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Rockstar Purchases Ruffian Games, Forming Rockstar Dundee


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On 10/12/2020 at 2:42 PM, Spider-Vice said:

I personally bet on black and white like their corporate logo, or yellow and blue like their current Twitter avatar.

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This is their twitter avatar. I could totally see that now a yellow and blue Rockstar logo.

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Take-Two Interactive press release:

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2020-- Rockstar Games® is proud to announce that it has acquired Ruffian Games. Based in Dundee, Scotland, the studio will operate under the new name of Rockstar Dundee. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

“We are thrilled to have Ruffian join the Rockstar Games family,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “The Ruffian team are a talented addition to Rockstar’s global studios, and we look forward to working together on future projects.”

Founded in 2008 by Gary Liddon and Billy Thomson, Ruffian partnered with Microsoft to work on the Crackdown series, and with 343 Industries on Halo: Reach from the Halo Master Chief Collection, among many other projects. Ruffian’s talented team of just over 40 have a depth of development experience that even includes some early Rockstar titles from the Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt series. Both Liddon and Thomson will remain on-board as Co-Studio Directors of Rockstar Dundee.

“We are incredibly excited to be joining the Rockstar team,” said Billy Thompson, Co-Founder of Ruffian. “Not only do we have the opportunity to work on some of the most successful entertainment properties in the world, but Rockstar’s investment in our studio is a great sign for the continued expansion of game development here in Scotland.”

 

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10 (ten) subsidiaries as of now and not a single piece of info about GTA VI. Nice.

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ehh i think Take 2 bought ruffian games, soo can the title of topic can be changed? correct me if i'm wrong.

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3 minutes ago, DeltaV20 said:

ehh i think Take 2 bought ruffian games, soo can the title of topic can be changed? correct me if i'm wrong.

Take-Two owns Rockstar, they're the ones to release news to the press...

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Nope, look at the email in the bio. Question is, who in their right minds would do this (account registered this month, maybe even today), knowing that the company now actually exists? Someone's getting Take-Two'd.

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12 hours ago, Orthur The Boah said:

Oh, yeah. 

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I think they'd make the R more cartoony but that's just me.

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2 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

Question is, who in their right minds would do this (account registered this month, maybe even today), knowing that the company now actually exists? Someone's getting Take-Two'd.

 

These bitches

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9 minutes ago, Zello said:

I think they'd make the R more cartoony but that's just me.

Assuming they aren't going to mess with the brand logo at all, it could be any variation of the current Ruffian colours, or something else, e.g.:

 

 

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Part of me wants to see this

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Yeah, expected that. Those are the original Ruffian colours, black and white.

 

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Based on the positions they seem to be an engine support studio, but they also will have mission programmers and such. I doubt they can expand much more, it's not a huge office I don't think and atm they're like 30 employees.

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Hope they cooking up some nice refreshing stuff.

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Huh, the Logo is pretty bland, especially as it's just the exact same as the whole "Rockstar Studios" one, what happens when both are needed?

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This would have been interesting a decade ago but Rockstar's studios no longer develop games independently so it's meaningless. Just another team of grunts to port games and sh*t out Online updates. Meh.

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