GTA Writer & Rockstar Games CoFounder Dan Houser Is Leaving

GTA Writer & Rockstar Games Co-Founder Dan Houser Is Leaving

Co-founder of Rockstar Games and former Executive Producer of the Grand Theft Auto series, Dan Houser, has announced he is leaving the company.



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GTA Writer & Rockstar Games CoFounder Dan Houser Is Leaving

Dan Houser, one of the co-founders of Rockstar Games and an instrumental figure in the development of the long-running Grand Theft Auto franchise, is now departing the company, according to a new report. Houser was an integral part of many of Rockstar Games’ most popular franchises, including Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and Bully. He and his brother Sam Houser, Rockstar’s other co-founder, were both once featured as two of TIME Magazine’s most influential people in 2009, due largely to the mainstream success and popularity of the Grand Theft Auto series.

Although many of their games have both thrived on and been influenced by controversy surrounding things like the portrayal of violence in media, Sam & Dan Houser have seen nothing but success in their created properties. Grand Theft Auto V, on which Dan Houser worked as a writer, has become the most popular piece of entertainment media of all time since its release back in 2013, and ended up being the best-selling video game of the entire decade. Now, however, it seems like Dan Houser is ready to step away.

According to a report by Polygon, Take-Two Interactive released a statement earlier this afternoon which announced Dan Houser, the company’s current Vice President, would be leaving Rockstar Games entirely, and his last day will be on March 11th of this year. The statement goes on to say the company is “extremely grateful for his contributions,” and says that they have built “some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful game world, a global community of passionate fans and an incredibly talent team, which remain focused on current and future projects.”

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This final statement about “current and future projects” is likely in the hopes of not worrying fans or stockholders, as the departure of Dan Houser is surely to cause a change-up in the day-to-day machinations of Rockstar Games. Losing someone whose creative voice was so integral to so many of the franchise’s best titles would certainly be troubling for them, especially since, according to the report, this announcement arrived just two days before a company quarterly earnings analysis, which will likely come later this week.

The real question on many players’ minds likely relates to how this new departure inside Rockstar Games will affect the production of Grand Theft Auto 6, which has been heavily rumored to currently be in development. While companies as large as Rockstar likely lose and gain new employees all the time, the loss of such a prominent figure in both the company and the games industry as a whole is certainly surprising to many, and it will be intriguing to see how the Grand Theft Auto series, and Rockstar Games as a company, moves forward in the future.

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