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The recent Red Dead Redemption Remake and RDR 2 DLC rumours are fake, leaker admits

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A few days ago, a rumour surfaced about a remake for the first Red Dead Redemption. Now as you may have noticed, we didn’t share that rumour as it appeared to be bogus, and we were right. The leaker has just admitted that it was just an “experiment” to see what sites would spread this rumour.

But let’s take things from the beginning. Reddit’s member throwaway11113454 claimed that he had a friend who was one of the environment artists over at Rockstar Games.

According to that fake leak, Rockstar was working on a proper remake of Red Dead Redemption for current-gen platforms. Moreover, Red Dead Redemption 2 would be getting an alien DLC (or something like that, I didn’t really bother reading that as we do not cover DLCs).

Earlier today, however, throwaway11113454 admitted that those rumours were fake, and were made up in order to see whether big gaming websites would report such rumours.

“There is no dlc for Red Dead Redemption 2 or remake of the first game as far as I know.

This was an experiment I have always wanted to do regarding the spreading of rumors in video game culture. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and wondering how I was going to do it, then I saw red dead online was basically being ignored (most likely not, but the fans are in the dust about it, including me) so this was basically a good starting point for me. So first I thought about here there were a lot of alien references in RDR 2’s story mode, so I started my “leak” on that. I made up a somewhat believable story that my “friend from rockstar” told me. (Real original right?) then I put in small details I thought in my head would make sense such as “Still playing as Arthur”. But I stayed real vague just to build up some speculation. Then I thought of what I wanted out of a story dlc. I wanted a remake of the first game with all of the bells and whistles of the recent game. And the rest is pretty much history, so I expected it to be ignored and the next day I open my reddit and I see the biggest notification list I have ever had! I was simply amazed at how my bullshit rumors could blow up, a couple of hours later I went on the google app, and it has tabs with news, and at the very top was this article by comicbook (who report on every rumor from this subreddit almost) https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/07/20/red-dead-redemption-remake-ps4-ps5-xbox-scarlett-rockstar-games/ And that’s when things got real, so I let people build more speculation for a couple of days. And sure enough, one of the gaming sites I read on reported on it https://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemption-dlc-aliens-leak/ . Then I was curious of the YouTube videos being made, and sure enough there were! https://youtu.be/fF6pCsZNIf4 this was at the very top! And he drank every sip of my tea, and judging by his comment section, they didn’t! I was wondering if there were videos were people didn’t believe me and sure enough there was one by Fizhy! https://youtu.be/kRmVK_9xXsw . Then I realized I was getting to many peoples hopes up, so I decided to write this post. And through this experiment I learned that some people will believe anything that someone says if it sounds believable. And also that mass media is a powerful tool, over 70k people atleast have seen this fake leak that I wrote, and I’m glad that a majority of people saw through it! From now on the original leak will stay up unless the mods say otherwise but I will link this to clarify it was all fake! Thanks for listening!”

Well played throwaway11113454. From the beginning this rumour appeared fake to us as it was based on someone’s friend, without providing any proper evidence whatsoever. This is why we did not publish this rumour and it appears we were right.