DMA Design

DMA Design was a video game developer founded in 1988 in Dundee by David Jones, who had written the shoot 'em up Menace for the Amiga and published it through Psygnosis. Friends from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club joined him, and the studio became widely known for Lemmings, released in 1991. After the success of Grand Theft Auto in 1997, Take-Two Interactive bought the game's intellectual property and formed Rockstar Games, and Infogrames sold DMA Design to Take-Two in 1999. Take-Two merged it with Rockstar Games as Rockstar Studios in March 2002, and it was renamed Rockstar North that May. Based in Edinburgh, it has continued the Grand Theft Auto series. This entry records the company under its original name; its source article is titled for its present name.