Rockstar Lincoln

Rockstar Lincoln Limited

Headquarters at the Lindum Business Park
Formerly	Spidersoft Limited (1992–1998) Tarantula Studios (1998–2002)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	5 May 1992; 32 years ago (1992-05-05) in Lincoln, England
Founders	Steve Marsden David Cooke
Headquarters	North Hykeham , England
Parent	21st Century Entertainment (1995–1998) Take-Two Interactive (1998–2002) Rockstar Games (2002–present)

Rockstar Lincoln Limited (formerly Spidersoft Limited and Tarantula Studios) is a British video game developer based in North Hykeham. It is the quality assurance and localisation studio of Rockstar Games. Steve Marsden and David Cooke founded the company as Spidersoft in May 1992. It initially developed Game Boy and Game Gear ports of various games. Several of these were pinball video games for the publisher 21st Century Entertainment, which acquired the studio in 1995. Following 21st Century Entertainment's shutdown in 1998, Spiderosft was sold to Take-Two Interactive and renamed Tarantula Studios. The studio continued working on Game Boy and Game Boy Color games, including Grand Theft Auto (1999). In 2002, the development arm of Tarantula Studios was shut down and its quality assurance portion integrated into Take-Two's Rockstar Games label as Rockstar Lincoln.