Rockstar North
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Formerly called
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Rockstar Studios Ltd. (2002) |
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Predecessor | DMA Design |
| Founded | 27 March 2002 |
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| Headquarters | Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Key people
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Andrew Semple (studio director) |
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Number of employees
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360+ (2013) |
| Parent | Rockstar Games |
| Website | rockstarnorth |
Rockstar North Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the primary developer of the Grand Theft Auto series and contributed to Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3. As DMA Design, it created the original Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings. It is a subsidiary of Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two Interactive.
DMA Design was founded in 1987 by David Jones in Dundee, Scotland, whose first employee was Mike Dailly followed by Russell Kay and Steve Hammond. The name DMA was taken from the Amiga programming manuals (where it stood for Direct Memory Access) and the initials were later 'retrofitted' so that they briefly stood for Direct Mind Access (DMA was also jokingly referred to as "Doesn't Mean Anything" by a company founder). In 1988 DMA signed with UK label Psygnosis and developed Menace and Blood Money – side-scrolling space shooters which gained attention from gamers and critics for both their high-quality presentation and difficulty. As with all the company's early games, Menace and Blood Money debuted on the Amiga, one of the leading platforms for video games in Europe between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. A Commodore 64 port was published immediately after, later followed by DOS and Atari ST versions.
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