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Redfall is coming out May 2 on the Xbox Series X/S and the PC.
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A trip into Redfall’s open world of vampires | Ricardo Barre interview

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

I recently attended an event at a Microsoft space in San Francisco, and I walked out with a cookie that said “Bite Back” on it.

That’s precisely what you’re supposed to do in Redfall, the anti-vampire game coming on May 2 from Microsoft’s Bethesda division and Arkane Austin. It’s story-driven shooter set in the open world of an island town called Redfall, Massachusetts.

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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.