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Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games, founded December 1998 in New York by Sam and Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, and Jamie King, is Take-Two's label behind Grand Theft Auto (nearly 465 million units sold-in), Red Dead Redemption, and Max Payne; GTA VI launches November 19, 2026.
Rockstar North
Rockstar North, formerly DMA Design of Dundee, is the Edinburgh, Scotland studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series and Manhunt, owned by Rockstar Games/Take-Two, and lead developer of Grand Theft Auto VI, launching November 19, 2026.
Rockstar San Diego
Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios) is a Carlsbad, California game studio acquired by Take-Two in 2002 for $28 million; home of the RAGE engine and the Red Dead and Midnight Club games.
Rocksteady
Rocksteady: Jamaican popular music style of roughly 1966–1968, between ska and reggae; half-speed ska with prominent bass, piano for trombone, vocal trios like the Heptones and Paragons, Alton Ellis and Ken Boothe as key figures.
Rocksteady Studios
Rocksteady Studios, London-based Warner Bros. game developer founded December 2004, creator of the Batman: Arkham series (Asylum, City, Knight, VR) and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, whose 2024 flop caused a $200 million loss and layoffs.
Rockville, Maryland
Rockville, Maryland, is the county seat of Montgomery County in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Also called Williamsburgh and Montgomery Court House historically; incorporated 1860; population 67,000 (2020); core of the I-270 technology corridor.
Rockwell (musician)
Rockwell is the stage name of Kennedy William Gordy (born 1964), son of Motown founder Berry Gordy, whose 1983 single "Somebody's Watching Me" featuring Michael Jackson hit No. 2 on the Hot 100 and went gold.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation is an American industrial automation company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, tracing to the Allen-Bradley Company founded in 1903 and known for programmable logic controllers.
Rockwell B-1 Lancer
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer, or B-1 bomber, is a supersonic swing-wing heavy bomber of the United States Air Force, operational since 1986 with its nuclear mission ended in 1992.
Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins was an American avionics and communications company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spun off from Rockwell International in 2001 and acquired by United Technologies in 2018.
Rockwell Emulate3D
Rockwell Emulate3D is digital twin software for building physics-based 3D models of industrial automation systems and testing them with real PLC logic, sold by Rockwell Automation since 2019.
Rockwell hardness
Rockwell hardness is a measure of a metal's resistance to localized plastic deformation, determined by an indentation test and reported with a scale letter such as HRC.
Rockwell hardness test
The Rockwell hardness test is an indentation hardness test for metals that measures hardness from the difference in penetration depth between minor and major loads, standardized in ASTM E18 and ISO 6508.
Rockwell International
Rockwell International, formerly North American Rockwell, was an American conglomerate spanning aerospace, defense, electronics, and automotive components; it sold its aerospace businesses to Boeing in 1996.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator known for stark landscapes of Newfoundland, Alaska, and Greenland and his celebrated woodcut-illustrated 1930 edition of Moby Dick.
Rockwell X-30
The Rockwell X-30 was a planned American experimental aircraft, part of the National Aero-Space Plane program, intended to reach orbit using scramjet engines; Congress canceled it in 1994.
Rockwood Capital Real Estate Partners
Rockwood Capital is a New York-based real estate private equity investment manager, majority-owned by Colliers International Group since 2022, with over $10 billion in assets under management.
Rockwood Hall
Rockwood Hall was William Rockefeller's Gilded Age estate in Mount Pleasant, New York, with a 204-room mansion, the second largest private home in the US after Biltmore, landscaped by Olmsted, demolished 1941-42, now an 88-acre section of Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
Rocky
Rocky film franchise: nine boxing films, 1976–2023, from Rocky (1976, three Oscars including Best Picture) through Rocky Balboa to the Creed trilogy; nearly $2 billion worldwide, starring Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan.
Rocky (1981 film)
Rocky (रॉकी) is a 1981 Hindi action-romance film directed by Sunil Dutt, the debut of Sanjay Dutt, with Reena Roy and Tina Munim, music by R.D. Burman, runtime 151 minutes, IMDb 6.5/10.
Rocky (2021 film)
Rocky (2021) is Arun Matheswaran's Tamil directorial debut, a violent revenge drama starring Vasanth Ravi and Bharathiraja, released 23 December 2021, presented by Vignesh Shivan and Nayanthara, noted as among the most violent Tamil films.
Rocky (franchise)
Rocky (franchise): American boxing film series begun with Rocky (1976), written by and starring Sylvester Stallone; nine films plus the Creed trilogy, 12 Oscar nominations, three wins, nearly $2 billion gross, and the Philadelphia Rocky Steps and statue.
Rocky Aoki (青木廣彰)
Rocky Aoki (青木廣彰, Hiroaki Aoki, 1938–2008), Japanese-born American restaurateur, wrestler, and adventurer; founded Benihana in New York in 1964, popularizing teppanyaki performance dining; father of Steve and Devon Aoki.
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (रॉकी और रानी की प्रेम कहानी)
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (रॉकी और रानी की प्रेम कहानी), RARKPK, is Karan Johar's 2023 Hindi romantic comedy family drama starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, released 28 July 2023, grossing about $45 million worldwide and winning the National Film Award for Best Popular Film.
Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa (Robert 'Rocky' Balboa, The Italian Stallion) is Sylvester Stallone's fictional Philadelphia boxer from Rocky (1976), a 10-Oscar-nomination Best Picture winner, head of a $1 billion franchise, and subject of the famous Rocky Statue and Rocky Steps.
Rocky Balboa (film)
Rocky Balboa, also known as Rocky 6, is a 2006 American sports drama written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone, in which the retired boxer returns for an exhibition bout against champion Mason Dixon.
Rocky Bleier
Rocky Bleier, born Robert Patrick Bleier in 1946, is a former Pittsburgh Steelers running back who won four Super Bowls after being wounded in the Vietnam War.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll (Roscoe Fulton Carroll), born 1963 in Cincinnati, is an American actor and director, Tony-nominated for The Piano Lesson, known as Joey on Roc, Dr. Keith Wilkes on Chicago Hope, and NCIS Director Leon Vance on NCIS from 2008 to 2026, later directing over 25 episodes.
Rocky Colavito
Rocky Colavito (Rocco Domenico Colavito, 1933–2024) was an All-Star Cleveland Indians outfielder who led the AL with 42 home runs in 1959; his 1960 trade for Harvey Kueng spawned "The Curse of Rocky Colavito."
Rocky De La Fuente
Rocky De La Fuente (Roque De La Fuente Guerra), San Diego real estate entrepreneur and perennial candidate; 2016 Democratic primary contender, Reform Party and American Delta Party nominee, 2018 nine-state Senate primary loser, 2020 Alliance and Reform Party nominee, and ballot-access litigant.