Rockstar Interactive India LLP | |
Logo Alt: | A capital "R" in gold with a five-pointed, white star with a gold outline appended to its lower-right end. They lay on a dark-green square with a gold outline and rounded corners. |
Trade Name: | Rockstar India |
Type: | Subsidiary |
Industry: | Video games |
Founders: | --> |
Hq Location City: | Bangalore |
Hq Location Country: | India |
Num Employees: | ≈800 |
Num Employees Year: | 2019 |
Parent: | Rockstar Games |
Rockstar Interactive India LLP (trade name: Rockstar India) is an Indian video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Bangalore. The company was established in August 2016 and is led by studio director Daniel Smith. It absorbed Dhruva Interactive, India's oldest game developer, in May 2019.
Prior to the creation of Rockstar India, Rockstar Games had collaborated with Technicolor India, the Bangalore studio of Technicolor SA, on games like Red Dead Redemption (2010), L.A. Noire (2011), and Max Payne 3 (2012). In October 2012, Technicolor and Rockstar Games announced the opening of the "Rockstar Dedicated Unit" within Technicolor India, which was to size around 80–90 people and work solely on Rockstar Games' products. Around August 2016, Rockstar Games established Rockstar India as an internal studio in Bangalore. Daniel Smith was installed as the studio manager. The studio was part of the development team on Red Dead Redemption 2, which was released in October 2018. In May 2019, Rockstar Games agreed to acquire Starbreeze Studios's majority stake in Dhruva Interactive, the oldest game developer in India, for . Dhruva Interactive's team of 300 people was to be integrated with Rockstar India, which had grown to approximately 500 employees by this time. The acquisition was completed later that month.
Title | Platform(s) | Publisher(s) | Notes | ||
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2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | Windows, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox One | Rockstar Games | Developed as part of Rockstar Games |
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