Rockstar Giving Red Dead Cheaters a Chance at Redemption

August 18, 2010 9:00 AM

Although it plans to execute cheating gamers with a revolver loaded with banhammer-branded bullets next Tuesday, Rockstar San Diego is giving Red Dead Redemption frauds one last chance to save themselves from the upcoming hail of bullets.

Players who do not want their Gamertags and/or PSN ID permabanned from the Western-themed shooter's online mode can redeem themselves by deleting all hacked games saves currently housed on their console. Yes, that also includes single-players saves. According to Rockstar, players who remove all that filthy content will walk away from the Great Banning of August 24 unscathed.

For a more detailed breakdown of the upcoming banhammer extravaganza, check out Rockstar Games' official blog.

Xav de Matos

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Lucien Irenicus

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August 18, 2010 9:14 AM

Wow. Was cheating really that big of a problem? On consoles no less?
- Ebu
  
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  August 18, 2010 9:24 AM
  
  You can copy save games off system, edit them on PC, and copy them back.
  - triton666
    
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    August 18, 2010 10:21 AM
    
    Can you do this for any game, or was this a oversight?
    - Ebu
      
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      August 18, 2010 10:46 AM
      
      Most games allow it. Some actively block it, but you can download a lot of saves for PSP and PS3 games.
- SigmaDraconis
  
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  August 18, 2010 9:25 AM
  
  Where there's a way, there's a grief.