Introduction In October 2018, Take-Two Interactive announced that with over $725 million in worldwide retail sell-through during its first three days, Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) had “achieved the single-biggest opening weekend in the history of entertainment” (Business … Continued
The narrative of Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) and the way it is constructed have not only influenced contemporary television, but also video games. In this article, I analyze the critically acclaimed adventure game, Kentucky Route Zero (2013–2020), to discover meaningful connections to the creative work of David Lynch.
The main focus in this article is to examine how Western themes were utilized and replicated in video games and how the reduction of these themes was often played to the extreme – in other words, how the West was remediated across different media.