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PC Gamer
Jody Macgregor

The story of Rockstar's logo is a glimpse at the chaos of its early days

The Rockstar logo on a smartphone

Rockstar's transformation from DMA Design—the Scottish developer behind the Lemming series as well as Grand Theft Auto—into an international publishing behemoth is a tale that's been told several times before. For starters, there's David Kushner's book Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, and BBC docudrama The Game Changers starring Daniel Radcliffe. There's even our own feature on how Rockstar made millions selling Scotland's natural export: dark comedy.

One story that hadn't been told in full is how the company's immediately recognizable logo with the R and star against a yellow background came to be. Until now, as Time Extension has tracked down former Rockstar designer Karen Scott (then Karen Mui), who explained how she and artist Jeremy Blake created the image that's become inseparable from the company.

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