Rockstar London created Manhunt 2 and Midnight Club LA and is located in London near Rockstar's European publishing headquarters. Rockstar North, based in Scotland, develops the core Grand Theft Auto games and produces downloadable content for titles like GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar Leeds focuses on handheld Rockstar games like the GTA series and is based in Leeds, England. Rockstar Lincoln, located in Lincoln, England, handles quality assurance and localization for Rockstar titles.

1. Rockstar London – Creators of Manhunt 2 and also Midnight Club LA. Rockstar London was the
second newest studio to join the Rockstar games family. Rockstar London is located on Kings
Road, London, in the same building as the Rockstar’s European publishing headquarters. Rockstar
London were nominated for the develop industry excellence awards 2008 in the category of the
best new UK/European studio alongside Finblade, Konami Paris, Oxygen Studios and Double six.
Rockstar North – This branch producers a lot of the DLC for Rockstar games, including, GTA IV
add-ons such as “The Ballad Of Gay Tony” and “The Lost And Damned”. Rockstar North is a
Scottish Video game developer, best known for creating the Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings
franchises in its earlier guise as DMA. The company is a part of Rockstar games, owned by Take
Two Interactive. Rockstar north is the primary developer of the GTA series, including, GTA IV, GTA
SA, GTA Vice City and Grand Theft Auto. These games are some of the best selling games to
date.
Rockstar Leeds – Rockstar Leeds produce the handheld Rockstar games. GTA is the most
popular Rockstar handheld game. Rockstar Leeds is an English Video game developer. Based in
the city Of Leeds, the branch has created games for the Game boy Advanced as well as Midnight
club 3:Dub Edition. The company consists of 75 game designers and game programmers. In April
2004, the company was acquired by Rockstar games and renamed Rockstar Leeds after formerly
known as Mobius Entertainment.
Rockstar Lincoln – Rockstar Lincoln focus on the testing and translating of games. Rockstar
Lincoln was formerly known as Tarantula Studios. Located in the City of Lincoln in the East
Midlands of England, is Rockstar Games, dedicated to quality assurance and software localisation.
This studio is responsible for game testing like said above, before this however, the studio used to
develop games such as the Grand Theft Auto series for the Game Boy Colour.
Rockstar NYC – The Rockstar studios based in NYC is the headquarters of Rockstar games. The
Rockstar games studios was founded in NYC in 1998 by the British Video Game Producers Sam
Houser, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jamie King and Gary Foreman. The headquarters is located
on Broadway in the SoHo neighbourhood of New York City, Part of the Take Two Interactive
offices.
Rockstar San Diego – Red Dead Redemption was produced here, also the RAGE engine for
games such as GTA was created here. Formerly known as Angel Studios, is one of the
development studios under the Rockstar games umbrella. The studio pioneered open world racing
games with the Midtown Madness and Midnight club series. The studio is also responsible for the
new Red Dead Redemption. The most important thing that the studio produced was the RAGE
engine which like said above is used in many of the new rockstar games.
Rockstar Vancouver – This studio produced titles such as Bully and Max Payne. Located in
downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Rockstar Vancouver released Bully, a controversial title
exclusively for the Playstation 2 on October 17th
2006. Rockstar Vancouver employs 75 people and
develops action titles exclusively for Rockstar Games. Rockstar Vancouver aare currently well
focused on the release of the new Max Payne 3.

2. Rockstar New England – Xbox 360 ports for Bully. Rockstar New England, formally, Mad Doc
Software, is a computer game development company founded in 1998 by Dr. Ian Lane Davis. The
company is based in New England in Andover, Massachusetts, just North of Boston.
Rockstar Toronto – This branch created ports for Rockstar games for the PC and Wii. Rockstar
Toronto, formerly known as Rockstar Canada is a in-house game development team for Rockstar
Games and Take Two Interactive, located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a town located
approximately twenty minutes west of Toronto. Recent years have made Rockstar Toronto take the
responsibility of porting titles to the Wii console and PC.
The Rage Engine
The rage engine, which is short for “Rockstar advanced game engine” is a game engine created b
a small group of people called the RAGE technology group. The group where formed in Rockstar
studios San Diego with a few contributors from other Rockstar studios. Rockstar developed the
engine to facilitate game development on the PC, Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 consoles. RAGE
simply evolved from a past game engine titled the Angel Game Engine. This engine was to be
used in the sixth generation console era versions of the Midnight Club series and other Rockstar
games.
Games that have used the RAGE engine include;
- Rockstar table tennis
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Midnight club: Los Angeles
- Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
- Red Dead Redemption
- Max Payne