Is Rockstar’s teaser really for Red Dead Redemption 2 or just a red herring?

Rockstar Games set the internet alight over the weekend thanks to a single tweet. It didn’t even have any accompanying words, just the company logo on a red background, but that was enough to receive almost 100,000 retweets and 170,000 likes.

It’s because many are seeing it as confirmation that the company has been working on a sequel to a game many hold in even higher regard than the Grand Theft Auto series: Red Dead Redemption.

And considering the timing of the teaser tweet, we might be about to find out more about it very, very soon.

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— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) October 16, 2016

Of course, it might have simply been a posting to highlight the fact that PlayStation 2 classic Red Dead Revolver is now available on the PS Store for PS4. Or that Red Dead Redemption might make it onto PlayStation Now to match the fact that it is already on Xbox One through backwards compatibility.

However, either of those would result in the formation of an angry mob carrying pitchforks. Indeed, we’d probably be waving around garden utensils ourselves.

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Surely it is for Red Dead Redemption 2. After all, a slew of rumours about the game circulated this summer – specifically around E3 time. A map was leaked on NeoGaf, alleged to be a design guide. And Take-Two has previously said that Red Dead Redemption was as important a franchise as GTA. Considering there have only been two games in the series so far, which originally came out in 2004 and 2010 respectively, we’re about due another one.

And as a mere tweet of a logo has garnered such interest, there’s certainly the market for it.

Watch this space.