A messy Rockstar Games security breach has produced one of the strangest market reactions you’ll see all year: leaked GTA Online and Red Dead Online financials hit the internet, and Take-Two Interactive’s stock promptly climbed instead of cratering. The numbers—showing GTA Online still pulling in…
Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by a third-party data breach—and now the hacking group ShinyHunters has reportedly dumped the stolen files publicly after Rockstar refused to meet its demands. Early scrutiny suggests the leak is heavy on financial and metrics data tied to GTA Online and Red…
Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by another hack-related incident, but the studio is adamant this one won’t derail Grand Theft Auto VI or affect players. After a hacking group issued a ransom-style demand tied to alleged access of Rockstar’s data systems, Rockstar responded with a firm…
Rockstar Games has confirmed it suffered a third-party data breach after the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed it accessed Rockstar-related data and issued a blunt ultimatum: pay a ransom or the files get leaked. The studio says only a “limited amount of non-material company information” was…
The wait for Grand Theft Auto 6 has been so long that even former Rockstar staff are looking at the calendar and going, “Yeah… something big had to happen.” In a recent Kiwi Talkz interview, ex-Rockstar audio designer/engineer Rob Carr said he’d be “incredibly surprised” if GTA 6 doesn’t pull…
Take-Two Interactive—the publisher behind Rockstar Games and 2K, and the parent company that also owns Zynga—has quietly but significantly reduced the team it built to research and deploy artificial intelligence across its business. The most notable cut: Luke Dicken, Take-Two’s Head of Artificial…
