Anyone who spent a significant amount of time exploring the Wild West in 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2, is guaranteed to have memories of a distraught Englishman by the name of Nigel searching for his dear friend Gavin. Nigel appears in small towns, along winding roads, and big cities across the game’s five states, incessantly calling out Gavin’s name.
The mystery of who Gavin is, whether he can be found, and why Nigel is searching for him has been one of the most popular enigmas in a game chock-full of them. And all these years later, one of Rockstar Games’ co-founders finally spilled the beans on why this puzzling NPC was dangled in front of the player at all. Spoiler: We may have all been duped.
