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Rockstar Vienna - Closed by Take Two


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Rockstar's Vienna studio has reportedly been closed by Take Two recently, according to the blog of Jurie Horneman, an employee.

Horneman says:

This morning, as I came into work, I was greeted by security guards. It turned out Take-Two has closed their Rockstar Vienna office, effective immediately, "due to the challenging environment facing the video game business and our Company during this platform transition".

After reading this I headed on over to the Rockstar Vienna website but it appears it is down at the moment, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

For those of you who don't know, Rockstar Vienna worked on the the Max Payne series, as well as the Xbox versions of GTA3 and Vice City.

Rockstar Vienna's closure leaves over 100 developers without a job.

Source: GameSpot, Intelligent Artifice

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I agree with TVG, it's probably over with R*'s Max Payne. Maybe next Max Payne will be released by somebody other, maybe it won't be released at all. Too bad, I liked Max Payne I & II very much, it was so damn fun to dive into the air while in slow motion and then kill 10 enemies with dual wield guns.

R* Vienna was probably just spending money, not producing games, so it was logical that it'll get closed sooner or later. Although I think that R* can be a sucessful company even if it produces only GTAs. Most of their games weren't popular at all, and for lots of them you've probably never heard of.

And to everyone that mentioned GTA in this topic: Read t3h 1st post!

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I agree with TVG, it's probably over with R*'s Max Payne. Maybe next Max Payne will be released by somebody other, maybe it won't be released at all. Too bad, I liked Max Payne I & II very much, it was so damn fun to dive into the air while in slow motion and then kill 10 enemies with dual wield guns.

R* Vienna was probably just spending money, not producing games, so it was logical that it'll get closed sooner or later. Although I think that R* can be a sucessful company even if it produces only GTAs. Most of their games weren't popular at all, and for lots of them you've probably never heard of.

And to everyone that mentioned GTA in this topic: Read t3h 1st post!

:cigar: do you think they will bring out a max payne for psp? :erm:

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If you've read my post, I said that I think there won't be any more Max Paynes form R* at all. All that they need is GTA, if you ask me.

: :pissed: well i want a max payne on psp :pissed:

:cry: i mean it would be well cool max payne would be just right for the psp

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Does this mean their won't be anymore XBOX GTA games? I own an XBOX and all my GTA games are on it and it would be horrible for no more games. Actually there aren't going to any more GTA games on PS2 and XBOX except maybe LCS (released for xbox since they already have a PS2 version) and VCS if they make a PS2 version. Then the others are going to be on PS3 and XBOX 360.

Never mind. I should have read the post more carefully. I read it from the home page first and it said that Rockstar Vienna made the XBOX versions of the games so I was kind of worried. It only says that they made the GTA3 and Vice City verisons and they already have a San Andreas for the XBOX so it should be okay.

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