Release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Date: October 26, 2004 • Location: Washington, United States

Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, considered one of the best video games ever made, in North America.

Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from BMG Interactive. Founding members of the company were Terry Donovan, Gary Foreman, Dan and Sam Houser, and Jamie King, who worked for Take-Two at the time, and of which the Houser brothers were previously executives at BMG Interactive. Sam Houser heads the studio as president.