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Red Dead Redemption Gets Double XP Weekend Over Halloween

Developer Rockstar has announced that its Western based open world title Red Dead Redemption will be getting a Double XP Weekend to coincide with both the Halloween celebrations and the launch of the downloadable content, called Undead Nightmare Pack.The Double XP Weekend is set to start at 1 PM Eastern Time on Frida...

28 October 2010
04:24 GMT

Starcraft II – A Touch of the Western and Other Stereotypes

Our protagonist is buffed, has thick black hair with wild strands, an old fashioned revolver laying on the table ahead of him and relies on strong liquor to put his troubles behind him. He sits at an old fashioned wooden table somewhere in the wasteland and talks about how being an outlaw has changed his life. The ma...

30 July 2010
19:21 GMT

Players Logged 17 Million Hours in Red Dead Redemption

We already know that Red Dead Redemption is the best sold videogame for the month of May in the United States, with the figures from the NPD Group showing that the Western-themed open world shooter managed to sell more than 1 million units on the Xbox 360 and on the PlayStation 3.Now, a set of figures offered by the ...

6 July 2010
08:06 GMT

Red Dead Redemption – The Father, The Son and Destiny

I cared for John Marston and for his family even though while playing as this character, I did quite a few things modern morality would consider as being bad. I killed quite a few people in order to take their valuables, I scared a lot of them away from things I needed, killed soldiers of a legitimate government to a...

25 June 2010
18:41 GMT

Red Dead Redemption – The Horror of Skinning and Looting

Say you're riding along on a stallion, looking for a Wanted man to take down, tie and then take back to town for a bit of juicy ransom. This being the Wild West, it's clear that the criminal will not be coming along happily and that he might actually have a few other gunmen close to protect his villainy. I ...

24 June 2010
18:41 GMT

Red Dead Redemption – The Quick and the Dead Eye

There was never a man in the West as capable with a weapon as Marston, the protagonist of Red Dead Redemption. Those who are interested in the setting are accustomed to seeing gunslingers who have the sight of eagles and the speed of wild cats, able to draw before their enemy and shoot guns out of hands, hats of head...

23 June 2010
16:51 GMT

Red Dead Redemption

If there's one thing I deeply hate in Red Dead Redemption, it is the dark. Consider that in the first decade of the XX century, there was precious little public lightning in the West and not even the East Coast did much better.When it’s dark, wolves have a way of getting close fast and nipping at my heels ...

18 June 2010
06:47 GMT

Quick Look: Red Dead Redemption

I get the sense that the developers at Rockstar might have managed to capture more of the feel of the frontier West in their new Red Dead Redemption than they set out to in this endeavor. In the first couple of hours in this new world crafted by the people who made Grand Theft Auto IV, I managed to get lost, die by d...

11 June 2010
15:11 GMT

Rockstar Ready to Deliver Red Dead Redemption Dynamite to Gamers

Red Dead Redemption has seen quite a bit of success since its launch about two weeks ago, with some sources saying that the Western-themed videogame managed to sell no less than 10 million copies worldwide.And, now, Rockstar, the company that put together the open world experience, is ready to translate some of it in...

1 June 2010
16:41 GMT

Outlaws to the End Trophies Leaked

Developer Rockstar has unveiled the Trophies that will be up for grabs when the new Red Dead Redemption downloadable content, Outlaws to the End, will be launched at some point in June. There are 10 new Trophies that a PlayStation 3 patch introduced to the game and players can safely presume that the same names and d...

31 May 2010
16:11 GMT

Analyst: Red Dead Redemption Might Sell 4 Million Units in One Year

One of the big launches before the long summer gaming gap is Red Dead Redemption, the Western themed shooter coming from Rockstar, the development studio which is best known for publishing the highly successful Grand Theft Auto series. The game is now out on the United States market, with the launch date for Europe s...

19 May 2010
04:12 GMT

United Arab Emirates Bans Red Dead Redemption

The United Arab Emirates seems to have banned Red Dead Redemption from being sold in the nation's shops, according to a retailer from the Dubai Mall quoted by a user from the T-Break Forums. The developer, Rockstar San Diego, and its publisher, Take-Two Interactive, have refrained from any official comments. Red...

18 May 2010
08:46 GMT

Full Achievements List for Red Dead Redemption Unveiled, Some Still Secret

With Red Dead Redemption just round the corner, the people at Rockstar released the full list of Achievements that can be obtained in the game. There are 48 of them, some are secret and the rest also contain some minor spoilers for the experience, so do not read on if you are concerned about learning more than necess...

5 May 2010
05:44 GMT

Red Steel 2 Success Critical for Franchise Future

For some time now, big publishers have aimed to create a market for hardcore titles on the more casual-friendly Nintendo Wii home gaming console and mostly failed. Dead Space: Extraction was not the hit Electronic Arts was looking for and titles like MadWorld also failed to make a significant impact.Now, French publi...

23 February 2010
08:06 GMT

Translation Problems Delayed Sega's Bayonetta

Sega is one of the most respected names in gaming, being active in the industry for a huge amount of time, ever since the arcade days. The Japanese company also owns a lot of high-quality franchises for which it develops new iterations quite often, like Sonic for example. But one new property that Sega has been heav...

19 August 2009
03:21 GMT

Rockstar Unveils the Unpleasantness of Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar is pushing the envelope on the Wild West theme with Red Dead Redemption, with co founder Dan Houser saying that the developer plans to include a lot of “blood and gore and gruesomeness” in the upcoming game created for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.Houser talked to IGN about the game and sai...

15 May 2009
14:11 GMT

Kojima Wants to Work with Western Studios, Doesn't Exclude MGS Remake

The gaming industry has a lot of iconic figures in the form of game designers who have shaped the way we play and interact with video games today. One of the most reputed and respected of them is Hideo Kojima, the creator of the extremely popular Metal Gear Solid franchise, a series that intertwined storytelling with...

16 April 2009
11:21 GMT

Call of Juarez Will Be Bound in Blood

Ubisoft is sending word that it plans to release a prequel to its Call of Juarez Western themed shooter. The new game will be called Bound in Blood and will arrive for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the good old PC sometime in the second half of 2009.Developing studio Techland is again h...

14 January 2009
03:51 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Developer Talks About Western Influence

Resident Evil is one the most successful horror survival franchises out there. It has been terrorizing gamers ever since the first title was released in 1996 on the PlayStation by Japanese developer Capcom, and it has spawned a lot of sequels, with the next generation title, Resident Evil 5, currently under developme...

27 October 2008
02:24 GMT

The Wild West Goes Online

Many people thought that the Wild West and westerns were history, but we all know that does not matter at all when it comes to computer and video games. The proof is Tenderfoot Games' title Wild West Online: Gunfighter, a game that manages to bring back to life the history-rich American Western world. Even more,...

9 June 2008
05:45 GMT

Howdy! Ace-High Western PMP for Cowboys!

This is China, Ranger! You've got all the rights to copycat, clone and else! Therefore, this shouldn't come as a surprise to you. By "this" I mean the latest model of a PMP, specially designed for real rangers, cowboys and cowgirls out there. And since real horses cannot be customized with MP3 players or PM...

1 November 2007
05:55 GMT

Custom Build Your Very Own 120GB HDD for the Elite 360 - Save $100

So, getting ready to mess up the Elite are we? Well, not if you need the extra hundred bucks for something else. As you know, Microsoft's rolling out their elusive, black cased Xbox 360 Elite, selling its massive 120 gig hard drive unit separately for $180. That's a lot of cash for an HDD unit, you have to ...

24 April 2007
04:44 GMT

Gun Cheats and Hints (Xbox)

Set in the untamed West of the late 1800s, GUN is a free-roaming action-adventure game that takes you into a world without laws, where greed, lust, and murder are rampant. As Colton White, a vengeful gunslinger, you must straddle the line between good and evil. Engage in showdowns against corrupt lawmen, a murderous ...

23 March 2007
10:07 GMT


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