Irrational No More

An anonymous reader writes "Cory Banks at Gamers With Jobs has an interesting look at Irrational Games becoming '2K Boston'/'2K Australia' on the eve of the Bioshock release. It's not just about 2K and Irrational, publishers re-naming independents to generic studio names has obviously been going on for a long time. 'Rockstar Games is often credited with the Grand Theft Auto series, but the games were developed by Scottish developer DMA Designs, who were bought by Rockstar in 2002, shortly after GTA III came out, and quickly renamed Rockstar North to build up the brand recognition associated with the mega-blockbuster. Rockstar isn't even a development company at all, but a collection of development studios owned by Take-Two, sharing one brand name. The general public hardly knows the difference.'"

DMA Lemmings

[Jonah Hex]

DMA before they became Rockstar North [wikipedia.org] - Creators of one of the best puzzle games ever, which crossed sex and age barriers, Lemmings. Those green guys with the purple wavy hairdos truly rocked.

Jonah HEX

Re:DMA Lemmings

[biovoid]

Those pink guys with the green wavy hairdos and blue tunics truly rocked.

Fixed! :)

Re:Too bad...

[atomicstrawberry]

No, System Shock 2 (and a pile of other excellent games) were by Looking Glass Studios. When Looking Glass Studios died, a few of them got together and formed Irrational Games. They may have some of the same developers, but saying that Irrational developed System Shock 2 isn't strictly true.

Re:Too bad...

[Zeussy]

Ding, you have the correct answer. Looking Glass went to Irrational to co-produce the game.

Re:Too bad...

[Anonymous Coward]

Irrational was founded before LG died. LG contributed the game engine and know-how. Irrational did the rest of the game development, which is the big part.

Just watch the credits.avi video. (What's your nick on TTLG?)