Red Dead Redemption 2 will now debut on October 26.
Red Dead Redemption 2 debuted on October 26.
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Take-Two’s summer earnings are the calm before the Red Dead Redemption 2 storm

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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For Take-Two Interactive Software, it’s the calm before the storm. The New York company reported better-than-expected financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, but the company has the most-anticipated game of the year, Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2, coming on October 26. That’s when the company could kick off another big hit cycle.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is the sequel the blockbuster 2010 game Red Dead Redemption, and expectations are so high for it that numerous game companies have moved their rival game releases as far as possible from Red Dead’s release date. They’re giving Red Dead Redemption 2 a wide berth.

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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.