Grand Theft Auto (video game)
Grand Theft Auto is an action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. It was first released in Europe and North America in October 1997 for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was later re-released on 12 December 1997 in Europe and 30 June 1998 in North America for the PlayStation. It is the first instalment of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, to be followed by 1999's "Grand Theft Auto 2". The series, which has led to five main entries and several special edition games over 16 years, has sold more than 150 million units as of September 2013. The story follows a group of criminals in three fictionalised versions of US cities as they perform bank robberies, assassinations, and other illegal activities for their respective crime syndicates.
Rockstar North
"Grand Theft Auto IV" was released on 29 April 2008, after around four years of development, for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, marking the debut of the developer’s wildly popular "Grand Theft Auto" franchise on the seventh-generation of video game consoles. "GTA IV" was another huge financial and critical success, breaking sales records amongst all types of entertainment media. Rockstar North continued work on "GTA IV" in the form of two pieces of downloadable episodic content. The first of these, titled "", was released on 17 February 2009, with the second, "", released on 29 October 2009. Rockstar Games later released a disc based version of both episodes for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, titled "".