Rockstar North Ltd.

Moby ID: 146

History add

December 18, 2003: Scottish consultant Mark Gallagher launches a £1.5m legal action claiming to have shown his game Crime, Inc. to DMA Design during a job interview in 1993 with the company, and that 1997's Grand Theft Auto was ripped off from his original work.
2002: DMA Design is renamed to Rockstar North to match its label, Rockstar Games.
2000: The company moves to Edinburgh, Scotland.
September 29, 1999: The company is acquired by Take-Two Interactive Software from Infogrames Entertainment for $11 million in cash. Dave Jones, original founder of DMA Design, leaves to take up a job at Denki and 3 years later creates his own company Realtime Worlds.
June 1999: Infogrames acquires Gremlin Interactive and plans to sell DMA Design.
December 1996: The company is sold to British publisher Gremlin Interactive.
1988: Company founded as DMA Design by Dave Jones, Russell Kay, Steve Hammond and Mike Dailly in Dundee, Scotland.