Kotaku: Sam Houser

L.A. Noire DLC Offers Players New Cases to Play. New Ways to Pay.

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:56:00 EDT

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A handful of downloadable content is coming to detective game L.A. Noire. The DLC includes standalone cases, in-game items and challenges. More »

How I Scored An Interview with the J.D. Salinger of Games, Sam "Grand Theft Auto" Houser

Harold Goldberg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EDT

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Those damn cable networks that cover games only in terms of violence. Those big ‘consumer' magazines that never review games. They think we don't think. They think we don't read. They think we need to get a life. Well, we have one, and, yeah, it's rich beyond videogames. But it's also made richer because of videogames. That's why, after more than 15 years of covering games, I had to write All Your Base Are Belong to Us, How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture. More »

What Ever Happened To The Christmas Video Game?

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EST

Christmas. It's not only a holiday, but a mood, a memory. Movies ranging from It's A Wonderful Life to Home Alone capture that festive feeling. Video games, do not. More »

Rockstar Boss's Sweet Ride

Brian Crecente — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:00:00 EDT

I asked for it in yesterday's post about the Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic and Rockstar co-founder and GTA co-creator Sam Houser delivered... along with a challenge. More »

Ride Again with Rockstar

Brian Crecente — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:34:39 EDT

Rockstar Games is hosting this year's Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic on June 20. Of course that means that there will be an eclectic sampling of pop stars tooling around Marcus Garvey Park come Father's Day. Among those riding the .75 mile track for the $15,000 prize will be Olympic Champion Walter Perez of Argentina, four-time World Champion Franco Marvulli, German track racing stars Leif Lampater and Christian Grasmann. The event will also include performances by hip-hop icons Biz Markie and Mister Cee. Hey Houser, we want pics of your fancy bike! More »

Housers Named to Time's '100 Most Influential' List

Owen Good — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Time's latest issue is its "Time 100" in which they name the most influential people in the world, for this year anyway. Rockstar rockstars Dan and Sam Houser are in the "artists and entertainers" category. More »

Take-Two Secures Rockstar Talent Through 2012

Mike Fahey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:20:00 EST

Take-Two moves to secure key talent within their Rockstar Games label, entering into new long-term employment agreements with key team members, including founding brothers Sam and Dan Houser. More »

Rockstar Doesn't Get Hardcore/Casual Division

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:00:00 EDT

Rockstar gets lots of things — like how to make and launch hugely successful games. But what's one thing Rockstar does not get? Like at all? Company co-founder Sam Houser explains: More »

Sam Houser Talks Rockstar Hate

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:40:00 EDT

Rockstar Games gets lots of hate. And that's a shame, because Rockstar makes good games, which make lots of money. So we guess that balances it, so whatever. Here's company co-founder/president Sam Houser on that: More »

"Don't Make Great Stuff In A Nice Sweater And Drinking A Martini"

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:00:00 EDT

BioShock dev Ken Levine isn't all about Ken Levine. He's also all about Grand Theft Auto IV dev Sam Houser. Good for him! Here's Levine on Houser, his new BFF: More »

Arise, Sirs Dan And Sam Houser?

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:00:00 EDT

As savvy a piss-take on modern America as the Grand Theft Auto series has become, it's always worth remembering that it's not an American series. It's a British one. Rockstar are a British company (as were DMA), their founders, British. And with the GTA series nestled securely atop the gaming world in terms of both critical acclaim and popularity, Develop are wondering...when can we expect the series to start getting some serious recognition? Sure, they may have their tongue resting gently inside their cheeks when pondering how long til we see "the inevitable coming of Sir Sam Houser, or Dan Houser OBE", but the point itself is still valid! France are down with bestowing major recognition upon noted game developers, you can't help but wonder when places like Britain (and the US) will start doing likewise. More »

Sam Houser: 360 "Needs To Sort Out" Storage

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:20:00 EDT

1UP recently interviewed Rockstar's Sam Houser. You should probably go read the whole thing, as it touches on some interesting stuff, but one thing's probably more interesting than the rest. It's where Houser heavily alludes to something we've been saying for a long time now: the 360 needs to sort out the issue of its non-compulsory HDD usage:

One of the problems with the 360, and it affects games like Grand Theft Auto if you think about how much content we put in the actual machine, is the fact that they don't have a significantly larger storage medium than the previous systems. It's a slightly bigger DVD disc.

And with a small disc, stuff's compressed, so it takes longer to load, so to cut down on-oh. You're not done. More »

Subscription Based GTA "Very Doable, Very Compelling"

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:40:19 EDT

Grand Theft Auto, the massively multiplayer version, seems like an inevitability. With downloadable content coming for the Xbox 360 version and a game so stuffed with data that it pushes DVD size limitations, an MMO take on the game with digitally delivered content sounds like the next logical step. Sam Houser, one of the founders of Rockstar Games, agrees, telling EGM/1UP that "a subscription-based Grand Theft Auto-type game...is very, very doable and is a very, very compelling proposition." More »