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Take Two Doesn't Like GTA V Questions

Once Grand Theft Auto IV was out, a small but vocal minority of fans and industry analysts quickly demanded to know when GTA V would be coming out.Rockstar and Take Two managed to placate them for a while by announcing two DLC episodes, The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, but now that group is growing quick...

3 September 2009
03:55 GMT

BioShock 2 and Mafia II Get Pushed Back into 2010

Bad news for BioShock and Mafia fans, as Take Two, the company that will publish the highly anticipated sequels of the extremely popular franchises, has revealed that they will both be pushed back from their projected release in late 2009 into an early 2010 time frame. BioShock 2 was scheduled to arrive this fall, o...

14 July 2009
16:41 GMT

Take Two Wants Good Financial Results Despite a Non-GTA Year

There are certainly a lot of game publishers out there, but among them only a few stand out in terms of franchises and of how much money they can produce every single year.While behemoths such as Activision or Electronic Arts have the benefit of many yearly series, smaller companies, like Take Two Interactive, only h...

23 June 2009
02:18 GMT

Take Two Is Also Cautiously Optimistic About Sales

Take Two is one of the most popular companies in the gaming industry today, as it has a lot of interesting studios in its portfolio. From 2K Games, the creators of BioShock, to Rockstar, the team behind the very popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, Take Two has quite a lot of cult games under the hood.But all these po...

8 December 2008
07:01 GMT

Take Two Boss Talks About Subscription Based DLC

Take Two is a pretty popular game publisher, holding development studios such as Rockstar or 2K Games under its "umbrella." Owning such studios has helped the company gain access to very successful franchises like Grand Theft Auto IV or Bioshock, not to mention the wide range of sports games from the 2K Sports divisi...

18 November 2008
02:44 GMT

Electronic Arts Enters Agreement with Take Two

Electronic Arts says that it is entering a confidentiality agreement with Take Two today, which is aimed at prohibiting the two companies from revealing any detail regarding the face to face talks that are due to take place in the near future.Take Two is set to present Electronic Arts with guidance information regard...

26 August 2008
03:35 GMT

FTC Approves EA Take Two Takeover

The Federal Trade Commission, which is charged with overseeing all major transactions that might involve a monopoly situation, has announced that it green-lighted a possible takeover of Take Two by Electronic Arts.The FTC says that "it now appears that no additional action by the commission is warranted at this time....

21 August 2008
03:35 GMT

Take Two Boss Talks GTA IV Future and Creativity

Take Two has been, for the better part of 2008, subject to a hostile takeover launched by Electronic Arts, a publisher that seeks to acquire new assets under the leadership of its Chief Executive Officer, John Riccitiello. But Strauss Zelnick, the chairman of the board of Take Two, still says that he would hug his op...

23 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Electronic Arts Still Interested in Take Two

If you woke up today experiencing a slight feeling of déjà-vu, think for a moment of the situation that the managers at Electronic Arts are in as they experience the déjà-vu of their lives just as they are announcing, for the fourth time, that they plan to extend the deadline for a hostile takeover of Take Two, the p...

22 July 2008
16:06 GMT

Will Electronic Arts Get Take Two?

A second deadline has passed as Electronic Arts continues to try and execute a hostile takeover of Take Two. The results of the offer have not yet been made available but there's every reason to believe that Electronic Arts has again failed to acquire the shares it needs to control the company.Meg Maise, a spoke...

19 May 2008
10:12 GMT

Take Two Boss Says There Are No Problems with GTA IV

We reported last week that GTA IV seemed to be suffering from some annoying issues, especially freezes in the opening cinematic, both on Xbox 360 machines and on PlayStation 3 consoles. Then, we broke the news that the technical support people at Rockstar had issued a rather long and complicated 12-step list that was...

9 May 2008
02:34 GMT

Take Two Boss Talks Take-Over and GTA IV

As GTA IV finally launched last week for the Xbox 360 and the PS3, Strauss Zelnick, the chairman of Take Two and the man that stood by his initial decision of not even talking about a takeover until after the April 29 release date, must have felt vindicated. Initial response, by both reviewers and players has been ov...

5 May 2008
06:42 GMT

Electronic Arts Still Interested in Take Two

Last week, two things happened in the now-more-than-a-month-old story of war and betrayal between Take Two and Electronic Arts. The Take Two board has decided to respond negatively to EA's hostile bid proposal and encourage stock holders not to sell, by describing Take Two as having "multiple alternatives" desig...

31 March 2008
03:43 GMT

Take-Two Is Staying in the Business

Remember rumors of Take-Two selling out? Well, of course you do if you like reading the morning... gaming news. As it turns out, that's not gonna happen! How could something like that happen when Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick reckons this is the best time to be in the video games business. More than that, th...

28 November 2007
06:48 GMT

Take-Two Chairman: Manhunt 2 Is 'A Fine Piece of Art'

If you're not already aware that Manhunt 2 has been "temporarily suspended" by Take-Two (owners of controversial developer Rockstar), then by all means, search the web and find out because everyone's said it one too many times. This piece of news today is for those who have already been keeping themselves u...

25 June 2007
06:19 GMT


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