LA Noire director returns to Rockstar ahead of GTA 6, as studio buys GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition developer and renames it Rockstar Australia

Rockstar Video games has made an an acquisition forward of GTA 6, bringing Sydney-based developer Video Video games Deluxe – which it labored with on The GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition – into the fold and renaming it Rockstar Australia.

The transfer brings LA Noire director Brendan McNamara again to Rockstar, with the developer having based Video Video games Deluxe after departing now-defunct LA Noire studio Crew Bondi.

“After working collectively carefully over a few years, we’re excited to have Video Video games Deluxe be a part of the staff as Rockstar Australia,” Rockstar Video games’ head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe stated in a launch on the acquisition printed by BusinessWire.

Video Video games Deluxe and Rockstar have collabed on the likes of LA Noire’s re-release, its VR Case Information, and most lately on an replace to the GTA Trilogy: Definitive Version. This was the update that adopted the latter’s unique model being criticised for its poor quality, one thing which a distinct studio – Grove Road Video games – has taken the brunt of ther flack for, with the replace having prompted GSG’s CEO to counsel it scrubbing some mentions of Grove Road Video games from the sport was a “dick transfer”.

As famous, buying Video Video games Deluxe additionally brings LA Noire director Brendan McNamara, who additionally based that recreation’s developer Crew Bondi, again to Rockstar. Crew Bondi shut its doorways again in 2011, having confronted allegations of bad working conditions and crunch culture, one thing McNamara responded to on the time.

“It’s been an honor to work carefully with Rockstar Video games this previous decade,” McNamara stated within the launch about Video Video games Deluxe turning into Rockstar Australia, “We’re thrilled to be part of Rockstar Video games and to proceed our efforts to make the most effective video games potential.”

We’ll seemingly not know for certain whether or not Rockstar Australia will probably be lending a hand on GTA 6‘s growth till the sport’s out, nevertheless it looks like a setup that’d probably make sense, given the sport’s bearing down its presently pencilled in Fall launch window.

That is for the sport’s console launch – Rockstar’s but to provide phrase on a PC launch window, regardless of some latest and shortly walked-back comments from an exec at the company behind some hardcore gamer mood lighting.