Edinburgh-based Rockstar North regularly enjoys the right to tax benefits in the UK. The Scotsman claims that between April 2015 and March 2023, the company requested a tax deduction from the country’s authorities in the amount of £360.3 million ($453.7 million).

On the morning of November 8, journalist Jason Schreier citing sources, he said that Rockstar Games is fully announcing GTA VI this week. The rumors reflected well on the shares of the parent company of Rockstar Games — Take-Two Interactive.

A London court ruled that 18-year-old hacker Arion Kurtaj was involved in hacking the internal network of Rockstar Games and leaking fragments of GTA VI. The hacker attack was carried out in September 2022.

The team joined Rockstar Games Cfx.re , known for FiveM and RedM, the company’s multiplayer game frameworks. All terms of cooperation are not disclosed.

Joost van Dreunen, the former head of the now closed analytical company SuperData, calculated the possible sales of GTA VI on release. They turned out to be lower than GTA V.

It became the most popular tweet about video games.

This was written on Twitter by a user under the nickname teapotuberhacker. The hacker who leaked GTA VI materials to the network had the same nickname.

The FBI, as well as the US Department of Justice, was contacted by Uber, which was also recently hacked. She believes that the same hacker group — Lapsus$ – is behind the attack on her, Rockstar Games, Ubisoft, Nvidia, Microsoft and a number of other technology companies.

Jeronimo Barrera, a former vice president of Rockstar Games, also joined the board of consultants of the platform.

A letter confirming the leak was published on the official Twitter account of Rockstar Games.

The creators of GTA VI have not yet commented on the leak, however, at their request, the GTAForums administration removed the merged materials and all links. A number of YouTube videos have also disappeared.

In March last year, Dan Houser left the Rockstar Games company, which he and his brother headed for two decades. But perhaps he will continue to play video games. Documents about the registration of a new company, in which Hauser is listed as a director, surfaced on the web.

Scottish studio Ruffian Games, known for working on Crackdown 2 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection, became part of Rockstar. As a result of the takeover and rebranding, the company received a new name — Rockstar Dundee.According to data from the UK Registration Chamber, on October 6, Ruffian Games came under the control of Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games.

Rockstar Games has joined the fight against the coronavirus, and it has serious intentions. From April 1 to May 31, the company will donate 5% of GTA Online and Red Dead Online revenue for the treatment of patients.

Last night it became known that Dan Hauser, after two decades, still decided to leave Rockstar Games. We analyze what exactly he did in the company and why his departure is considered an important event in the modern industry.

Grand Theft Auto V is not the highest-grossing entertainment media product in history. The initial statement of the financial information and analytics site MarketWatch was incorrect. For comparison, the revenues of the role-playing MMO World of Warcraft by 2017 reached $ 10 billion — almost twice as much as the revenue of GTA V for all time.

Grand Theft Auto V continues to sell millions 4 years after its release. Total sales of the game exceeded 85 million copies, with the last 5 million sold from May to November of this year.

40% of American players are women. Of these, 56% consider themselves midcore or hardcore gamers (39% and 17%, respectively).

Rockstar Games has posted one of its best console games on the App Store – a gangster action game about the 80s Vice City.