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Leslie Peter Benzies (born 17 January 1971) is a Scottish video game producer and the former president of Rockstar North, a subsidiary of Rockstar Games.He was the lead developer on the Grand Theft Auto series, taking responsibility from Grand Theft Auto III to Grand Theft Auto V (including Grand Theft Auto Online).
Take-Two Interactive is an American video game holding company. They have acquired many publishers and developers since the company's foundation in 1993. Today, most of Take-Two Interactive's developers operate as subsidiaries of its publishing arms: 2K and Rockstar Games.
The move to buy back shares was seen by analysts of the company's assurance in Grand Theft Auto V, which was released in September 2013. Grand Theft Auto V has since sold nearly 100 million units by 2018, making it one of the most successful video games ever and bringing an estimated US$6 billion to Take-Two, increasing its stock value by more ...
Grand Theft Auto: Mission Pack #2 – London 1961: MS-DOS: July 1, 1999: Rockstar Canada [2] Windows [2] Monster Truck Madness 64: Nintendo 64: July 30, 1999: Edge of Reality [3] Grand Theft Auto 2: Windows: October 22, 1999: DMA Design [4] PlayStation [5] Dreamcast: April 30, 2000 [6] Game Boy Color: December 12, 2000: Tarantula Studios [7 ...
Take-Two Interactive Software has been riding the success of its most successful franchise, GTA V, this year. Shares have already gained close to 24% as Take-Two delivered better-than-expected ...
Grand Theft Auto Online launched on 1 October 2013, two weeks after Grand Theft Auto V 's release. [84] Many players reported connection difficulties and game freezes during load screens. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Rockstar released a technical patch on 5 October in an effort to resolve the issues, [ 87 ] but problems persisted the second week as some ...
Brothers Dan Houser (left) and Sam Houser (right) are two of the co-founders of Rockstar Games. Dan left the company in 2020; Sam is the president. On March 12, 1998, Take-Two Interactive announced its acquisition of the assets of dormant British video game publisher BMG Interactive from BMG Entertainment (a unit of Bertelsmann).
Grand Theft Auto IV ' s production encompassed 220 people at the studio and 1,000 worldwide. Benzies estimated the budget at $100 million. [117] Upon its April 2008 release, Grand Theft Auto IV broke the record for the highest revenue for a game within one day at $310 million from 3.6 million copies sold. [118]