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Everyone on Madison Avenue is struggling to find a new voice. The edgy sense of humor, irony and glib materialism that played so well off the late boom era now seems hopelessly out of date. As marketers prepare for December, a month that usually produces 30 percent of yearly sales, they face a multitude of quandaries. Is the salesman’s soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning? Can one ignore September 11, and go on as before?...

Most Red Dead Redemption 2 players already paid $60 for the core title, so the prospect of dropping additional real-world money in the game isn’t very appealing. Of course there’s a way to earn in-game currency through gameplay, but when you compare how long that takes to earn with many items are locked away in the store, it becomes a pretty intimidating task for players who want to own everything....

RELATED: 10 Classic Directors Who Could Make The Perfect Red Dead Redemption Movie The key to making a Red Dead Redemption movie work would be casting the perfect actor to play the game’s grizzled antihero John Marston in live-action. 10 Christian Bale In American Psycho, The Fighter, and Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale has more than proven that he’s one of the finest actors working today. Whether he’s playing John Connor or Dick Cheney, Bale always brings nuance to every performance....

RELATED: The 10 Best Crime Video Games Ever, Ranked One of the greatest elements of its story were the characters within the Van der Linde gang. The gang was populated with a host of interesting and morally dubious characters, and it was rife with unspoken history and traditions. Unfortunately, it is easy to miss all the fine details. These are ten facts you possibly didn’t know about the Van der Linde gang....

RELATED: Red Dead Redemption 3 Should Star Sadie Adler, But That Would Have One Sad Consequence Arthur will take part in bank robberies as part of the game’s story, but, if players are feeling brave enough then they can also rob banks by themselves. Banks are found in most major settlements on the map and they make for one of the most lucrative targets for a robbery that players can find....

Help Mary or Decline When Red Dead Redemption 2 players speak with Mary at Chadwick Farm to start the quest, she will beg for Arthur’s help in locating her brother, Jamie. Arthur will get to decide to help Mary, or decline her. Declining to help Mary will prevent players from being able accept a future mission to help Mary’s father. If Red Dead Redemption 2 players want to avoid this mistake, they should agree to help Mary....

“Consumers are consuming entertainment year-round now; they don’t stop in the summer months,” said the company’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick, on an earnings call that took place shortly after the delay was announced. “We believe that if you give people an extraordinary experience, they will show up for it.” Zelnick notes that Red Dead Redemption launched in May, and managed to be incredibly successful. It’s certainly true that top-tier games can find success outside of the holiday period, and there’s enough anticipation for Red Dead Redemption 2 that it’s difficult to imagine the title bombing simply because it’s released in the summer....

Slatoff indirectly addressed concerns by talking about the PC platform in generalities, yet delivered more than many would have expected: For those familiar with Take-Two’s past comments regarding PC plans, Slatoff’s comments are more of a confirmation than we’re used to. After all, the original Red Dead Redemption was never released for PC and Grand Theft Auto 5 genuinely had many fans wondering if the game would ever be brought to PC either....

Arthur himself plays a key role in the gang. Being the group’s lead enforcer, Arthur oversees most, if not all, of the gang’s activities. His words and actions also carry weight, as he has been with the gang for more than 20 years; making him one of its longest-standing members. Unfortunately, the events of Red Dead Redemption 2 lead Arthur to contract tuberculosis - a then-incurable terminal disease that attacks his lungs and causes him to grow weaker with each passing day....

Nvidia announced the release date of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti along with the news of the new DLSS enabled games at its recent Computex event in Taiwan. Graphics cards are some of the most sought after electronics parts in the industry right now, and it will be interesting how many of these new 30-series cards end up with individual buyers and how many are bought up by scalping companies....

Reddit user Whippas captured this rare Red Dead Redemption 2 bug on video. The short clip shows Morgan sitting motionless as his wooden rowboat propels itself through the water by unknown means. The bow even lifts out of the water like a real-life motorboat moving at high speeds. RELATED: Red Dead Redemption 2 Clip Shows Arabian Horse Wind Up in Hilariously Perilous Position Motorboats were just starting to become a thing at the end of the 19th century....

Rockstar Games recently invited some members of the press to view a 45-minute long demo of Red Dead Redemption 2 in action, also answering some questions about the game. Speaking to IGN, Rob Nelson, the co-studio head of Rockstar North, acknowledged that “some people may have never played the last one” and said that “you don’t need any knowledge of the last one to experience this one to the fullest extent....

Uploading the file a few days ago, user EnergiDaan has created a mod that, as the description page itself says, “adds in unused models” into Red Dead Redemption 2, specifically pedestrians. These NPCs were, allegedly, present in the beta version of the game, but were cut for one reason or another. Among other things, the add-on brings back some unused hair models, outfits, a sheriff, a model wearing gloves, and even an unused shot wound model....

Reddit user Felwinter_II recently discovered an unlockable scarecrow hat in Red Dead Redemption 2 that they never knew about before. And judging by the comments on the post, it seems many veteran Red Dead Redemption 2 players were also completely unaware of the hat. Luckily, anyone that wants to add Red Dead Redemption 2’s scarecrow hat to their collection should be able to do so with minimal hassle. RELATED: Red Dead Redemption 2 DLSS Update Shown Off in Gorgeous New Trailer...

One of the spookiest mysteries in Red Dead Redemption 2 occurs in the Saint Denis cemetery, where players can see a ghost woman running away and disappearing into thin air. The reasons this was included in the game by Rockstar, as well as the original intended purpose of the character, have been uncovered by fans. RELATED: 10 Game Prequels Better Than The Original (According To Metacritic) A Man of Honor https://www....

Any player knows how important the camp is within Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s an essential part of progress, and players will naturally find themselves visiting the camp numerous times throughout any playthrough helping Arthur to fast travel, rest, and resupply in between missions. Unfortunately, a bug can also cause the camp inhabitants to endlessly pester Arthur about his clothing choices, suggesting he find warmer clothes. RELATED: Red Dead Redemption Player Creates 1898 Version of Tron Lightcycle...

In a recent Tweet from the Xbox France account, it was confirmed that Red Dead Redemption 2 has been optimized and will be able to run in native 4K HDR, the highest possible console settings, on the Xbox One X. At this time, Sony has yet to officially confirm if the same settings can be applied to the PS4 Pro, but knowing that the console is slightly less powerful than the Xbox One X, it’s likely that the settings will need to be upscaled to 4K....

With such strong storytelling, many have hoped that Red Dead Redemption will become the model for modern day Western movies. While it remains to be seen if this will come to fruition, it is hard to deny the greatness of the character work and dialogue in the Rockstar series. As such, seeing the cast brought to life on the big screen seems like a no-brainer, especially with the increase in movie and TV adaptions for video games....