Rockstar Video games has made an an acquisition forward of GTA 6, bringing Sydney-based developer Video Video games Deluxe – which it labored with on The GTA Trilogy: Definitive Version – into the fold and renaming it Rockstar Australia.
The transfer brings LA Noire director Brendan McNamara again to Rockstar, with the developer having based Video Video games Deluxe after departing now-defunct LA Noire studio Staff Bondi.
“After working collectively intently over a few years, we’re excited to have Video Video games Deluxe be a part of the group as Rockstar Australia,” Rockstar Video games’ head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe stated in a launch on the acquisition revealed by BusinessWire.
Video Video games Deluxe and Rockstar have collabed on the likes of LA Noire’s re-release, its VR Case Recordsdata, and most lately on an replace to the GTA Trilogy: Definitive Version. This was the replace that adopted the latter’s authentic model being criticised for its poor high quality, one thing which a special studio – Grove Avenue Video games – has taken the brunt of ther flack for, with the replace having prompted GSG’s CEO to recommend it scrubbing some mentions of Grove Avenue Video games from the sport was a “dick transfer”.
As famous, buying Video Video games Deluxe additionally brings LA Noire director Brendan McNamara, who additionally based that recreation’s developer Staff Bondi, again to Rockstar. Staff Bondi shut its doorways again in 2011, having confronted allegations of dangerous working circumstances and crunch tradition, one thing McNamara responded to on the time.
“It’s been an honor to work intently with Rockstar Video games this previous decade,” McNamara stated within the launch about Video Video games Deluxe changing into Rockstar Australia, “We’re thrilled to be part of Rockstar Video games and to proceed our efforts to make the perfect video games potential.”
We’ll possible not know for positive whether or not Rockstar Australia can be lending a hand on GTA 6‘s growth till the sport’s out, nevertheless it looks like a setup that’d probably make sense, given the sport’s bearing down its at the moment pencilled in Fall launch window.
That is for the sport’s console launch – Rockstar’s but to provide phrase on a PC launch window, regardless of some current and rapidly walked-back feedback from an exec on the firm behind some hardcore gamer temper lighting.
