First responders, together with six fireplace engines, descended upon Rockstar Video games’ Edinburgh workplace, Rockstar North, early on Monday following stories of structural harm to the workplaces of the Grand Theft Auto 6 maker. The results of an obvious explosion of some form, the incident fortunately left nobody injured.
“We were alerted at 5:02 a.m. on Monday, 19 January to attend an incident on Holyrood Road, Edinburgh,” a spokesperson for emergency crews told The Herald. “Operations Control mobilized three fire appliances and specialist resources to the scene, where firefighters worked to secure structural damage at a commercial building. There were no reported casualties and crews left the scene at 9:21 a.m.”
In response to Rockstar, the explosion was the results of a boiler malfunction and the studio stays absolutely operational because it prepares for the launch of GTA 6 in November.
“Early Monday morning, there was a malfunction in one of the heating boilers at Rockstar North,” a spokesperson for Rockstar Video games instructed Kotaku in an e mail. “Many thanks to those that reached out with concern, and also to the police and fire crews who were on scene quickly to assess the situation–please know that everyone is well and our studio remains open and operational.”
The workplace has just lately been on the middle of an ongoing labor dispute with 31 fired builders who had been trying to unionize. The employees declare they had been focused for making an attempt to prepare whereas Rockstar maintains they had been fired for violations of confidentiality guidelines, together with leaking development and gameplay details in a union Discord channel with exterior observers.
A decide reviewing the case just lately denied the fired GTA 6 devs immediate relief within the type of again pay, however a full ruling on the general deserves of the criticism continues to be pending.
