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Is it coming back?!
- by Ben Kerry
Three years ago, Rockstar Games basically pulled the plug on Red Dead Online; ending development on major updates for the game to focus on making GTA 6. Well, this week (in typically random Rockstar fashion), the team has added “a new set of four eerie Telegram Missions” for the first time in years that channel serious Undead Nightmare energy from the first Red Dead Redemption.
Yep, these Telegram Missions ask RDO players to “track down undead plagues, rogue automations, swamp beasts, and more”. The new Red Dead Online missions have gone live today, July 1st, in Rockstar’s first major update for the title since 2022 – and they’re apparently ‘Volume 1‘, with more to come in future.
Since this new update is now out in the wild, we’re starting to see more footage of it crop up online too – and anyone who played RDR’s Undead Nightmare expansion may be getting serious flashbacks here. There even appears to be a zombie ‘horde mode’ objective tucked into these missions, where players are tasked with killing infected and returning them to a stationed wagon.
For now, this is just a seemingly casual update to Red Dead Online (with more to come), but it does spark questions of whether something bigger is inbound for Red Dead Redemption 2. We’ve still not had a proper Xbox Series X|S update for the game yet, and what better way to do that than pairing it with a return to Undead Nightmare? Nothing is confirmed on that for now, but it might be worth keeping your eyes peeled in the coming months as we await GTA 6’s release in May 2026.
What do you make of all this? Talk to us about RDR and Undead Nightmare down in the comments.
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.
