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Rockstar Games, Inc.
Type	Subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive
Founded	1998
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Key people	Terry Donovan (CEO); Sam Houser (President); Dan Houser; Gary Foreman
Industry	Video games
Products	Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Manhunt, Max Payne
Parent	Take-Two Interactive
Website	www.rockstargames.com

Rockstar Games (studio known as Rockstar Games NYC) is a video game developer and publisher owned by Take-Two Interactive. The brand is mostly known for the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and Midnight Club series. It comprises studios that have been acquired and renamed as well as others that have been created internally. While many of the studios Take-Two Interactive has acquired have been merged into the Rockstar brand, several other recent ones have retained their previous identities and have become part of the company's 2K Games division. The Rockstar Games label was founded in New York City, New York in 1998 by Sam Houser, Terry Donovan, Dan Houser, Jamie King and Gary Foreman.^[1]

The Headquarters of Rockstar Games is located in Broadway, New York City, part of the Take-Two Interactive offices. It is the head office of Rockstar's worldwide publishing enterprises. It is home to the marketing, public relations and product development departments.^[2]

[edit] Rockstar studios

Name	Years active (as Rockstar division)	Notes
Rockstar Japan	2005 - present	Japanese localization studio.
Rockstar Leeds	2004 - present	Previously known as Mobius Entertainment. Based in Lower Wortley, Leeds. They created Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories for the PlayStation Portable. They recently finished developing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and are currently developing the music game, Beaterator.
Rockstar Lincoln	1999 - present	Based in Lincoln, England. Quality assurance and localization studio. Previously known as Tarantula Studios.
Rockstar London	2005 - present	Formed in November 2005. Took over development of Manhunt 2 after Rockstar Vienna had been closed. They recently developed the portable adaptation of Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
Rockstar New England	2008 - present	Previously known as Mad Doc Software. Based in Andover, Massachusetts. Acquired on April 4, 2008.^[3]
Rockstar North	1999 - present	Based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Previously known as DMA Design (founded 1988). They are famous for the Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt franchises, as well as the original Lemmings games.
Rockstar San Diego	2003 - present	Previously known as Angel Studios. Developed Red Dead Revolver, the Smuggler's Run series, the first two Midtown Madness games and the Midnight Club series. They are currently responsible for the RAGE game engine.
Rockstar Toronto	1999 - present	Take Two's in-house development team, previously known as Rockstar Canada. Their most well-known work is their adaptation of the cult classic film The Warriors.
Rockstar Vancouver	2002 - present	Previously known as Barking Dog Studios. They created the PlayStation 2 title Bully and are currently developing the third game in the Max Payne series, Max Payne 3.
Rockstar Vienna	2003 - 2006	Previously known as neo Software; closed on May 11, 2006 ^[4]. Ported the Max Payne series to consoles. Created most of Manhunt 2 before being closed down.

[edit] External developers

Bungie developed the game Oni, which was published by Rockstar on the PS2. Before Bungie was bought by Microsoft, their breakthrough product, Halo, was planned for release on Mac and PC with Rockstar as publisher.
Capcom had early development in Rockstar San Diego's Red Dead Revolver and currently owns the Japanese distribution rights to the Grand Theft Auto series.
Dubtitled, in collaboration with Michael "Mic" Neumann on State of Emergency and Grand Theft Auto series.
Digital Eclipse Software collaborated with Rockstar North while developing Grand Theft Auto Advance.
Edge of Reality developed Monster Truck Madness 64.
Opus, in collaboration with ASCII Entertainment developed Surfing H3O.
Remedy Entertainment developed the Max Payne series.
Team Bondi is currently developing L.A. Noire for Rockstar.
VIS Entertainment developed State of Emergency which was published by Rockstar.
Z-Axis developed Thrasher presents Skate and Destroy.
Image Metrics has done most of the facial animation in most of Rockstar's games.

[edit] Games

Game	Release	Format
Grand Theft Auto³	1997	PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color¹
Earthworm Jim 3D	1999	Nintendo 64²
Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969³	1999	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961	1999	Microsoft Windows
Grand Theft Auto 2³	1999	PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows
Thrasher Presents Skate And Destroy	1999	PlayStation
Austin Powers: Oh Behave	2000	Game Boy Color
Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair!	2000	Game Boy Color
Wild Metal: Reclaim the Future	2000	Dreamcast⁴
Midnight Club: Street Racing	2000	PlayStation 2
Surfing H3O	2000	PlayStation 2
Smuggler's Run	2000	PlayStation 2
Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory	2001	PlayStation 2
Oni	2001	PlayStation 2⁵, Microsoft Windows
Grand Theft Auto III	2001	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
The Italian Job⁶	2002	PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
State of Emergency	2002	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Smuggler's Run Warzones	2002	Nintendo GameCube
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City	2002	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Midnight Club II	2003	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	2003	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Manhunt	2003	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Red Dead Revolver	2004	PlayStation 2, Xbox
Grand Theft Auto Advance	2004	Game Boy Advance
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	2004	PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition	2005	PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable
The Warriors	2005	PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories	2005	PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix	2006	PlayStation 2, Xbox
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis	2006	Xbox 360, Wii
Bully	2006	PlayStation 2
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories	2006	PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2
Manhunt 2	2007	PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, Wii, Microsoft Windows
Bully: Scholarship Edition	2008	Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows
Grand Theft Auto IV	2008	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
Midnight Club: Los Angeles	2008	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP
Midnight Club: L.A. Remix	2008	PlayStation Portable
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned	2009	Xbox 360
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars	2009	Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, iPhone OS
Beaterator	2009	PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Network, iPhone OS
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony	2009	Xbox 360
Red Dead Redemption⁸	2010	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Max Payne 3⁸	2010	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
L.A. Noire⁸	TBA	PlayStation 3
Agent⁸	TBA	PlayStation 3
Notes: The DOS/Windows and PlayStation versions were produced by DMA Design, prior to it becoming Rockstar North, and published by BMG Interactive in Europe and by ASC Games in North America in 1997. The PC version and PAL Nintendo 64 version was released by Interplay Entertainment whilst only the US Nintendo 64 version was released by Rockstar. The games were re-released by Rockstar Games in a three game CD compilation dubbed Grand Theft Auto: The Classics Collection on November 23, 2004. The Windows version was published by Gremlin Interactive in 1999. The Windows and Mac versions were published by Gathering of Developers in 2001. It was based on The Italian Job (1969 film), which is not to be confused with the 2003 video game which was released by Eidos Interactive which is based on the The Italian Job (2003 film). The Windows version was published by Gathering of Developers in 2001; The Mac version was published by MacSoft in 2002. These games are in development.

[edit] Films

Aside from producing popular games, Rockstar also has ventured into producing movies.

Films¹	Release	Genre
The Football Factory	2004	Drama
Sunday Driver	2005	Documentary
Notes Rockstar Games is credited as executive producers.

[edit] Technology

Main article: Rockstar Advanced Game Engine

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) is a game engine developed by Rockstar Games to facilitate game development on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, and Wii systems.

Main article: Rockstar Games Social Club

Rockstar Social Club is a community website created by Rockstar for their latest games.

[edit] References

^ "Rockstar Games". 2009-03-31. http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Rockstar_Games. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
^ RockstarWatch (2007-08-11). "RockstarWatch: Rockstar Games". RockstarWatch.net. http://www.rockstarwatch.net/corporate/rockstar/. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
^ Rockstar Acquires Mad Doc Software at RockstarWatch. URL accessed on April 4, 2008
^ Jurie Horneman (2006-05-11). "Rockstar Vienna closes its doors". Intelligent Artifice. http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2006/05/rockstar_vienna.html. Retrieved 2007-04-21.

[edit] External links

Studios

[0] "Rockstar Games". 2009-03-31. http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Rockstar_Games. Retrieved 2009-03-31.

[1] RockstarWatch (2007-08-11). "RockstarWatch: Rockstar Games". RockstarWatch.net. http://www.rockstarwatch.net/corporate/rockstar/. Retrieved 2007-08-11.

[RockstarGamesMerge-2] Rockstar Acquires Mad Doc Software at RockstarWatch. URL accessed on April 4, 2008

[3] Jurie Horneman (2006-05-11). "Rockstar Vienna closes its doors". Intelligent Artifice. http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2006/05/rockstar_vienna.html. Retrieved 2007-04-21.

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