Rockstar Games

American video game publisher

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2025 Planned release of New Max Payne 1&2 Project for Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, developed in collaboration with Remedy Entertainment (currently TBA).
March 2025 Rockstar announces acquisition of Video Games Deluxe, a Sydney-based studio of former L.A. Noire developers, and plans to rename it Rockstar Australia.
2023 Michael Unsworth, vice president of writing, departs Rockstar Games after sixteen years.
August 2023 Rockstar acquires Cfx.re (CitizenFX), the team behind modding platforms FiveM and RedM.
2022 Grand Theft Auto V release for ninth-generation consoles introduced raytraced reflections, native 4K resolution on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and upscaled 4K on Xbox Series S.
2022 Rockstar North expanded to occupy additional office space in Holyrood Park House.
September 2022 RAGE added support for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR).
September 2022 Rockstar experiences a data breach where 90 development videos of Grand Theft Auto VI are leaked.
September 2021 Rockstar Games leased the entire Pacific View Corporate Center in Carlsbad from Drawbridge Realty.
July 2021 RAGE added support for Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).
July 2021 Rockstar North purchased Barclay House and Holyrood Park House, becoming the sole tenant of these properties.
June 2021 CircoLoco Records released their first music series, Monday Dreamin, as a collection of extended plays.
May 2021 Rockstar Games launched CircoLoco Records, a record label collaboration with Circoloco, an Ibiza-based dance party, aiming to contribute to the dance music scene during the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 24 2020 Experienced a robbery where computer equipment and accessories were stolen from their Oakville offices, which was part of a string of local robberies continuing until January 23, 2021.
October 2020 Rockstar Games acquires Ruffian Games and rebrands it as Rockstar Dundee.
March 11 2020 Dan Houser leaves Rockstar Games after an extended break following the release of Red Dead Redemption 2.
2019 Rockstar Dundee developed the Wrecking Zone multiplayer mode for Crackdown 3, published by Microsoft Studios for Windows and Xbox One. The studio was credited under the name Elbow Rocket at the time.
October 2019 Ruffian Games began working with Rockstar Games.
September 2019 Re-hired former technical director Tom Shepherd as joint studio head alongside art director Joshua Bass after his 14-month stint at The Initiative.
September 2019 Rockstar Games launches its own digital game launcher and distribution service.
August 2019 The company was renamed to Take-Two Interactive Software Vancouver ULC.
August 2019 Ruffian Games released RADtv, a virtual reality game featuring hotseat multiplayer.
July 2019 Rob Martin left the company and later joined Tencent, establishing the Lightspeed LA subsidiary studio.
May 2019 HDR support was added to the RAGE engine.
May 2019 Rockstar Games acquires Dhruva Interactive from Starbreeze Studios and merges the team into Rockstar India.
February 8 2019 The lawsuit between Benzies and Rockstar Games was dismissed following a confidential settlement.
2018 Participated as one of eight studios in the development of Red Dead Redemption 2, with allegations of labor issues including mandatory overtime and 80-hour work weeks.
2018 The Agent trademark was abandoned, and its listing was removed from Rockstar Games's website.
October 2018 Royal Circus Games was renamed to Build a Rocket Boy after Take-Two accused Benzies of poaching Rockstar North employees.
October 2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 was released, developed by Rockstar Games studios working as one team, with Rockstar North having grown to 650 employees.
April 2018 The New York Supreme Court partially dismissed Benzies's lawsuit, finding that the profit-sharing agreement did not guarantee equal pay for the Rockstar Principals.
November 2016 Rockstar Leeds moved to 1 Victoria Place in the Holbeck area of Leeds.
August 2016 Rockstar Interactive India LLP was established in Bengaluru, marking Rockstar Games' entry into the Indian game development market.
April 12 2016 Leslie Benzies filed a lawsuit against Rockstar Games, Take-Two, Sam Houser, and Dan Houser, claiming withheld royalty payments and alleging unfair treatment during his sabbatical.
February 2016 Ruffian Games self-published Fragmental, a twin-stick shooter with local multiplayer, on Steam Early Access.
January 2016 Leslie Benzies's departure from Rockstar North was officially announced.
2015 RAGE engine supported 4K resolution, 60 fps, improved draw distances, texture filtering, shadow mapping, and tessellation in the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V.
2015 Ruffian Games and Paradox Interactive ended their partnership for Hollowpoint due to creative differences, putting the game's development on hold.
April 2015 Released the Windows port of Grand Theft Auto V, delayed from its 2014 initial schedule to integrate a built-in video editor.
September 2014 Leslie Benzies went on a sabbatical, with his responsibilities as studio head picked up by Garbut and Rob Nelson, both art directors.
August 2014 Bowden left Rockstar Leeds to become art director at GameDuell.
August 2014 Ruffian Games announced Hollowpoint, a cooperative action game published by Paradox Interactive with a planned PlayStation 4 temporary console exclusivity.
August 2014 Rockstar Games renewed the studio's lease on office space in the Faraday Corporate Center in Carlsbad for eight years.
July 2014 Rockstar Games contracted WSB to find new office space in Leeds.
March 2014 Rockstar Games receives the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award at the 10th British Academy Games Awards for creating innovative interactive worlds.
January 2014 Game of Glens was featured in Square Enix Collective's pilot crowdfunding phase, but received only 39% user support, leading to the project's halt in April 2014.
2013 Mark Noyce left Ruffian Games and moved to Finland to become an independent game developer, attempting to establish a Finnish satellite studio for the company.
2013 Collaborated with Rockstar North on the development and release of Grand Theft Auto V.
September 2013 Release of Grand Theft Auto V, which goes on to sell over 200 million copies, becoming the second-best-selling video game of all time.
February 2013 Ruffian Games announced Tribal Towers, a side-on real-time projectile combat game that was later reworked and put on hold due to complicated controls.

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