Rockstar North is a typical American game publisher of the radical school, and most of the games released by this company have been on the fringes of the law. In 1999, Take-Two took over Grand Theft Auto from its former distributor BMG, and in November of that year, it officially purchased DMA and merged more than 80 of its employees into Rockstar, creating the "GTA" series development team under the responsibility of Rockstar North. After Take-Two took over Grand Theft Auto, David Jones left DMA after being displeased with the violence in the game, which is how the development company changed from DMA Design to Rockstar North after Grand Theft Auto 3.