Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this greeting and secured "structural damage" pursuing a reported boiler explosion.

Seven vehicles were mobilized to be the main Rockstar North gathering successful Edinburgh, Scotland astatine 5.02am section clip (just aft midnight Eastern), pursuing an incidental that section quality outlet Edinburgh Live described arsenic an "explosion successful a boiler room."

Crews remained on-site for implicit 4 hours but person present near the scene, Scottish paper The Herald has reported.

"We were alerted astatine 5.02am connected Monday, 19 January to be an incidental connected Holyrood Road, Edinburgh," a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said. "Operations Control mobilised 3 occurrence appliances and specializer resources to the scene, wherever firefighters worked to unafraid structural harm astatine a commercialized building.

"There were nary reported casualties and crews near the country astatine 9.21am."

Rockstar Games' Edinburgh bureau has agelong served arsenic the bosom of the company, with improvement of each large Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption crippled taking spot wrong its walls. Most recently, the gathering has been the tract of protests implicit Rockstar's abrupt firing of workers amid an progressively bitter quality that the layoffs were owed to the employees' national rank — a assertion that Rockstar itself has vehemently denied.

It's believed that bureau remains unopen today, though it's excessively aboriginal to accidental however this setback mightiness interaction the merchandise of the twice-delayed GTA 6. Rockstar's hugely-anticipated crippled is presently acceptable to motorboat connected November 19.

IGN has contacted Rockstar Games for more.

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