Following 21st Century Entertainment's shutdown in 1998, Spidersoft was sold to Take-Two Interactive and renamed Tarantula Studios.

[4] Marsden initially intended to keep tropical fish at the office but found that this would have required regularly cleaning their tanks.

[7] Outside of pinball projects, Hewson set up the studio with Sony Imagesoft to develop Cliffhanger as a tie-in for the 1993 film.

[6] As the publisher increasingly focused on pinball games, Hewson lost his passion for the business, which he felt became "formulaic".

In 1997, he was offered to join a start-up founded by old contacts of his, so he agreed with his co-investors to part ways and wind down the company.

In October 1999, the studio employed 24 development staff and was in the process of hiring 15 quality assurance workers.

[17] As part of Rockstar Games, the studio provides quality assurance and localisations—including French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish—for internal projects, such as Manhunt, Max Payne 2, and the Grand Theft Auto series.

[18] In January 2011, Mark Lloyd, Rockstar Lincoln's long-time studio head who had been with the company since 1999, announced his resignation.

A survey it conducted with its employees led East Midlands Trains to provide several additional stops at Hykeham railway station, within walking distance from the office, from May 2016.

Former and active employees reported that testers were paid low wages, had to work long hours, and were subjected to strict security regulations.

One employee stated that mandatory overtime for working on Red Dead Redemption 2 started in August 2017, prior to Rockstar Games entering "official crunch mode" that October.

In contrast, regular testers were paid by the hour and, depending on how long they worked, earned more than their leads.