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Rockstar Games Co-Founder Dan Houser Leaving the Company on March 11

Rockstar Games Co-Founder Dan Houser Leaving the Company on March 11 - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 February 2020 / 2,714 Views

Rockstar Games vice president and co-founder Dan Houser will be leaving the company on March 11, announced parent company Take-Two.

"After an extended break beginning in the spring of 2019, Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving the company," said Take-Two Interactive in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

"Dan Houser’s last day will be March 11, 2020. We are extremely grateful for his contributions. Rockstar Games has built some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful game worlds, a global community of passionate fans and an incredibly talented team, which remains focused on current and future projects."


Dan Houser's writing credits include the two Red Dead Redemption games, Grand Theft Auto V, Bully, and Max Payne 3.

He has been on break from the company since spring 2019, which  follows the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 and a period of patches to the core game.

Thanks VentureBeat.


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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7 Comments
JEMC (on 05 February 2020)

Surprising news. I hope he's leaving because he wants to enjoy life.
It will be interesting to see if his departure has any impact on future Rockstar games.

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JEMC JEMC (on 05 February 2020)

If their focus changes it will have more to do with the success of GTA Online than with the departure of Dan Houser. And well, there's still his brother Sam to keep things under control.

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SanAndreasX JEMC (on 05 February 2020)

GTA Online has already changed their future plans. They could probably just run that indefinitely and still make money without doing anything else. Take-Two is in great shape so I'm betting it's because Dan wants to just enjoy his life.

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DonFerrari (on 05 February 2020)

Let's see if he will go be head of one MS studio or if Sony is going to poach him and make a new studio.

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SwitchUP DonFerrari (on 05 February 2020)

No clue why the downvotes... its exactly what I immediately thought. Microsoft should jump all over him if hes willing... before sony does. They need the talent more.

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mjk45 DonFerrari (on 05 February 2020)

One should take Houser the other Leslie benzies and make them mascots with competing games.

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