Rockstar closes Vienna office, lays off 1,000

May 12th, 2006 Posted in Action, Business, PlayStation 2, Sports

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Rockstar Games, makers of Grand Theft Auto have closed down their Vienna office and fired the 1,000 programmers and artists. The Vienna department was responsible for porting the GTA series to Xbox and Max Payne 2 to PlayStation 2.

Rockstar closed the office because of “due to the challenging environment facing the video game business and our Company during this platform transition.”

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2 Responses to “Rockstar closes Vienna office, lays off 1,000”

  1. Roy Says:

    May 12th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    Shocking! -rokc2ck7



  2. bilbo Says:

    February 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am

    i have come up with an idea for a new game which i think ROCKSTAR would be most suitable to make, but im having trouble finding an address of thers to write. has anyone got an address please i would be much appreciated, any help please.



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