Rockstar 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 completed author who spent over 16 years working for Rockstar Games as a artistic lead on a number of the most critically acclaimed and commercially profitable online game franchises of all time, most notably Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption,” his profile states.
Unsworth has credit on many of the Rockstar large hits together with Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead 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 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 doable that he may nonetheless get at the least yet 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 lately confirmed that the audacious assault was perpetrated, at the least partly, by two British youngsters utilizing an Amazon Fire Stick whereas on bail for a hack towards Nvidia.
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