GTA 6 developers buy L.A. Noire director's studio, rename it Rockstar Australia

GTA 6 developers Rockstar Games person announced the acquisition of Video Games Deluxe, the Sydney-based squad who collaborated with them connected the 2017 re-release of L.A. Noire, virtual world spin-off L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files and, astir recently, post-launch updates for Grove Street's Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. The workplace volition present beryllium known arsenic (drum rotation please) Rockstar Australia.

Video Game Deluxe were founded by Brendan McNamara successful 2013. You mightiness retrieve McNamara arsenic the laminitis of archetypal L.A. Noire developer, Team Bondi. Team Bondi had an outsized estimation for agelong hours, tyrannical absorption and precocious turnover, as explored successful an IGN study from 2011 based connected anonymous developer interviews, which led to an probe from the International Game Developers Association. The workplace went into medication aboriginal that year, aft Rockstar announced they would not people their adjacent title.

McNamara and different erstwhile L.A. Noire developers subsequently got unneurotic to marque a spiritual successor, Whore Of The Orient, astatine caller workplace KMM Interactive Entertainment, but the task and workplace were yet shuttered aft publishing spouse Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment pulled funding.

I'm not alert of immoderate reporting astir what it's similar to enactment astatine Video Game Deluxe, who person done bully enactment implicit the years. They're the outfit credited with "saving" Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, a method catastrophe of specified magnitude that Rockstar felt moved to hand retired escaped games arsenic compensation.

It's apt that the recently rebranded Rockstar Australia volition beryllium pitching successful with Grand Theft Auto 6 improvement - Rockstar's latest is due for merchandise connected console aboriginal this year, with a PC merchandise day forthcoming. "It's been an honour to enactment intimately with Rockstar Games this past decade," McNamara said in a connection regarding today's announcement. "We are thrilled to beryllium a portion of Rockstar Games and to proceed our efforts to marque the champion games possible."