"We're deliberately avoiding that right now", he said, according to a 1UP.com translation. In October 2011, Rockstar creative vice-president Dan Houser told Famitsu that Rockstar was intentionally avoiding developing in the first-person shooter genre. In March 2014, Rockstar Games received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award at the British Academy Video Games Awards. The newest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold roughly 85 million copies since it was released in 2013, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time, and Rockstar Games' most successful game yet.
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Īs of February 2014, Rockstar Games titles have shipped more than 250 million copies, the largest franchise being the Grand Theft Auto series which alone has shipments of at least 220 million. It is home to the marketing, public relations and product development departments.
The main headquarters of Rockstar Games (commonly referred to as Rockstar NYC) is located on Broadway in the NoHo neighborhood of New York City, part of the Take-Two Interactive offices. The Rockstar Games label was founded in 1998 by the British video game producers Sam Houser, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jamie King and Gary Foreman. While some of the studios Take-Two Interactive has acquired have been merged into the Rockstar brand, several other recent ones have retained their previous identities and have become part of the company's 2K Games division. Based in New York City, it is owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of British video game publisher BMG Interactive. Rockstar Games is a major American video game developer and publisher known for multi-million-selling games such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead, Midnight Club, Bully, The Warriors, Manhunt and Max Payne, as well as the use of open world, free roaming settings in their games.