Rockstar Leeds, formerly known as Mobius Entertainment, is an England-based video game developer, founded in 1997 by the late Gordon Hall, Jason McGann, David Box and Ian Bowden as Mobius Entertainment. In April 2004, Rockstar Games acquired the company, rebranding it to Rockstar Leeds.
Description[]
Prior to Rockstar Games' acquisition, Mobius Entertainment worked on several licensed game titles, with focus on handheld console titles, including the Game Boy Advance port of Max Payne. Today, the company has a team consisting of over 30 games designers and programmers, dedicated to handheld game development. The company is situated in Lower Wortley, a town in Leeds, England, in an 18th Century converted church.[1]
The company has developed both Grand Theft Auto games for the PSP, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, and also helped develop the PS2 port of the former, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. They also developed Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS.
Alongside their main projects, Rockstar Leeds as a secondary art division of Rockstar Games work with Rockstar North and other studios in creating the game environment in Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2. The art team also deal with prop art and in-game branding, graphics and media, while other teams assist in animation, programming (camera, UX, game tools and more) and design (research media and gameplay).
Games[]
As Mobius Entertainment[]
- Alfred's Adventure (Game Boy Color)
- Alfred Chicken (PlayStation 1)
- Drome Racers (Game Boy Color)
- High Heat Major League Baseball 2002 (Game Boy Advance)
- Army Men: Turf Wars (Game Boy Advance)
- High Heat Major League Baseball 2003 (Game Boy Advance)
- Bionicle: The Game (Game Boy Advance)
- Barbie Horse Adventure (Game Boy Advance)
- American Idol: The Game (Game Boy Advance)
- Max Payne (Game Boy Advance)
- A Sound of Thunder (Game Boy Advance)
As Rockstar Leeds[]
- Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (PlayStation Portable)
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, with Rockstar North)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PlayStation Portable, with Rockstar North)
- The Warriors (PlayStation Portable)
- Manhunt 2 (PlayStation Portable)
- Rockstar Games Present Table Tennis (Wii)
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, with Rockstar North)
- Beaterator (PlayStation Portable, iPhone, iPod Touch)
- Max Payne 3 (Collaborative effort as part of Rockstar Studios)
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Collaborative effort as part of Rockstar Studios)
Employees[]
References[]
- ↑ Rockstar Leeds at IGN. URL accessed on May 23, 2006
