Rockstar Toronto

Rockstar Toronto (formerly Rockstar Canada) is an in-house game development team for Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, located at 586 Argus in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a town located approximately thirty-five kilometres west of Toronto. The company was renamed Rockstar Toronto in 2002 after Rockstar Games bought Vancouver-based Barking Dog Studios and renamed it Rockstar Vancouver.

While initially focusing on developing brand new titles such as The Warriors, in recent years Rockstar Toronto has taken the responsibility of porting Rockstar titles to the Wii console and PC. Their most recent project was co-developing a PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City with Rockstar North, which was released on April 13, 2010.

On July 9th, 2012, Rockstar announced that it will be expanding the studio over the next six months. The expansion will move the studio to a brand new facility in Oakville and create 50 new jobs. The expansion plan also includes closing the Rockstar Vancouver studio and merging the 35 developers with the Toronto team. The move is being financially supported by the Government of Ontario