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Rockstar co-founder and head writer Dan Houser is leavingHe co-wrote almost every Rockstar hit
He co-wrote almost every Rockstar hit
After 21 years as a Rockstar Games big cheese, Dan Houser will leave the company in March. He’s co-written almost every Rockstar game since 1999, includingGrand Theft Autofrom London through to V, Bully,Max Payne 3, and the Red Dead Redemptions. That’s made him a big influence on the tone of Rockstar’s games. I wonder how that might change once he’s moved on. Where he’s going and what he’ll do next, we don’t know. He can probably afford to eat pizza while watching Heat on loop the rest of his life, to be honest.
Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar’s parent company, mentioned Houser’s departure ina financial filingyesterday:
“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.”
As chance would have it, many of the games Houser wrote on are cheap right now inSteam’s Rockstar sale.
Disclosure: I have some pals who work at Rockstar because I live in Edinburgh and statistically in this city you’re never more than ten feet from a Rockstar employee. I don’t think I’ve ever met Dan Houser? But I might have unknowingly sat next to him on the bus. As if he’d take a bus!
