GameIndustry.biz is reporting about mass firings at Rockstar Games. Tellingly, the (not entirely comprehensive) list of people who got fired includes almost every PR they employed:
Jamie King (VP of Development)
Jennifer Gross (Director of Marketing)
Laura Paterson (Director of Marketing)
Navid Khonsari (Director of Development)
Jeff Castaneda (Director of PR)
Chris Carro (Sr. Pr Manager)
Corey Wade (Sr. Product Mgr)
Futaba Hayashi (Sr. Web Designer)
Todd Zuniga (PR Manager)
Ryan Rayhill (PR)
So has the Hot Coffee fiasco finally gotten the better of Rockstar? Well, considering how much damage the inclusion of sex scenes in GTA: San Andreas cost both Rockstar and Take-Two, it's definitely no small wonder that they would sack their entire PR team. They should've done so ages ago. Rockstar tried coming back with a relatively innocent Table Tennis game, but I think people were half expecting blow jobs in that one as well, so the game didn't do as well as they had hoped.
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