Rockstar ‘Upset’ by Ex-Developer’s Blog Post That Discusses Old Games

Recently, a former Rock star The employee started a blog that chronicles his time at the company and the games he helped create. However, since then the Edinburgh branch of the promoter has requested that these posts be removed.

What was the problem ?

In a recent post Titled “Sorry You Missed It,” former CTO Obbe Vermeij said he was contacted specifically by Rockstar North, saying some team members were “upset” about the blog. As a result, he has since deleted the old posts, but hopes it will be possible to continue at a later date.

Vermeij was talking about his time at Rockstar North, where he started with the company in 1995 when it was called DMA Design. The posts revealed some interesting information about some of the classic games he helped create.

For example, he said that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was almost an expansion pack for GTA 3 and that the team wanted to create a zombie game using the Vice City source code. There has also been talk about the elusive Agent, a supposed stealth action game developed by Rockstar.

Although Vermeij was under the impression that the studio wouldn’t mind him “talking about 20-year-old games,” he made it clear that he was not threatened with legal action.

A recent tweet from him stated that he deleted the blog because it “seemed to annoy” his former colleagues at Rockstar North. He insists he was not given a cease and desist order or silenced.

At the time of writing, Rock star he himself has not commented publicly on the blog. Vermeij left the company in 2009, a few months after the release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.