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    List of the Rockstar Studios – Past and Present

    Kyle Evans 🇵🇸By Kyle Evans 🇵🇸February 5, 2019
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    Rockstar Games, a game publishing company known globally for its huge hits such as the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Series, along with its more controversial side for games such as Manhunt. Rockstar Games, which is owned by Take-Two, have many subsidiaries that work on a variety of different games and software. So let’s take a look at all the studios that have been and are currently under Rockstar Games.

    Rockstar Games

    Active since: December 1998

    Location: Broadway, New York City

    Description: Publishing studio for all the Rockstar subsidiaries. Publishing games such as Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Red Dead and more. Along with publishing films such as Football Factory.

    Rockstar North

    Active since: 1984

    Joined Rockstar: 2002 – Present

    Formerly known as: Acme Software & DMA Designs

    Location:  Edinburgh, Scotland

    Known for: The Grand Theft Auto series, Manhunt series, and helping other studios on projects.

    Rockstar San Diego

    Active since: 1984

    Joined Rockstar: 2002 – Present

    Formerly known as: Angel Studios, Inc

    Location:  Carlsbad, California

    Known for: The Red Dead, Midnight Club & Smugglers Run series, along with being the lead studio for the RAGE game engine.

    Rockstar Toronto

    Active since: 1988

    Joined Rockstar: 1999- Present

    Formerly known as: Imagexcel, GameTek Canada, Rockstar Canada Inc, Rockstar Toronto Inc, Rockstar Games Toronto Inc.

    Location:  Lake Ontario, Toronto, Canada

    Known for: The Warriors, and supporting other studios on projects such as Porting GTA IV & the Story DLC’s on Windows

    Rockstar Lincoln

    Active since: 1992

    Joined Rockstar: 2002 – Present

    Formerly known as: Spidersoft Limited & Tarantula Studios

    Location:  Lincoln, England

    Known for: Dedicated Quality assurance and Localization studio.

    Rockstar Leeds

    Active since: 1997

    Joined Rockstar: 2004 – Present

    Formerly known as: Möbius Entertainment Limited

    Location:  Leeds, England

    Known for: Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories and Chinatown Wars

    Rockstar New England

    Active since: 1999

    Joined Rockstar: 2008 – Present

    Formerly known as: Mad Doc Software

    Location:  Ballardvale, Massachusetts

    Known for: Bully: Scholarship Edition

    Rockstar International

    Active since: 2003

    Joined Rockstar: 2003 – Present

    Formerly known as: N/A

    Location:  London, England

    Known for: The international Publishing HQ for Rockstar Games

    Rockstar London

    Active since: 2005

    Joined Rockstar: 2005- Present

    Formerly known as: N/A

    Location:  London, England

    Known for: Max Payne 3 & Manhunt 2

    Rockstar India

    Active since: 2016

    Joined Rockstar: 2016 – Present

    Formerly known as: N/A

    Location:  Bangalore, India

    Known for: No projects announced as of yet

    Rockstar Dundee

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    Active since: 2008

    Joined Rockstar: 2020- Present

    Formerly known as: Ruffian Games

    Location:  Dundee, Scotland

    Known for: Crackdown 2. Halo TMCC, No projects announced as of yet under R*

    Rockstar Vienna

    Active since: 1993 – 2006

    Joined Rockstar: 2003 – 2006

    Formerly known as: Neo Software Produktions GmbH

    Location:  Vienna, Austria

    Known for: Supporting studios with game development, started developing Manhunt 2 before closing down

    Rockstar Vancouver

    Active since: 1998

    Joined Rockstar: 2002 – 2012 (Merged into R* Toronto, all staff given the option to join any other R* Studio)

    Formerly known as: Barking Dog Studios Ltd.

    Location:  Vancouver, British Columbia

    Known for: Bully & Max Payne 3

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