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Red Dead Redemption 2’s Strange Tales of the West Update Brings Cryptids to Multiplayer

Bandits aren’t the only things you have to worry about in the weird west. Red Dead Online players will now have to contend with swamp things, automatons and zombies.

Pack your silver bullets and keep your head on a swivel. There’s a bad moon rising over the wild west in Red Dead Online, as four new cryptid-themed missions just released in the game.

You’ll have to take on these quests on behalf of author Theodore Levin, who is investigating outlandish claims from around the country. Strange cases of fearsome monsters, cults and viral outbreaks are exactly the type of pulpy content that could inspire a good story.

The first new telegram mission, Strange Tales of Modern Science, sees players contending with killer robots. But these aren’t exactly Terminators. You’ll be fighting off a tiny tinman army as it stalks the grounds of the Braithwaite Manor.

Another mission, Strange Tales of the Bayou, will have you contending with both human and non-human threats as you wade through Lagras. The Swamp Folk like to ambush hunters who enter their territory — but it’s up to you to bring back the creature from the deep so that Levin can see it for himself.

The Strange Tales of the Wilderness mission is the closest thing to a standard bounty hunt included in the new update. You’ll need to hunt down a gang of murdering bandits in Tall Trees, but rumor has it that a missing scientist might just be experimenting on your foes. Brave the wilderness to take on an evolving manmade threat and bring the gang to justice.

The final mission in the latest batch of content, Strange Tales of the Plague, is an ode to fan-favorite spinoff Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. A mysterious infection is spreading through Armadillo, and the dead are rising yet again. It’s up to you and your friends to put down the shambling horde and bring back their bodies for scientific examination.

If you want to take on these new missions, you’ll need to pick up a letter Levin left for you at the nearest in-game post office or your camp’s mailbox. Afterwards, these cryptid challenges will become repeatable telegram missions.

To celebrate the launch of the Strange Tales of the West update, all telegram missions (including the new batch of pulp fiction content) will have their rewards boosted until Aug. 4. You’ll be able to earn three times as much gold, Red Dead dollars and experience points during this time.

Red Dead Online’s Strange Tales of the West update is available for free now on PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Get ready to lock and load to take down the new telegram missions next time you log in.

This update is a rare treat for Red Dead Redemption 2 fans, as the game’s online mode has been largely neglected in recent years. The previous patch from March 2024 squashed some bugs — and the last update that added any amount of playable content came out in September 2022.

The content drought was so extreme that it spawned a movement with the stated goal of saving Red Dead Online. The change.org petition currently has more than 10,000 signatures.

The Strange Tales of the West update is being marketed as volume one of a broader update, which implies that even more pulp fiction content could be coming down the pipeline for the Red Dead Redemption 2 multiplayer mode sometime soon. The wild west is about to get a whole lot weirder.

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Grammarly Adds Superhuman Email App to Expand Its AI Platform. Here’s What That Could Mean for You

The grammar enforcer’s latest purchase suggests it intends to do more than fix your awkward phrases.

Show of hands: Who’d like to spend less time going through their email? That could be in the offing from Grammarly, which announced it’s expanding its suite of workplace tools with the purchase of Superhuman, an email efficiency tool.

Grammarly, the company behind the popular grammar enforcement app of the same name, has acquired the AI-powered Superhuman app as part of its push to build out its business productivity offerings, the company said in a press release today.  

«Email is the main communication tool for billions of people worldwide and the number-one use case for Grammarly customers,»  Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman, said in a statement. «By joining forces with Grammarly, we will invest even more in the core Superhuman experience, as well as create a new way of working where AI agents collaborate across the communication tools that we all use every day.»

The news follows the grammarian’s 2024 purchase of Coda, a productivity platform that offers a suite of products including document software and spreadsheets. Both acquisitions point to Grammarly’s potential desire to break free of its grammatical roots and compete on a bigger stage with tech titans Google and Microsoft, which have launched their own AI tools (Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot) that operate across all their software products.

Started in 2009, Grammarly is a Ukraine-founded cloud-based typing assistant. It uses AI to help correct basic writing errors, detects plagiarism and suggest edits for your writing across multiple platforms. It even assesses the tone of your writing, although Grammarly, the product, has told me many times that my writing is too sarcastic. Thanks for that brilliant insight, Grammarly. Oh wait, I see what you mean there.

Superhuman‘s website boasts that its email productivity app can help you save four hours every week on email by organizing your inbox and drafting email messages.

Here’s what you need to know about Grammarly’s expansion.

Could Grammarly replace Google Suite?

Grammarly’s recent purchases raise a larger question about the grammar app. Reuters reports that the company is working on a name change that sells it as more than just a writing improvement tool. But could its collection of Coda and Superhuman really make it a viable competitor with the likes of Google Suite?

«My sense is that Grammarly is trying to position itself as the company that sells the next layer on top of workplace software for companies,» said Jon Reed, a CNET senior editor who covers AI.

While versions of generative AI have been criticized for inaccuracies and hallucinations, tech giants continue to invest and expand the use of this technology across all platforms, including chatbots and image generators. To set itself apart from grammar-focused competitors like ProWritingAid and Wordtune, Grammarly may be feeling the heat as it anticipates increased AI adoption.

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