Rockstar Video games vice chairman of writing Mike Unsworth has reportedly left the Grand Theft Auto VI developer after 16 years. Unsworth’s LinkedIn profile was up to date to point the veteran developer had left Rockstar.
“Mike is an achieved author who spent over 16 years working for Rockstar Video games as a artistic lead on a few of the most critically acclaimed and commercially profitable online game franchises of all time, most notably Grand Theft Auto and Pink Lifeless Redemption,” his profile states.
Unsworth has credit on a lot of the Rockstar massive hits together with Pink Lifeless Redemption and Pink Lifeless Redemption 2, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5, Max Payne 3, and L.A. Noire.
Unsworth joined Rockstar as a senior artistic author in 2007 earlier than stepping up as writing director in 2019. He then served 2 years as VP of writing earlier than his obvious departure. IGN has reached out to Rockstar Video games for affirmation.
His involvement with Rockstar’s upcoming tasks is unclear, and with GTA 6 nonetheless rumored to seem within the close to future, it’s attainable that he might nonetheless get a minimum of another writing credit score on the famend studio.
Rockstar itself has been within the information following a high-profile hack that led to leaked footage from GTA 6 being launched to the general public. It was not too long ago confirmed that the audacious assault was perpetrated, a minimum of partially, by two British youngsters utilizing an Amazon Fireplace Stick whereas on bail for a hack in opposition to Nvidia.
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