GTA owner lays off 550+ employees after making $2.2 billion profit last year

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Say hello to Grand Theft Auto VI.

Clearly the owner of GTA is strapped for cash The industry wide spate of mass redundancies continues, with Rockstar Games owner Take-Two saying that they’ve cancelled several games. At this point, almost every Western video game publisher has announced massive layoffs of staff, from Microsoft and Sony to EA and Embracer Group, but for a moment it did seem as if Rockstar Games owner Take-Two Interactive would buck the trend. But unfortunately that’s not the case.

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