Grand Theft Auto studio Rockstar has introduced that it’s going to purchase Video Video games Deluxe, the studio based by former Group Bondi head and LA Noire director Brendan McNamara.
In a press launch, Rockstar confirms the acquisition and likewise proclaims that Video Video games Deluxe might be renamed to Rockstar Australia. The 2 studios do not reveal what they will be engaged on collectively.
For his half, McNamara says his studio is “thrilled” to be part of Rockstar and that the newly-minted Australian wing will “proceed [its] efforts to make the perfect video games potential”. Rockstar publishing head Jennifer Kolbe, in the meantime, says it is “thrilling” so as to add Rockstar Australia to the studio’s lineup.
When you’re questioning the place you have heard Video Video games Deluxe’s identify earlier than, it is the studio liable for the 2017 re-release of LA Noire, which noticed the sport ported to consoles full with all of its previously-released DLC.
The studio can also be liable for creating that very same 12 months’s LA Noire: The VR Case Information, which serves as a kind of remake-slash-reimagining of the unique LA Noire. It follows the identical story, however its instances are distinctive and constructed from the bottom up for VR.
Together with its work on LA Noire, Video Video games Deluxe additionally labored on the cellular variations of the ill-received Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Version, though it isn’t the developer initially liable for creating these remasters.
Final we heard, Video Video games Deluxe was engaged on an open-world sport for Rockstar, though we have not heard a lot about that venture because it was first unveiled again in 2020. It is not talked about within the press launch, both, so presumably the 2 studios aren’t able to reveal it but.
As for Rockstar, the studio is presently gearing up for the discharge of tentpole sandbox sport Grand Theft Auto 6, which is presently anticipated to land in fall (though no official launch date has been given for the sport but).
The GTA writer additionally just lately launched a long-awaited replace for the PC model of GTA 5, including beforehand console-exclusive options and technical enhancements to the sport.
