that will produce enough wealth for the rest of their lives.

But the riches on the train belonged to an oil magnate called Leviticus. He is not one to be taken advantage of and he hires Detectives to track down and take out all of the Van der Linde members, including you.

While on the run from the fuzz you come across two warring families over Yankee Gold – and guess what, yup, you want that gold. But again, not all goes to plan for our guys and eventually they are embroiled in a civil war.

Being a bunch of rebellious blokes, each with their eyes on the prize it also doesn’t take much for a bit of tension within the ranks and there are moments where you’re not too sure who to trust.

But trust is not Arthur’s main concern as the game progresses onwards and there becomes a time of much needed reflection…

For the most part Red Dead Redemption 2 will see you either on horseback or running about expansive and crucially detailed landscapes, from snowy mountains through to dusty towns and everything inbetween.

Pistols, shotguns explosives and more are your arsenal, selectable via a weapon wheel which you can swap out on the fly. You even have a rope for that cowboy-esque lasso – and hog-tying foes that you either choose not to kill, or shouldn’t kill as they might have info that you need.

Red Dead Redemption 2 successfully combines adventure, action and RPG in to one – without a too heavier focus on RPG.

You’ll collect up items, food and essential always seems to be paramount but scarce.

Red Dead Redemption 2 ultimately engrosses you into the story. And it’s an ever evolving narrative with so many twists, turns and surprises that you are compelled to play on.

A huge game – a game that keeps on giving, you’ll be looking at around 40+ hours to get through the story.

Best played on PS4 Pro or Xbox One X to really allow your senses to feast on the sheer detail put in to this game.

Rockstar Games absolutely put their heart and soul in to the development of their titles. The once rebels themselves who bought us GTA (Grand Theft Auto) series have the highest quality control of any video game developers and it shows within each frame, every action, all dialogue of the film-esque narrative.

If you missed the first Red Dead redemption in 2010 Red Dead Redemption 2 is an excellent start. And while there is a backstory it is only really familiar to those that played the first one.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a standalone for newcomers to the series.

Fans cried out for it, all gamers rejoiced when it was first announced, and all of us, the players waited for Red Dead Day.

This IS the game for 2018.

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Building on the evocative score of the original Red Dead Redemption, the soundtrack and score of Red Dead Redemption 2 is a powerful, emotional journey through the final days of America’s outlaw era.

Red Dead Redemption 2 features an interactive, dynamic score composed by Woody Jackson. Rockstar fans will already be familiar with Woody’s work on the original Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Grand Theft Auto V with Tangerine Dream, The Alchemist and Oh No.

The score features additional production and arrangement by Jeff Silverman (Truth and Soul, Aloe Black), with additional musical score and orchestration provided by Colin Stetson (Bon Iver, Hereditary), David Ferguson (Johnny Cash’s engineer), David Ralicke (Beck, Sons of Anarchy), Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers, True Detective), Luke O’Malley, Mario Batkovic (of Geoff Barrow’s Invada), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Prince Billy), Rabih Beaini and Senyawa, as well as contributions from over 110 other musicians including Arca (frequent Bjork, Kanye West, Frank Ocean and Kelela collaborator), Duane Eddy (Lee Hazlewood protégé), Jon Theodore (former drummer of Mars Volta and current Queens of the Stone Age drummer), Michael Shuman aka Mikey Shoes (Queens of the Stone Age, Mini Mansions) and more

All of the vocal moments in Red Dead Redemption 2 are produced entirely by Grammy Award-winner Daniel Lanois, known for producing albums for Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Willie Nelson as well as collaborating with pioneering musician Brian Eno to produce several albums for U2 including the multi-platinum The Joshua Tree. In addition to Lanois’ production, the soundtrack features additional vocal performances from a range of award-winning artists including D’Angelo, Willie Nelson, Nas, Rhiannon Giddens, Josh Homme, plus an additional track written, produced and performed by David Ferguson. All songs for both the score and soundtrack were created exclusively for Red Dead Redemption 2.

Stay tuned for more information including on the forthcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 official soundtrack release.

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Rockstar Games has just confirmed to us here at StG that their much awaited and long overdue sequel; Red Dead Redemption 2 is now set to launch Spring 2018 (Autumn 2018 for Australian and New Zealand) on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

This outlaw epic set across the vast and unforgiving American heartland will be the first Rockstar game created from the ground up for the latest generation of console hardware.

The revised release date differs from one previously announced. As Rockstar Games has informed us, this is due to extra development time which is necessary to ensure that they can deliver the best experience possible for fans of the series and fans of Rockstar Games in general.

Rockstar Games has stated; “We are very sorry for any disappointment this delay causes, but we are firm believers in delivering a game only when it is ready. We are really excited to bring you more details about the game this summer”.

Rockstar have also provided StG with a few screenshots below.

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