‘Grand Theft Auto’ Publisher Take-Two Interactive to Lay Off 5% of Workforce, Scrap Several Games

By Dewja gaming ♡♤◇♧ GTA 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive has announced it's laying off 5% of its workforce and canceling several projects. GTA 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive has announced it's laying off 5% of its workforce and canceling several projects. Per Bloomberg, Take-Two revealed in an end-of-business SEC filing a plan to save itself more than $165 million annually due to "reductions in its existing expense base and lowered projected expense growth for the coming years." In the process, it'll incur up to $200 million in charges, the majority of which - up to $140 million - is related to the cancelation of projects, while another $25 million to $35 million is related to employee severance and related costs. Take-Two is also reducing its office space as part of the plan.

Cecil Gao -- Superpixel Goat Simulator has been wild on Twitter for years. They are used to joking around with IRL celebrities, news and video games by attaching that crazy goat to them. However, the studio met their Waterloo in the field of goat memes recently when they picked a fight with Rockstar Games' parent company Take-Two. The whole thing started when Goat Simulator used some of Rockstar's GTA VI footage, which had been leaked by hackers in September, in a prank ad video.

The Grand Theft Auto series has become a cultural phenomenon in the past decades, and later this month, Rockstar Games is going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the legendary open-world adventure game Grand Theft Auto III. Today, Rockstar Games announced that they will launch Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, which includes Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City