Red Dead Online gets a major overhaul.
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Red Dead Online gets overhaul with new missions, poker, and fishing

Red Dead Online hasn’t set the world on fire in the same way that Grand Theft Auto Online has done over the past five years. But Rockstar Games is announcing a major overhaul for Red Dead Online with the addition of various features aimed at enticing people to play.

Take-Two Interactive said yesterday that its Rockstar Games label had sold more than 24 million copies of Red Dead Redemption 2, the single-player Western epic and the foundation for Red Dead Online. But that’s only 1 million more since its last reporting period in February.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.