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Rockstar axes Red Dead employees

A significant number of Rockstar employees who worked on Red Dead Redemption have been made redundant. Despite the hugely successful game only launching two months ago, Rockstar San Diego’s team has been cut down in order to focus on developing DLC content for the open world Western, according to Kotaku. …

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New Red Dead DLC announced

Rockstar has announced it will release a series of downloadable content packs for Red Dead Redemption. The four packs will be released on both PSN and Xbox Live over the next few months, starting with the Legends and Killers Pack next month. Also named was the Liars and Cheats Pack, …

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NPD: 360 beats PS3 in Red Dead battle

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the single biggest revenue contributor to the US video games market in May, according to NPD, with total unit sales of its console hitting 195k in the period and revenue reaching $254m (total May revenue hit $823.5m). It also fared well in the software market, with …

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Rockstar triggers market Redemption

Following five months of decline, the UK games market has finally posted a year-on-year increase. The launch of Red Dead Redemption helped the UK games market post a sales rise of 12 per cent last month when compared to the same period in 2009. But unit sales were down slightly …

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UK CHARTS: Red Dead undefeated

Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption has held onto the top spot of the All Formats Charts for a fifth consecutive week. The game outsold every other title this week, despite a 24 per cent drop in sales. Super Mario Galaxy 2 remains in second, although a 29 per cent drop in …

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Mario misses UK top spot

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has fallen short of reaching Number One in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 by just 1,000 units. Nintendo’s super sequel – released for Wii on Friday – was beaten to the top spot by Rockstar’s multiformat Red Dead Redemption. The Wild West adventure …

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UK CHARTS: Red Dead ahead of Mario

Red Dead Redemption has retained its Number One position in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, despite the release of long-awaited Super Mario Galaxy 2 last Friday. Rockstar’s multiformat adventure becomes the first game to achieve four consecutive number ones this year in front of Ubisoft’s Just Dance, …

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Red Dead Redemption sells in 5m worldwide

Stock shortages? Take-Two this evening said it has sold 5m units of Red Dead Redemption into retail less than a month after the game’s launch. The massive ship number was revealed as part of its second quarter results. Sales of the game were not included in the second quarter results …

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Red Dead Redemption sells in 5m worldwide

Stock shortages? Take-Two this evening said it has sold 5m units of Red Dead Redemption into retail less than a month after the game’s launch. The massive ship number was revealed as part of its second quarter results. Sales of the game were not included in the second quarter results …

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