Posts Tagged ‘GTA’
Rockstar Games Meets Union Leaders for First Recognition Talks
This article is part of a series about Rockstar Games and working conditions in the video games industry. The recently established Rockstar Games Worker’s Union could be a step closer to achieving formal recognition. Leaders within the RGWU report they have had met with Rockstar Games management for the first time to negotiate a voluntary…
Read MoreRockstar Games Workers Union Seeks Formal Recognition
This article is part of a series about Rockstar Games and working conditions in the video games industry. Rockstar Games could become just the second UK games studio with a recognised union after developers applied for voluntary recognition of the IWGB Games Workers Union. Formal recognition of the union would grant additional protections and rights…
Read MoreRockstar Developers Launch UK Union
Developers at Rockstar Games in the United Kingdom have publicly launched the Rockstar Game Workers Union, the studio’s first union, as a legal dispute over the dismissal of 31 workers continues five months before the release of Grand Theft Auto VI. The union, a subsidiary of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain, was announced…
Read MoreNo Relief For Fired Rockstar Devs
As gamers eagerly anticipate the release of ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’, former employees of Rockstar North are awaiting justice. More than 30 employees of the Edinburgh-based Rockstar North studio that develops the highly popular ‘GTA’ series were terminated late last year. Rockstar maintains the employees were fired for ‘gross misconduct’ relating to leaking confidential information…
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