The Rockstar team's contract is up for renewal in February 2009.
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BioShock as a franchise is no slouch, but while it can go toe to toe with the Rockstar behemoth in review scores, it is not a comparable seller.
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Meanwhile, 20 employees a quarter qualify for the Rockstar award, which consists of four tickets to a showcase concert or sporting event, along with two nights in an upscale hotel.
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Take-Two not only pays Rockstar salaries, but it doles out millions of dollars of "internal royalties" to the Rockstar team every quarter, a move that could prompt EA's own developers to start demanding more money, too, if EA brings Rockstar on board.
The arrangement follows a similar one between Take Two and the team at Rockstar Games behind the "Grand Theft Auto" franchise.
Something about the trademark Rockstar insanity set against an HD world fell apart for me.
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Then again, I said the same thing when Rockstar put zombies out on the frontier, and it worked out alright for them.
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Fortunately, many of the staff of Bondi moved over to the buyer of its IP, and others to Rockstar, the publishers of L.A. Noire.
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Justine Rivero is the Credit Advisor and resident Credit Rockstar for Credit Karma, the pro-consumer credit advocate that helps more than 2.6 million consumers realize the everyday cost savings of having great credit health.
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Every weekend from May through August, more than 3, 500 movie-goers walk past the graves of celebrities like 1960s screen siren Jayne Mansfield and rockstar Johnny Ramone to the screening area on the Fairbanks Lawn near the crypts of silver screen stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Sr.
After such a lengthy silence, the three batches of screenshots Rockstar Games released last week sent Grand Theft Auto fans into a frenzy.
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Rockstar Games returned the hardened gunman to action this week with "Max Payne 3, " a stunning sequel that jams a whopping amount of action into both its single-player story and multiplayer modes.
Rockstar already mastered the art of western wildlife with Red Dead Redemption, and putting a few of those critters into GTA would be just the kind of thing the state of San Andreas might need to feel alive.
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The company has quietly snapped up more than a thousand patents in the past six months from Rockstar Consortium, a move that helps bolster it as it battles Google, Samsung, and other Android backers in the mobile-device market.
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Kurtz argued that the position would require a "rockstar"--someone like a CEO, a former senator or a former Secretary of Defense.
The Apple version works on all iPads, the latest iPod Touch and the iPhone 4 and 4S. Rockstar has posted a list of supported Android devices as well.
Rockstar is also behind the Grand Theft Auto games.
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The downside: He'll own Rockstar, a hit factory whose risk-taking sometimes veers into recklessness.
"It is not about creating the next multinational, it is about creating a series of micro-businesses, giving you enough capital to start your own business, " said Ketan Makwana, from Rockstar Youth, one of the organisations administering the loans.
In the past year alone, household names like Pepsi, Gatorade G2, Rockstar Energy Drinks and Jolly Time Popcorn have invested in national marketing efforts with the industry.
It crashes, and the driver gets out and has to run, at which point the game looks a little bit like a Rockstar title.
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Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch have all jumped in, as well as a number of upstart brands like Rockstar, Monster and Crunk, the latter being peddled by Grey Goose entrepreneur Sidney Frank.
Rockstar Games has been helping to expand the audience for games with each new release.
Developer Rockstar Games said it did not understand the decision to spend public money repeating a certification process it had already passed.
Rockstar will not be drawn until after the launch of their current megasequel, Max Payne 3, but a Christmas launch of GTAV makes good commercial sense.
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He added that Rockstar hoped to have a constructive dialogue about the game with anti-bullying charities once it was finished.
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What strikes me most about these images is how Rockstar has blended realism and something similar to the cartoon art style of Borderlands 2.
Rockstar has invited Bullying Online to New York to see the game for themselves.
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"These guys are a BIG compensation problem, " Piper Jaffray analyst Anthony Gikas wrote of Rockstar's developers in a note cautioning investors about the deal.
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