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Originally Posted by Redway
Sorry to burst your bubble but G.T.A. is very much an American thing.
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Incorrect, the original GTA was entirely the IP of DMA Design Limited, which was a games company founded and based in Dundee, Scotland. DMA was bought by Rockstar Games which is a US based company (now under also-US-based Take Two Interactive), and became Rockstar
North, which has its headquarters in Edinburgh.
A lot (but not all) of the production of the newer GTA games takes place in the US mainly because the games are US-centric and they're also HUGE now so hundreds of people work on them. But up until, at the very least, the Vice City/San Andreas era you can see tonnes of British influence in the games, as they were still mainly done in-house with Rockstar North.
tl;dr it's owned by American parent companies but the original GTA IP is very much British (Scottish
) and a lot of the work on GTA to this day takes place at Rockstar North.