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Hmm, judging from the downvotes it appears my comment relied on some sort of industry knowledge people don't know about perhaps? Rockstar is the studio formerl
by Danieru 6y ago
Hmm, judging from the downvotes it appears my comment relied on some sort of industry knowledge people don't know about perhaps?
Rockstar is the studio formerly known as DMA Designs. DMA Designs is/was a british studio. DMA later changed their name to Rockstar. At one point yes, a subsidiary of Rockstar created GTA.
Rockstar was later purchased by Take-Two. This was during the era publishers often strong armed their developers into acquisitions so no doubt there was some bullying involved. Take-Two receives a large portion of the major UK games development subsidy pot[1].
Take-Two has now, as per this article, buying yet another UK devloper/publisher. The UK games industry is getting hollowed out. All while the UK public is subsidizing the very companies performing the surgery.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/oct/02/revealed-global-video-games-giants-avoiding-millions-in-uk-tax-sony-sega https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/oct/02/revealed-globa...
- robk 6y agoWhere are the subsidies coming from though? I'm not aware of any gaming subsidy from hmrc
- Danieru 6y agoStraight from the tax department: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claiming-video-games-tax-relief-for-corporation-tax https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claiming-video-games-tax-relief-... Notice how the site claims cultural "British-ness" to be a requirement. Yet in reality GTA V passed this apparently low barrier. More likely the British-ness requirement is nothing more than a fig-leaf to appease the European Commission.
- jl6 6y agoFor what it’s worth, I do recognise a lot of the dark/surrealist humour in GTA as British, even though it is delivered through the medium of Americana.
- ajsnigrutin 6y agoGTA 6 - Britain, cast of players from Snatch (movie), and one star cops being unarmed, would be a fun game tho.
- nvrspyx 6y agoI'd love for GTA to go back to London (i.e. expansion packs for the first GTA). I'm ready to explore somewhere other than Liberty City, Vice City, or San Andreas, especially since the last one excluded a lot of areas from the original San Andreas.
- bserge 6y agoThe newest Watch Dogs is set in London, I believe. I've only watched the trailer, though.
- alexandargyurov 6y agoYes, it is! And they've done a superb job in my opinion. Very strange seeing your city in a video game - wish there were more London, or European city, based open world games.