Today we unfortunately have to say goodbye to Gordon Hallfounder of Rockstar leeds for the development of Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, which passed away at the age of 51. This is communicated by the gamesindustry.biz portal in a sad and short article dedicated to the developer, whose videogame career began with the foundation of Mobius Entertainment in 1997, for which he developed several titles dedicated to Nintendo's Game Boy and Game Boy Advance handheld consoles. After launching the GBA version of Max Payne, Mobius was bought by Rockstar Games, becoming the division Rockstar leeds, of which - in fact - Hall was the leader.
With Gordon Hall, Rockstar Leeds has collaborated over the years in the development of other major Rockstar Games titles such as Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories e GTA: Chinatown Wars. In 2009 Hall was hired in 2009 by the San Diego division (also of Rockstar). Before taking on his last role, that of chief creative officer for Activision Blizzard Mobile, Hall had abandoned the world of development for a few years, devoting himself to studies related to research on player psychology and on the study of strategies for applying microtransactions within videogames.
Martyn Brown, business development at Five Aces Publishing and co-founder of Team17, said:
Gordon was simply brilliant, incredibly motivating and always positive. His pursuit of excellence has been astounding. He has formed a great bond of trust with all who have chosen to work hard alongside him. As a close friend, he was an inspiration to me. I am very sad. We will miss him very much.
In an attempt to snatch a little smile from you, after such sad news, we report that for some hours new rumors have been chasing each other on what could be the GTA V next-gen release date, then in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S versions.
