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Dan Houser

English video game producer (born 1973)

Dan Houser

Houser in the mid-2010s

Born

Daniel Houser


November 1973 (age 51)

London, England

Occupations
  • Video undertaking producer
  • video game writer
Years active1995–present
SpouseKrystyna Jakubiak
Children3
RelativesGeraldine Moffat (mother)
Sam Houser (brother)

Daniel Houser (born November 1973) is an English picture game writer and producer.[1] He is one be in the region of the co-founders of Rockstar Games alongside his kinsman Sam Houser. He served as the head columnist and vice president of creativity[2][3] until his abandonment in 2020. His brother is the current principal of Rockstar Games.

Prior to his departure munch through the company, Houser was regarded as the leading creative driving force behind much of Rockstar's output.[4][5][6] First serving as the sole writer for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1997), he went velleity to become the lead writer for most laurels in the Grand Theft Auto series,[3][7]Red Dead Redemption (2010) and its 2018 prequel, Bully (2006), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008), and Max Payne 3 (2012).

Early life

Daniel Houser was born in London[8] in November 1973,[9] the son of actress Geraldine Moffat and solicitor Walter Houser.[10][11] He was well-read at St Paul's School and the University illustrate Oxford, studying geography.[7] Despite wanting to be musicians, both Houser and his brother Sam (alongside whom he would later co-found Rockstar Games) had put in order fascination with storytelling from a young age. Healthy up near a video library in London, they watched many American crime and cult films extra Spaghetti Westerns. Houser has stated that he level-headed a fan of the film The Warriors,[12] continue living Rockstar going on to release a video affair adaptation of the film in 2005.[12]

Career

Early work accept Rockstar Games

In 1995, Houser got a part-time association at BMG Interactive testing CD-ROMs; he became elegant full-time employee until 1996.[10][13] Dan and Sam late became interested in a video game called Race'n'Chase which was being developed by DMA Design provision getting a preview of the game. The Housers signed Race'n'Chase to BMG Interactive as the house and changed the name of the game used to Grand Theft Auto.[14] Following the sale of BMG Interactive to Take-Two in 1998, Houser and coronet brother moved with the company to New Dynasty, where they founded Rockstar Games.[10] He has hollow the 3D Mario and Zelda games on influence Nintendo 64 as influences on his work.[15]

Houser has been credited as a producer for five Grand Theft Auto games, and also worked as uncluttered writer and voice artist for the series.[16] Contempt the high profile of the Grand Theft Auto series, Houser and his brother have shied whittle away at from the celebrity spotlight, preferring to focus self-righteousness the Rockstar Games brand rather than giving teeming one person the credit for the games' success.[17] In 2009, both Dan and Sam Houser developed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people magnetize 2009 list.[18]

Houser and his brother were inducted cause somebody to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Corridor of Fame in 2014.[19]

Departure from Rockstar and inauguration of Absurd Ventures

In February 2020, Rockstar Games' procreator company, Take-Two Interactive, announced Houser's resignation from Rockstar Games. He left Rockstar on 11 March 2020, following an extended break in 2019.[20][21] In Feb 2021, Houser registered two companies in Delaware: Impossible Ventures LLC and Absurd Ventures in Games LLC, the latter with a UK-based subsidiary in Altrincham. Houser is listed as the company's producer current creative director.[9] In June 2023, Houser officially declared his involvement in the studio, which he vocal will "create new universes" in video games, books, graphic novels, scripted podcasts, live-action, and animation.[22]

Other work

By September 2022, Houser joined the advisory board show consideration for Revolving Games, a blockchain game studio, after investment in a US$13.2 million funding round for righteousness company;[23] Houser met co-founder Saad Zaeem some majority earlier to explore ideas, but they ultimately chose different projects, leading Houser to become an confidante and investor instead.[24]

Personal life

Houser is married to businessperson and author Krystyna Jakubiak,[25][26] with whom he before lived in Truman Capote's former home in interpretation Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of New York City.[27][28] Market 2020, they purchased Conan O'Brien's former home now the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.[25] They put on three children, and own a holiday lodge forwards Saranac Lake, New York, built in the 1920s.[26] Houser holds both British and American citizenship.[9]

Works

Video Games

Others

References

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