34-622: Bobby Krlic (born 20 December 1985), known by his stage name The Haxan Cloak , is a British composer, artist, music producer and musician. The Haxan Cloak has released two full-length albums (2011's The Haxan Cloak and 2013's Excavation ). As a producer, Krlic has worked with artists including Björk , Father John Misty , Khalid , Troye Sivan , Goldfrapp , serpentwithfeet and The Body . He has also composed several soundtracks , credited under his real name, including Ari Aster 's 2019 horror film Midsommar , and television series Snowpiercer , Angel of Darkness and Reprisal . Krlic
68-438: A decade, both critically and commercially". Jennifer Kolbe, who started at the front desk of Take-Two, acts as Rockstar Games' head of publishing and oversees all development studios. Simon Ramsey is the company's head of PR and communications. In May 2019, Rockstar Games announced that they were acquiring Dhruva Interactive from Starbreeze Studios for $ 7.9 million , with the sale being finalized later that month and
102-479: A normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 84 based on 16 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Pitchfork named Excavation the 29th best album of 2013, and Rolling Stone called it the 16th best dance album of 2013. Rockstar Games Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company
136-515: A raffle prize, to charity live streams . In 1999, Donovan and Sam Houser cooperated with John Davis to establish the Rockstar Loft club night . Davis had co-founded and been the promoter for Body & Soul, a "no-guestlist, no velvet rope party" held weekly at Tribeca 's Club Vinyl. When Rockstar Games' founder originally arrived in New York City, former DJ Donovan was particularly impressed with Body & Soul, and they became close with
170-489: Is also a major contributor to the uncanny feeling the movie creates. Top Stuff." Krlic moved from London to Los Angeles in 2015. As of 2016, he resides in the Silver Lake area. Excavation (The Haxan Cloak album) Excavation is the second studio album by The Haxan Cloak , released on Tri Angle Records on April 16, 2013. Excavation received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic , which assigns
204-411: Is used in most of Rockstar Games's titles for personal computers and consoles , including Red Dead Redemption , Grand Theft Auto IV , Max Payne 3 , Grand Theft Auto V , and Red Dead Redemption 2 . Rockstar Games Social Club is an online gaming service created by Rockstar Games for authentication and multiplayer applications within their games. Most branding relating to Social Club
238-520: The 2020 Ivor Novello Awards . Within television, Krlic has scored a number of major network shows including TNT's Snowpiercer and Angel of Darkness , Hulu's Reprisal and Netflix 's Seven Seconds . In 2020 he collaborated with Swans on a Halloween Pass of Red Dead Redemption 2 by Rockstar Games . In 2014, The Haxan Cloak toured the United States visiting Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. He performed at
272-561: The Brooklyn Masonic Temple along with Robert Henke and his music and light show, Lumière , and in Los Angeles with Pharmakon. The New York Times called The Haxan Cloak's set "amorphous, ominous and immersive, a transcendent plunge into darkness and overwhelming pressure". The Haxan Cloak performed a solo show at Manchester International Festival in 2017. Bobby Krlic also joined Björk on her Vulnicura tour in
306-467: The Dhruva team merged into Rockstar India . In September 2019, Rockstar Games announced that they had released their own game launcher, a digital distribution , digital rights management , multiplayer and communications service. After having taken an extended break following the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 in early 2019, Dan Houser left Rockstar Games on March 11, 2020. The company acquired
340-560: The Houser brothers and King at BMG Interactive, but left the company when it was acquired by Take-Two Interactive, and joined Capcom 's European operations as managing director in 2003. As of February 2014, Rockstar Games titles have shipped more than 250 million copies, the largest franchise being the Grand Theft Auto series, which alone has shipments of at least 250 million as of November 2016. Grand Theft Auto V shipped
374-435: The Houser brothers, Donovan and King established Rockstar Games as the "high-end" publishing label of Take-Two. The formation was formally announced on January 22, 1999. In January 2007, Take-Two announced that Donovan, until then managing director for Rockstar Games, had left the company following a four-month leave of absence. He was succeeded by Gary Dale, who became chief operating officer. Dale previously worked with
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#1732787514548408-754: The Rockstar Games logo with individual colors. As of 2018, the company employs more than 2,000 people across all offices. The studios frequently collaborate and were collectively credited as Rockstar Studios in Max Payne 3 , and simply as Rockstar Games in Red Dead Redemption 2 . Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) is a game engine developed by the Rockstar San Diego -internal RAGE Technology Group , created to facilitate game development on all platforms since 2006. RAGE
442-631: The Scottish studio Ruffian Games in October 2020, rebranding the studio as Rockstar Dundee. In September 2022, Rockstar was the target of a data breach in which 90 videos from the development of Grand Theft Auto VI were leaked. Rockstar described the leak as a "network intrusion", and noted that it was "extremely disappointed" by the manner in which the game was first demonstrated, but that it did not anticipate long-term effects on development. In August 2023, Rockstar acquired Cfx.re (CitizenFX),
476-628: The Swedish "häxan", meaning "the witch". Excavation was rated a 9 out of 10 by Spin, and an 8.7 out of 10 by Pitchfork, who also named it the 29th-best album of 2013. Rolling Stone named it the 16th-best dance album of 2013. Midsommar received wide critical praise including a 9/10 from The Line of Best Fit , ranked 2 in Insider's Top 20 Best Movie and TV Soundtracks of The Decade, and critic Glenn Kenny of The New York Times stating that “The remarkable music score by Bobby Krlic aka The Haxan Cloak
510-477: The U.S (including The Governor's Ball in New York) and Europe. Krlic's music is almost entirely instrumental, and is often described as dark, carefully constructed, textured and atmospheric, with heavy bass and elements of drone metal . Of his albums, Krlic has said, "The first record was about a person's decline towards death, so this one's about the journey he takes afterwards." The name Haxan Cloak derives from
544-439: The assets of dormant British video game publisher BMG Interactive from BMG Entertainment (a unit of Bertelsmann ). In exchange, Take-Two was to issue 1.85 million shares (around 16%) of its common stock to BMG Entertainment. Through this acquisition, Take-Two obtained several of BMG Interactive's former intellectual properties , including DMA Design 's Grand Theft Auto and Space Station Silicon Valley . The deal
578-424: The club night's team, including Davis and its other founder, DJ François K . Davis had sought to establish further such events, while Donovan and Houser wanted to get publicity for the young Rockstar Games, thus they established Rockstar Loft. According to Donovan, the event was to serve as an alternative those that were overly expensive or had attendees "bulldozed by security". He precluded video game installations at
612-633: The company. One of such action-adventure game franchises is Grand Theft Auto , which Rockstar Games took over from BMG Interactive, which published the series' original 1997 entry . The most recent main game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V , has sold over 200 million copies since its release in September 2013, making it the second- best-selling video game of all time . Other popular franchises published by Rockstar Games are Red Dead , Midnight Club , Max Payne , and Manhunt . On March 12, 1998, Take-Two Interactive announced its acquisition of
646-403: The events leading up to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . Both were bundled with the game's special edition released in 2005. In May 2021, Rockstar Games launched the record label CircoLoco Records in collaboration with Circoloco , an Ibiza -based dance party. The collaboration grew from a friendship between Sam Houser and Circoloco's promoter, Antonio Carbonaro. According to Nick Benedetti,
680-518: The first one in 1999, and Rockstar Dundee the most recent in 2020. All companies organized under Rockstar Games bear the "Rockstar" name and logo. In this context, Rockstar Games is sometimes also referred to as Rockstar New York, Rockstar NY or Rockstar NYC. Rockstar Games also sports a motion capture studio in Bethpage, New York . Rockstar Games predominantly publishes games in the action-adventure genre, while racing games also saw success for
714-606: The goalpoint of Rockstar is to have the players really feel what we're trying to do." Houser went on to say "Our games up to now have been different from any genre that existed at the time; we made new genres by ourselves with games like the GTA series. We didn't rely on testimonials in a business textbook to do what we've done. ... If we make the sort of games we want to play, then we believe people are going to buy them." The company has been involved with charitable work ranging from supporting Movember and offering appearances in games as
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#1732787514548748-559: The highest number of units within the series' and the company's history, with over 170 million copies, making it the second best-selling video game of all time . At the 10th British Academy Games Awards in March 2014, Rockstar Games was honored with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award for "creating intricately layered interactive worlds that have kept the company at the forefront of the gaming industry for over
782-400: The liking of the operator, the caller would receive their entry ticket in the mail. The first Rockstar Loft was held in western Chelsea, Manhattan , on October 30, 1999, with Andi Hanley (a regular of Body & Soul), Bob Sinclar , and Dimitri from Paris as headlining DJs. Thereafter, it was held "every few months", with one happening on February 19, 2000. Later that year, Rockstar Loft
816-565: The party's manager, Rockstar Games and Circoloco intended to "contribute something new and meaningful" to the dance music scene, which had faced hardships because of the lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic . CircoLoco Records' first release, Monday Dreamin' , was released as a series of extended plays starting in June 2021. Outside of its New York City headquarters, Rockstar Games operates nine subsidiary studios. All studios use
850-552: The same year he produced Victim by noise rock band HEALTH . Krlic also collaborated with Björk as a co-producer on her album Vulnicura , released in January 2015. Since then, he has produced serpentwithfeet 's E.P. Blisters , Goldfrapp 's 2017 album Silver Eye , Heaven by Khalid from 2019's Free Spirit , and by Troye Sivan 's 2018 single Animal . He also produced Father John Misty 's cover of Fallin' Rain . and co-produced his 2020 singles To S. / To R . Krlic
884-448: The team behind the modding platforms FiveM and RedM for Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 respectively. Michael Unsworth, vice president of writing, departed the company in 2023 after sixteen years. In October 2011, Dan Houser told Famitsu that Rockstar Games was intentionally avoiding developing games in the first-person shooter genre, because "it is in our DNA to avoid doing what other companies are doing ...
918-404: The venue to focus on the music and highlight the artists. As it could not afford frequent television advertisements , Rockstar Games resorted to guerrilla marketing teams distributing fly posters and stickers. Tickets for Rockstar Loft were originally not sold in advance. Instead, potential guests were to call a phone number and face seven questions regarding their personality. If answered to
952-456: Was announced to have closed on March 25. Three BMG Interactive executives— Dan Houser , Sam Houser , and Jamie King—as well as Gary Foreman of BMG Interactive and Terry Donovan of BMG Entertainment's Arista Records record label, subsequently moved to New York City to work for Take-Two Interactive. In a restructuring announced that April, Sam Houser was appointed as Take-Two's "vice president of worldwide product development". In December 1998,
986-646: Was born and raised in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , England. He is of Serbian descent. He studied music and visual arts at the University of Brighton . Krlic's first release as The Haxan Cloak was the Observatory E.P., landing as a cassette via Aurora Borealis on Halloween 2010. A year later, Krlic recorded his first album, The Haxan Cloak , in his parents' shed using strings, mics and a laptop, playing every instrument himself. The second LP, Excavation ,
1020-647: 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. Since 1999, several companies acquired by or established under Take-Two have become part of Rockstar Games, such as Rockstar Canada (later renamed Rockstar Toronto) becoming
1054-432: Was invited by Oscar-winning score composer Atticus Ross to work with him on Michael Mann 's film Blackhat released in 2015. In 2016, Krlic continued his work with Ross, co-scoring Triple 9 , directed by John Hillcoat , and the soundtrack to Almost Holy , a documentary directed by Steve Hoover . In 2019, Krlic scored Ari Aster 's second feature horror film Midsommar , for which Krlic won Best Original Score at
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1088-607: Was not interested. In 2004, Rockstar Games produced the sports drama film The Football Factory . Based on the book of the same name by John King , the film revolves around organized football hooliganism in the United Kingdom . The company also produced Sunday Driver , a documentary about the Majestics Lowrider Club in Compton, California , and The Introduction , an animated film that details
1122-681: Was released in 2013, and has a more electronic feel, using samples and heavy bass, along with distorted field recordings made by Krlic. In 2012, The Haxan Cloak released a limited edition, one track, 27-minute live recording, The Men Parted the Sea to Devour the Water , as a part of Southern Records ' Latitudes series. Krlic has also released remixes of songs by other artists under The Haxan Cloak, including Father John Misty Foals and Björk . In 2014, Krlic teamed up with American sludge metal band The Body to produce their 2014 album I Shall Die Here . In
1156-595: Was wound down. Kirk Ewing—a friend of the Houser brothers who had worked with Rockstar Games on State of Emergency —stated that, around the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001, Rockstar Games had been offered $ 5 million for a film based on the Grand Theft Auto franchise. He had received a phone call from a producer in Los Angeles requesting the rights for a film to be directed by Tony Scott of Top Gun and starring rapper Eminem . When he relayed this proposal to Sam Houser, Houser said that he
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