Rockstar Games has addressed the recent wave of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer firings, sharpening its official explanation for why the staff were dismissed with more detailed allegations—all of which the union involved in the case denies. The central issue of the ongoing dispute is whether the GTA 6 developers were fired for trying to unionize or because they leaked company secrets.
The late October 2025 purge resulted in 34 terminations, with 31 employees based in the UK and the remaining three at the gamemaker's Toronto studio. At the time, Rockstar said that the GTA 6 developers were fired for leaking company secrets via a private Discord server operated by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB). The IWGB rejected that claim as baseless, retorting that the firings were a clear case of union-busting. A subsequent report by People Make Games interviewing an IWGB rep revealed select messages that may have gotten some GTA 6 developers fired, including an example of a staffer posting an auto-generated transcription of an email on Slack policy changes in possible violation of company policies.
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