[Shaun]

With a single logo image, Rockstar Games has seemingly begun teasing an announcement on the future of the Red Dead franchise.

A wordless tweet (below) features the Rockstar logo on top of the mottled red texture used in art for Red Dead Redemption, leading many to believe the announcement of a sequel is incoming.

Following the tweet, Rockstar posted a similar image as a news story on its Newswire website, and changed the avatars and banners on its Twitter and Facebook pages to match the series' black and red motif.

A Red Dead Redemption sequel has been rumoured for some time, following the apparent leak of the game's map (tellingly featuring the city of New Bordeaux, the setting for fellow Take-Two published game, Mafia 3). That same leak suggested the game would be a prequel, and be set slightly to the east of the last game's setting.

Take-Two recently announced that Rockstar was "of course hard at work on some exciting future projects that will be revealed soon."

The last time Rockstar announced a new game - Grand Theft Auto V in 2011 - it used a similar tactic, saying very little initially and releasing a first trailer the week after. However, that announcement did come with a game logo and a date for the trailer, so it's by no means assured that this reveal will be handled in the same way.

Of course, there's also chance that this could be a current-gen re-release of Red Dead Redemption, in the vein of Grand Theft Auto V. Redemption was recently made backwards compatible on Xbox One, leading to a sales rise for Xbox 360 copies of 6000%.

We awarded Red Dead Redemption a massive 9.7 review when it arrived in 2010, and went on to name it the 29th best game of all time. Its lasting effects have been huge, going beyond even games to influence other media - Jonathan Nolan named it as a key influence on the new Westworld TV series, for instance.

As soon as we learn more, we'll update this story.

From IGN

[Will.]

I loved this game.

[LeatherTrumpet]

big fave in the LT household

[Shaun]

I didn't get very far in playing it because I bought it about 3 years after it came out, with a bunch of other games when I finally got the PS3 but it did seem to be excellent

[Tom4784]

I'm not ready.

[Shaun]

[LaLaLand]

PLEASE omg I loved the first one.

[Toy Soldier]

Still waiting for a new "Bully", personally...

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

yay

[reece(:]

Snatch me

[Jordan.]

[Tom4784]

I don't think I ever recovered from the ending of the first one.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I don't think I ever recovered from the ending of the first one.

I thought Red Dead 1 was a bit substandard

Spoiler:

[Tom4784]

I meant Red Dead Redemption, I forgot Revolver existed

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I meant Red Dead Redemption, I forgot Revolver existed

I think everyone does Revolver wasnt actually a R* game if I recall, they bought the rights to the franchise I think

[Jordan.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I don't think I ever recovered from the ending of the first one.

A piece of me died too.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I meant Red Dead Redemption, I forgot Revolver existed

So did Rockstar
http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption2/

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Chewy

So did Rockstar
http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption2/

To be fair, as the original wasn't called Redemption, technically this can still be RDR2 . That said I don't think R* are all that keen to have the games historically linked... especially if they're going with "Redemption 2" rather than "Red Dead R[whatever new name]".

It was released and developed by R* though. I just don't think it lived up to their vision of a Western game that they really wanted to make; and so the title of Red Dead Redemption has a bit of a double meaning (the redemption of the character, but also the creation of the game they really wanted to make the first time around).

[Shaun]

lovely stuff

[Ramsay]

Prequel city. Fuming though, I owe my mate a tenner cause i bet that it'd be called Red Dead R----something. Derrrrp

[Jordan.]

Yas at a trailer tomorrow.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

sinner's prayer to feature in the trailer?

[Drew.]

Those graphics

[Shaun]

here 4 it

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Drew.

Those graphics

Can't see it running at a decent frame rate with effects like those on the vanilla PS4 and Xbone. One suspects these are 4Pro / Scorpio level.

(To be more specific, the current gen can't handle those godrays, the mist, the smoke effects or the particle effects [dust and debris] when the horses are running at the end... probably not at all, but definitely not over 30fps.)