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Rockstar reportedly has addressed working culture as it works on GTA 6

Rockstar reportedly has addressed working culture as it works on GTA 6

Development giant Rockstar has apparently changed its working culture to be healthier.

That's according to Bloomberg, which reports that the company has tried to reinvent itself as a better place to work. One source told the outlet that it was "a boy's club transformed into a real company."

Work on the eagerly-awaited Grand Theft Auto 6 has apparently been slower than other projects – in part because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic – but largely due to the outcry back in 2018 over the demands Red Dead Redemption 2 placed on staff. Since, Rockstar has taken measures to improve how it operates.

This includes restructuring its design department and pledging to keep overtime down – it's also introduced 'flexitime', which allows staff to gain extra time off work for every hour they work above their contract.

It's also brought contractors in-house as full-time employees and kicked out managers who were abusive or hard to work with. In addition, Rockstar has reduced the scope of Grand Theft Auto 6; which was meant to be the biggest game in the series to date, including vast areas of both North and South America. This has apparently been reduced to a fictional Miami and parts of the surrounding area, with plans to add new content over time.


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.