A hidden spiderweb puzzle in Red Dead Redemption 2 went unnoticed for years. Just as players were making progress, they realized they may have missed its opening move: a seven-year-old pentagram mystery they had been treating as something separate.
The industry narrative is simple: publishers fled GTA 6 and piled into September. A game-by-game look shows the pattern is real, but the evidence behind it is far more fragmented than the story suggests.
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