After 21 years as a Rockstar Games large cheese, Dan Houser will go away the corporate in March. He’s co-written virtually each Rockstar game since 1999, together with Grand Theft Auto from London by way of to V, Bully, Max Payne 3, and the Red Dead Redemptions. That’s made him a giant affect on the tone of Rockstar’s games. I’m wondering how that may change as soon as he’s moved on. Where he’s going and what he’ll do subsequent, we don’t know. He can most likely afford to eat pizza whereas watch Heat on loop the remainder of his life, to be trustworthy.
Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar’s mother or father firm, talked about Houser’s departure in a financial filing yesterday:
“After an extended break beginning in the spring of 2019, Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving the company. Dan Houser’s last day will be March 11, 2020. We are extremely grateful for his contributions. Rockstar Games has built some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful game worlds, a global community of passionate fans and an incredibly talented team, which remains focused on current and future projects.”
Houser didn’t write Rockstar’s hits by himself, to be clear, however has appeared an enormous and omnipresent affect – the wordlord hovering over all of it. His DVD assortment has appeared a big affect too, hey-o!
Along together with his brother Sam Houser, Dan has been with Rockstar because the begin again in 1998. Rockstar had been constructed from the scraps of Grand Theft Auto publishers BMG Interactive and, later, GTA creators DMA Design, who had been all been purchased by Take-Two. They’ve made some fairly good games, y’know.
As likelihood would have it, most of the games Houser wrote on are low cost proper now in Steam’s Rockstar sale.
Disclosure: I’ve some buddies who work at Rockstar as a result of I dwell in Edinburgh and statistically on this metropolis you’re by no means greater than ten ft from a Rockstar worker. I don’t assume I’ve ever met Dan Houser? But I may need unknowingly sat subsequent to him on the bus. As if he’d take a bus!
