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Cowboy games – they’re not as popular with game developers as you’d think. Rockstar gave us some of the best Western games, and it feels like a lot of other developers barred the shutters and hid away ...

Despite being a relatively popular genre, we don’t get too many games set in the Wild West. That’s a bit of a surprise, especially considering how successful cowboy-centric games like Red Dead ...

The Western, as a genre, has fascinated audiences in almost all forms of media. From pulp western novels to comic books to the on-screen Westerns, the wild west has a lot of resonance for Americans ...