Living the Rockstar life

Rockstar Games has seen it all in this industry. Its flagship franchise Grand Theft Auto has reached a point where few, if any other, games have been. Streaking with ingenious game design and a smash-mouth attitude, the games created by brothers Sam and Dan Houser along with their buddy Terry Donovan have combined to sell 50 million copies worldwide and counting.

Revenues to the tune of billions have come in and will keep on flowing with the release of Grand Theft Auto IV this fall, yet, like a real rockstar, you only see the dreamy life on the surface. It’s what’s happening inside that’s more interesting.

No, the founding trio are not into drugs or devil worship, but their gig seems to have hit a snag, or two, or three, maybe more the past few years. With publisher Take-Two Interactive embroiled in scores of legal and corporate battles from within and without, it’s no surprise that the stars, are themselves getting rocked.

Wired.com interviewed the founders and a lot was revealed on what kind of trouble the proponents of virtual crimes are in. Lawsuits for explicit content, anomalous accounting and improper corporate practices have further raised the notoriety on the already infamous firm.

Things came to a head as rumors spread across blogs a couple of weeks back that Microsoft may buy Take Two. The news was later proven premature and was negated entirely. Observers say that the company and the franchise is on the fast lane to self-destruction, but company bigwigs are saying otherwise.

Is this the beginning of the end for the lads at Rockstar? Or is this an exercise of the modern axiom “bad news is good news?” We’ll see, won’t we? You can find out more by following the read URL.

Via Wired

Rockstar Games has seen it all in this industry. Its flagship franchise Grand Theft Auto has reached a point where few, if any other, games have been. Streaking with ingenious game design and a smash-mouth attitude, the games created by brothers Sam and Dan Houser along with their buddy Terry Donovan have combined to sell 50 million copies worldwide and counting.

Revenues to the tune of billions have come in and will keep on flowing with the release of Grand Theft Auto IV this fall, yet, like a real rockstar, you only see the dreamy life on the surface. It’s what’s happening inside that’s more interesting.

No, the founding trio are not into drugs or devil worship, but their gig seems to have hit a snag, or two, or three, maybe more the past few years. With publisher Take-Two Interactive embroiled in scores of legal and corporate battles from within and without, it’s no surprise that the stars, are themselves getting rocked.

Wired.com interviewed the founders and a lot was revealed on what kind of trouble the proponents of virtual crimes are in. Lawsuits for explicit content, anomalous accounting and improper corporate practices have further raised the notoriety on the already infamous firm.

Things came to a head as rumors spread across blogs a couple of weeks back that Microsoft may buy Take Two. The news was later proven premature and was negated entirely. Observers say that the company and the franchise is on the fast lane to self-destruction, but company bigwigs are saying otherwise.

Is this the beginning of the end for the lads at Rockstar? Or is this an exercise of the modern axiom “bad news is good news?” We’ll see, won’t we? You can find out more by following the read URL.

Via Wired