{"id":120977,"date":"2012-07-11T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.borndigital.com\/?p=120977"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:24:34","slug":"rockstar-games-packs-up-bags-in-vancouver-and-moves-to-toronto","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/rockstar-games-packs-up-bags-in-vancouver-and-moves-to-toronto","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Games Packs Up Bags in Vancouver and Moves to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Successful gaming studio Rockstar Games is packing up its bags and heading east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company is shuttering its 35-employee studio on Beatty Street to consolidate operations in Toronto, where it says financial incentives from the provincial government convinced it to build a new studio there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ontario offers a tax credit to video developers covering uo to 37.5% of labour costs, wile BC&#8217;s equivalent program covers just 17.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rockstar isn&#8217;t necessarily firing anyone, though: all 35 employees have been offered to move to another Rockstar studio. That&#8217;s unlike Radical Entertainment, where nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/activision-shutters-vancouvers-radical-entertainment-2012-06-28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100 workers suddenly lost their jobs<\/a>&nbsp;last month. No studio shifting there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Vancouver has inferior incentives than Ontario, on a global scale they are solid, and the city continues to be one of Canada&#8217;s hottest hubs for game developers and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/vancouver-has-established-itself-as-a-digital-media-mecca-2012-06-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital media startups<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful gaming studio Rockstar Games is packing up its bags and heading east. The company is shuttering its 35-employee studio on Beatty Street to consolidate operations in Toronto, where it says financial incentives from the provincial government convinced it to build a new studio there. Ontario offers a tax credit to video developers covering uo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76318,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-120977","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/120977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/120977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120977"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=120977"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=120977"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=120977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}