Rockstar North

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Rockstar North Ltd. (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, best known for creating the Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings franchises in its earlier guise as DMA Design.Since September 1999 the company has been a subsidiary of Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two Interactive. It is the primary developer of the Grand Theft Auto series as well as working alongside other Rockstar studios on titles such as Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3.HistoryDMA DesignLate 1980s: FoundationDMA Design was founded in 1988 by David Jones in Dundee, Scotland, whose first employee was Mike Dailly followed by Russell Kay and Steve Hammond. The name DMA was taken from the Amiga programming manuals (where it stood for Direct Memory Access) and the initials were later 'retrofitted' so that they briefly stood for Direct Mind Access (DMA was also jokingly referred to as "Doesn't Mean Anything" by a company founder). In 1988 DMA signed with UK label Psygnosis and developed Menace and Blood Money – side-scrolling space shooters which gained attention from gamers and critics for both their high-quality presentation and difficulty. As with all the company's early games, Menace and Blood Money debuted on the Amiga, one of the leading platforms for video games in Europe between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. A Commodore 64 port was published immediately after, later followed by DOS and Atari ST versions.

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Rockstar North is Edinburgh based place and this enity listed in Arts & Marketing category.