Posts Tagged ‘Rockstar’
GTA VI and the End of Owning Games
The countdown is on, and the publicity machine is in high gear, for the impending release of Grand Theft Auto VI. But one detail has cut through the usual cycle of trailers, pre-orders and speculation: Rockstar Games has revealed that the boxed “physical” edition of GTA VI will not actually contain a disc. Instead, customers…
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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