21 Facts About Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games, Inc is an American video game publisher based in New York City.

Rockstar Games was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from BMG Interactive.

Rockstar Games predominantly publishes games in the action-adventure genre, while racing games saw success for the company.

One of such action-adventure game franchises is Grand Theft Auto, which Rockstar Games took over from BMG Interactive, which published the series' original 1997 entry.

In January 2007, Take-Two announced that Donovan, until then managing director for Rockstar Games, had left the company following a four-month leave of absence.

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Rockstar Games was succeeded by Gary Dale, who became chief operating officer.

At the 10th British Academy Games Awards in March 2014, Rockstar Games was honored with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award for "creating intricately layered interactive worlds that have kept the company at the forefront of the gaming industry for over a decade, both critically and commercially".

In May 2019, Rockstar Games announced that they were acquiring Dhruva Interactive from Starbreeze Studios for, with the sale being finalized later that month and the Dhruva team merged into Rockstar India.

In September 2019, Rockstar Games announced that they had released their own game launcher, a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications service.

In September 2022, Rockstar Games was the target of a data breach in which 90 videos from the development of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game were leaked.

Rockstar Games described the leak as a "network intrusion", and noted that it was "extremely disappointed" by the manner in which the game was first demonstrated, but that it did not anticipate long-term effects on development.

In October 2011, Dan Houser told Famitsu that Rockstar Games was intentionally avoiding developing games in the first-person shooter genre, because "it is in our DNA to avoid doing what other companies are doing.

Rockstar Games precluded video game installations at the venue to focus on the music and highlight the artists.

The first Rockstar Games Loft was held in western Chelsea, Manhattan, on October 30, 1999, with Andi Hanley, Bob Sinclar, and Dimitri from Paris as headlining DJs.

Rockstar Games produced the 2004 sports drama film The Football Factory.

Rockstar Games produced Sunday Driver, a documentary about the Majestics Lowrider Club in Compton, California, and The Introduction, an animated film that details the events leading up to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

In May 2021, Rockstar Games launched the record label CircoLoco Records in collaboration with Circoloco, an Ibiza-based dance party.

Certain Rockstar Games titles are credited under the collective name, Rockstar Games Studios, when the title is a collaboration between multiple studios.

Rockstar Games Advanced Game Engine is a game engine developed by the Rockstar Games San Diego-internal RAGE Technology Group, created to facilitate game development on all platforms since 2006.

Rockstar Games Social Club is an online gaming service created by Rockstar Games for authentication and multiplayer applications within their games.

Rockstar Games released its own games launcher for Windows on September 17, 2019.