Rockstar Games, Inc.

The Rockstar Games label, founded in 1998 by Sam Houser, Terry Donovan, Dan Houser, Jamie King and Gary Foreman, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software and is an umbrella/label for all other studios with the Rockstar name.

Divisions

Names in italics used to be subsidiaries, but no longer are as they were closed or sold off.

• Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design - Dundee, Scotland, UK - acquired in 1999)
• Rockstar Toronto (formerly Rockstar Canada / Take-Two Interactive Canada / GameTek Canada / Imagexcel - Toronto, Canada - reassigned from Take-Two Interactive in 1999)
• Rockstar Vancouver (formerly Barking Dog Studios - Vancouver, Canada - acquired in 2002, merged with Rockstar Toronto in 2012)
• Rockstar Lincoln (formerly Tarantula Studios / Spidersoft - Lincoln, England, UK - reassigned from Take-Two Interactive in 2002)
• Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios - San Diego, USA - acquired in 2002)
• Rockstar Vienna (formerly neo Software Produktions - Vienna, Austria - reassigned from Gathering in 2003, closed in 2006)
• Rockstar New England (formerly Mad Doc Software - Andover, Massachussets, USA - acquired in 2008)
• Rockstar Leeds (formerly Möbius Entertainment - Leeds, UK - acquired in 2004)
• Rockstar London (London, UK - founded in 2005)
• Rockstar India (Bangalore, India - founded in 2016)
• Rockstar New York (New York, USA - founded cca 2020)
• Rockstar Dundee (formerly Ruffian Games - Dundee, Scotland, UK - acquired in 2020)
• Cfx.re (acquired in 2023)
• Rockstar LA (formerly Standard Deviation - Los Angeles, USA - acquired in 2023)
• Rockstar Australia (formerly Video Games Deluxe - Sydney, Australia - acquired in 2025)