Ex-GTA and Rockstar President Sets Up New Studio

A New World Order

If you were Leslie Benzies, one of the ex-top fromages at Rockstar, wouldn't you just move a retirement home off the coast of Bournemouth and let the cheques roll in?

Even if you have to pay the £150 million litigation fees after being counter-sued by Take-Two, Rockstar, and the brothers Houser, you might have enough change after doing eight GTA games. But Benzies is a man who wears dark glasses on indoor publicity shots - surely denoting a man of action who doesn't know when to quit or not ask for help when he can't see where he's going.

This man is not a quitter. That's why Rockstar changed the locks after he went on a sabbatical and didn't tell him until the security guard wouldn't let him in. That is some serious break-up shit right there. We wonder if Benzies at least got some mental succour by watching the intro to Bridget Jones again - crying and singing "All By Myself" after decanting too much gin.

So, Benzies is the kind of guy we want setting up another Scottish games studio to see what he'll make. That's exactly what he did last week when The Scotsman national reported he launched Royal Circus and trademarked "Time for a New World" and (natch) a #TFANW hashslag in the hope of trending.