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Rockstar Games UK Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited and Rockstar North Limited) is a British video game development company and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The company was founded as DMA Design in Dundee in 1987 by David Jones, soon hiring former classmates Mike Dailly, Russell Kay, and Steve Hammond.
- David Jones
- Andrew Semple (studio director)
Rockstar North Limited (former DMA Design Limited) is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded as Acme Software in Dundee in 1984. The founders were classmates David Jones, Russell Kay, Steve Hammond, and Mike Dailly. It was renamed DMA Design in 1987.
- 1984; 39 years ago in Dundee, Scotland
- Subsidiary
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Mar 27, 2002 · Rockstar North, formerly known as DMA Design, was founded in 1988 by David Jones, Russell Kay, and Mike Dailly in Dundee, Scotland. The name DMA was taken from the Amiga programming manuals, where it stood for "Direct Memory Access". DMA Design was...
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Rockstar North is the trade name of Rockstar Games UK Limited (formerly known as DMA Design Limited and Rockstar North Limited), a British video game development company from Edinburgh, Scotland, originally founded in Dundee in 1987 by David Scott Jones, soon hiring former classmates Mike Dailly, Russell Kay, and Steve Hammond. The company is currently a studio for its American parent company Rockstar Games which is owned by Take Two Interactive. The president of the company was Leslie Benzies until 2016.
It is the primary developer of both the Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt series, and responsible for originating the monumentally successful puzzle-strategy Lemmings franchise for the Amiga in 1991.
In 1997, DMA released Grand Theft Auto, which was a huge success; the game sparked a successful series. The company was soon acquired by Gremlin Interactive. Following the release of Grand Theft Auto 2, Gremlin was acquired by Infogrames. After the Infogrames acquisition, the DMA Design assets were sold to Take-Two Interactive. In 2001, after the release of Grand Theft Auto III, DMA Design was ultimately renamed Rockstar North and became part of the Rockstar Games label.
After the shift, Rockstar North worked on new titles, including Grand Theft Auto's shared-universe psychological horror game Manhunt, and provided additional support to other video game titles published by their parent company, including Rockstar San Diego's Red Dead Redemption, and Max Payne 3 as a collaborative effort between multiple Rockstar Studios.
More recently, Rockstar North is the developer of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. Rockstar North is Rockstar Games' most experienced production company, with a total of 33 games produced under the DMA Design or Rockstar North banner.
As DMA Design
Grand Theft Auto III (credited as DMA only on PlayStation 2 release)
As Rockstar North
•••••Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (with Rockstar Leeds) •Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (with Rockstar Leeds) •Manhunt 2 (with Rockstar London, Rockstar Toronto, Rockstar Vienna and Rockstar Leeds) •••Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (with Rockstar Leeds) •Red Dead Redemption (assistance only; developed by Rockstar San Diego) •Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (assistance only; developed by Rockstar San Diego) •Max Payne 3 (collaborative effort with multiple Rockstar Studios; franchise developed by Remedy Entertainment) •••Grand Theft Auto VI (collaborative effort with multiple Rockstar Studios)
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•The Rockstar North logo appears several times in game; for example, in GTA San Andreas it can be seen on the parachute pickup, on the casing of Let's Get Ready to Bumble arcade machines and on a Hotring Racer.
•One of the missions given to players in Mafiya Work or Team Mafiya Work multiplayer games in Grand Theft Auto IV references Rockstar North's efforts researching New York City for the development of the game's rendition of Liberty City. The players' client and boss, Kenny Petrovic, calls to inform that a team of researchers from a "Scottish" video game company are in Liberty City to research the city for the purpose of developing a video game. The players are tasked to pick up the developers so that they have a better understanding of criminal activities; in reality, they simply serve as muscle protecting the player, shooting at any enemies.
1.On 19 November 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office declared the "Agent" trademark as abandoned.
Best known for developing Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings, Rockstar North was known as DMA Design Limited before it was purchased by Rockstar in 2002.
Part 1. Menace Loading Screen Mockup. DMA Design officially started sometime in 1987 with the beginnings of what was to become their first game; Menace, and ended on a high in 2000 with Grand Theft Auto 2. And what a ride it turned out to be! On these pages we hope to detail as much as we are able; the history, the highs, the lows and give an ...
May 18, 2015 · Mike Dailly, programmer, artist. I was DMA Design’s first employee. Dave Jones, its founder, took me on in 1989 and we started bringing all these young people into our Dundee HQ. By 1994, I was ...
