Dan Houser Left Rockstar in 2020

The writer of every mainline Grand Theft Auto since 1997 left the company two years, to the day, before Rockstar confirmed the next one was in development. On February 4, 2020, Take-Two disclosed in an SEC filing that Dan Houser, Vice President of Creative at Rockstar Games, would leave the company on March 11 that year, after an extended break beginning in spring 2019. Houser had written or co-written every mainline Grand Theft Auto since 1997. He shaped the voice of the series — the satire, th