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Rumor: Rockstar buys Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian Games, rebrands to Rockstar Dundee
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yeah i know that, it's just a wish of mine lol
but afaik rockstar said that VI will be a "smaller" game, probably there's some room to release some more shit
Yeah, no need for the "rumour" tag, Companies House is the corporate register for the UK, so anything major of note (such as an acquisition and a rename) has to be listed. Considering how many people are chasing the GTA6 dragon, I'm surprised that it took them 12 days to spot the acquisition (and six days for the rename).
Yup, good for them cause it'll be steady work, but it's insane how much support some of these AAA games need. Also, with how long the next game is taking it should be absolutely massive. Wild that they've been pimping out online for so long.
And the head of Ruffian was one of the level designers on the original GTA. It's a small, small industry.
Yep.Rockstar Dundee today...
Rockstar Dundee in two years...
I reckon they'll be a support studio but having the Rockstar name on a Dundee studio is some nice poetry considering GTA's roots in the city (and a boon for the city in general).
Wonder if Leslie Benzie's new venture might have been eyeing that studio as well to make their GTA 6 competitor.
Pretty much all Rockstar studios are support studios.
San Diego and North are the ones leading development on GTA and RDR and the rest are supporting.
Nice! Great news for all involved! The folks are ruffian are a great bunch and I hope this leads to even bigger and better things!
Doubtful?
Ruffian's already got a history working with Rockstar North and have been hiring for a while explicitly for working on a Rockstar project.
lol the link already changed everything to being RockStar DundeeInteresting acquisition, since Crackdown 2 they've done a whole lot of smaller/assistant work it seems.
Rockstar Dundee - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
how fast
Its legit. Ruffian Games was closed on October 6th, 2020, now listed as Rockstar Dundee.
Rockstar back to their roots.
ROCKSTAR DUNDEE LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
ROCKSTAR DUNDEE LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activityfind-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
I see what you did there.
Folks that made red dead 2 got bought because of they did a good job of porting max payne to game boy advance right? or was that the gta v folks?
RDR2 was made by the entirety fo Rockstar's worldwide studios. I don't think a single studio is billed as the "lead" anymore, that's just the way they operate now.
The studio most credited for Red Dead Redemption 1 was Rockstar San Diego, who used to be Angel Studios and were around since the N64 days (they were one of Nintendo's N64 "Dream Team" studios along with DMA who would become Rockstar North and made the Ken Griffey Jr baseball games IIRC)
Googled, it was rockstar leads. Seems like the mainly do support stuff outside of Max Payne 3
This was already in the OP. Just because this user decided to post something on Twitter that was simply just 'sharing an article' doesn't automatically mean it's 'Official' btw. No need to quote his Twitter feed.
Great news for Ruffian and Dundee. Spent a good few years with them (that's where my avatar came from) :D
Happy for the team there, although given their development history and the structure of Rockstar it's almost certainly just to be another support studio on GTA and/or RDR.
Crackdown 2 wasn't really their fault for being underwhelming. Even Phil Spencer has acknowledged in hindsight that they didn't give the studio enough time on that game.
Crackdown 2 wasn't really their fault for being underwhelming. Even Phil Spencer has acknowledged in hindsight that they didn't give the studio enough time on that game.
well, i certainly would rather work on gta/rdr assets than, say... *checks wiki*
crackdown 3 wrecking zone, Kinect sesame street...
