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Leslie Benzies. Leslie Peter Benzies (born 17 January 1971) is a Scottish video game producer and the former president of Rockstar North, a subsidiary of Rockstar Games. He was the lead developer on the Grand Theft Auto series, taking responsibility from Grand Theft Auto III to Grand Theft Auto V (including Grand Theft Auto Online ).
Aug 23, 2022 · Gamescom 2022 opened with the reveal of Everywhere, a new game from Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies."We want the community to build this. We want it to be their world. We want them to ...
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Mar 23, 2023 · Former Rockstar bigshot Leslie Benzies is launching a AAA action game inside his new MMO. By Oli Welsh @oliwelsh Mar 23, 2023, 10:00am EDT. Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news ...
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Leslie Benzies is a Scottish video game producer, and the former president of Rockstar North, a subsidiary of Rockstar Games, until 2016.
Benzies was first credited as producer on Grand Theft Auto III, and subsequently on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Grand Theft Auto V.
He was additionally credited as development director on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, president of Rockstar North on Grand Theft Auto Advance, game designer on Grand Theft Auto V and designer & director on Grand Theft Auto Online.
At Rockstar North, he was also credited as the producer on Manhunt and Manhunt 2 and as executive producer on Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3.
Benzies served as president of the company from the start of the development of Grand Theft Auto III until he resigned on January 12, 2016 following a 17-month sabbatical, with Aaron Garbut and Rob Nelson taking over the lead of Rockstar North.
On April 13, 2016, Benzies launched legal action against Rockstar Games, claiming $150m in unpaid royalties. On February 7, 2019, Benzies' litigation with Take-Two had officially come to an end. All parties involved in the case successfully executed a confidential settlement, with each agreeing to bear its own costs and expenses, including, without limitation, attorney's fees.
Benzies is currently president of Build a Rocket Boy Games and is currently working on a new game titled Everywhere.
Producer
•Grand Theft Auto III (2001) •Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) •Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) •Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005) •Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006) •Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) •Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned (2009) •Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009) •Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009) •Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
Development Director
•Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
President of Rockstar North
•Grand Theft Auto Advance (2004)
1."Rockstar North Boss Leslie Benzies Is Out After Nearly Two Decades" - Kotaku. January 12, 2016.
2.Grand Theft Auto developer Leslie Benzies sues Rockstar
Aug 23, 2022 · by Marcus Stewart on Aug 23, 2022 at 01:00 PM. Gamescom Opening Night Live kicked off with the reveal of Everywhere, the ambitious debut title by former Leslie Benzies' (formerly of Rockstar) Build a Rocket Boy Games. Everywhere’s reveal trailer showed a montage of disparate gameplay and art styles, from more cartoony racing to sci-fi to ...
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Aug 25, 2022 · According to Benzies, the goal of GTA 3 was to create an open-world game that would take the freedom, interactivity, and nonlinearity of the first two games, and bring them to a 3D world ...
