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Video game publisher Take Two has announced it managed to get revenue of 236.3 million dollars (179.8 million Euro) during the fiscal quarter which ended on December 31 of last year, down when compared to the same period of 2010 by about one third.
A similar decline was seen when it comes to sales for the last nine ... |
3 February 2012
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The developers at Firaxis have released three new screenshots for their newly announced XCOM: Enemy Unknown strategy game, showing off the tactical aspect of the game and a first look at how the player base might look.The view for the tactical turn based battles seems to be very old school, almost isometric, although... |
13 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The big subjects for all Grand Theft Auto fans might be the possible features and launch date for the fifth full game in the series at the moment but the developers of the franchise working at Rockstar are eager to teach them more about its roots.As part of a larger feature which celebrates ten years since the launch... |
19 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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The developers at Gearbox working on Borderlands 2 are interested in keeping the core mechanics of the franchise relevant while making sure that players have access to more content than in the original video game.Scott Kester, who is a the concept designer working on Borderlands at Gearbox, told the 2K TV show that, ... |
9 December 2011
22:41 GMT |
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2K Sports, the simulation oriented division of Take Two, has announced that it plans to launch a number of NBA Christmas Day simulations for NBA 2K12, along with delivering a discount for the holidays, in order to celebrate the re-launch of the real world basketball season.Amazon also offers a price cut for the game,... |
9 December 2011
07:22 GMT |
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The fact that the NBA season is finally ready to start, after a deal between the players and the owners of the team, comes as great news to the developer and publisher of NBA 2K12, a game that will probably get a solid boost in sales when the basketball games finally start to take place all over America.The game was ... |
7 December 2011
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The leading executives of one of the biggest publishers in the world of video games has said that the social games market is complicated and that the best proof is the limited performance metrics offered by Zynga, the biggest player in the field.Strauss Zelnick, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Take Two, stated,... |
1 December 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Take Two, the publisher that is in charge of franchises such Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has announced that it has seen revenue go down during the second fiscal quarter of the year, which ended on September 30, and also saw an increase in losses.Sales for the company came in at 107 million dollars (77.5... |
9 November 2011
10:32 GMT |
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2K Sports, the simulation-oriented division of Take Two, has announced that it plans to close down the multiplayer servers for its basketball game NBA 2K11, just over one year after the official launch date.
When the 2009 version of the game was launched, multiplayer support was offered for more than two years after... |
4 November 2011
03:54 GMT |
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One of the leaders of Rockstar has said that in the coming years the company is focusing on creating new “things”, which presumably means that there will be less releases for series like Red Dead , L.A. Noir and Max Payne.Dan Houser, who is the creative leader of Rockstar, has told Dengeki, a Japanese mag... |
27 October 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A number of documents that were filed with the Securities and Investment Commission in Australia show that Team Bondi, the studio which worked on L.A. Noire, is set to fully close down soon, after being placed into administration last month.Now a notification has been issued that an actual liquidator has been filed a... |
6 October 2011
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In a recent analyst note Michael Pachter, who watches the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, has stated that the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter might sell between 8 and 12 million copies.The analyst says that the DICE made game will sell 4 million copies on the PC, which presumably includes both phy... |
4 October 2011
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A new report from the analysis firm Sterne Agee has suggested that, when released, Grand Theft Auto V might sell 25 million copies during its first year on the market, breaking previous sales marks set by the franchise.Arvind Bhatia, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Sterne Agee, has said that th... |
1 September 2011
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Grand Theft Auto V has not yet been announced by the developers at Rockstar or by the publisher Take Two but analysts are already thinking about how much the game might sell when it is released and what impact it could have on the parent company.In a note to investors Michael Pachter, who is an analyst working for We... |
11 August 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Video game developer Take Two has posted a set of pretty ambiguous financial results for the first fiscal quarter of the coming year but the company is still looking to a bright future and they are planning to both expand their series on new, emerging platforms and to diversify the range of gaming experience that the... |
9 August 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has announced that it has posted a loss for the first fiscal quarter of the year, which ended on June 30, while overall revenue went down when compared to the same period of last year despite the launch of two big titles, Duke Nukem Forever and L.A. Noire.Net revenue for the quarter came... |
9 August 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has highlighted the overall sales of its Red Dead Redemption title, saying that it has managed to sell more than 11 million units since it was launched during May 2010.The game was created by the Rockstar studio in San Diego and was designed to be a new franchise that Take Two could call... |
9 August 2011
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Take Two has long been rumored to be on the brink of being acquired by a larger company in the video gaming market ever since Electronic Arts tried to make a move on it just as Grand Theft Auto IV was being released, but one executive says that the publisher aims to remain independent, even though there is still inte... |
26 July 2011
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The new XCOM from 2K Marin and Take Two is one of the divisive video game projects of the coming year, with initial reports suggesting that the game was dropping all strategy elements in order to embrace the first-person shooter genre and with recent reports from E3 2011, including my Hands Off, suggesting that the g... |
8 July 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Analysis firm Wedbush Morgan has announced that it sees the recent release of Duke Nukem Forever as having a negative impact on the financial results of its publisher, Take Two Interactive, saying that the game will probably not go above 1.5 million units sold during its lifetime. Initially, the firm projected that ... |
6 July 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Strauss Zelnick, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Take Two Interactive, has said that the price of video games that are created specifically for tablets could be as high as for those experiences that are designed with home consoles in mind, as long as the quality is similar.He stated, “At the end of the da... |
22 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Once upon a time Take Two Interactive was seen as a company that depended greatly on the Grand Theft Auto series for its success and struggled during the years when the franchise lied dormant but a string of releases, from this year's L.A. Noire to last year's Red Dead Redemption, has shown that the publish... |
21 June 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has announced that it has extended the contract agreements it has with key personal from Rockstar Games that are implicated in the development of the Grand Theft Auto franchise and of Western hit Red Dead Redemption and at least one video game analyst believes that this could actually ma... |
26 May 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has announced a set of very good financial results for the fiscal year that was with both revenue and profits increasing significantly over the previous period and now the company is looking to the future and to the projects that will power its rise in the coming year.
NBA 2K11 did very... |
25 May 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has announced that it has extended the long-term employment agreements with key talent at developer Rockstar, including Sam and Dan Houser, the two men who are behind the success of the Grand Theft Auto series.
The publisher has not said exactly when the new agreements are up for renewa... |
25 May 2011
04:21 GMT |
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The National Basketball Association, the association which holds the rights to the top basketball competition in the United States, has announced that it has entered into new multi-year licensing deals with video game publisher Electronic Arts and Take Two Interactive.
The publishers will be able to use players and ... |
24 May 2011
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It seems that a class action suit that was launched against video game publisher Electronic Arts in 2008, over its exclusive rights to create National Football League licensed American football titles, is getting near to an actual trial date, as the company has sent notices to all those who have purchased Madden NFL ... |
7 April 2011
17:31 GMT |
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When someone says that a product is “good,” the manufacturer should take it as a compliment, but the video game world has devalued the word so much that publisher Take Two now expects its video games to be no less than “great.”
Strauss Zelnick, who is the chief executive officer of Take Two... |
10 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Fans looking for more information on the next Grand Theft Auto game have discovered a number of new casting calls for a project called Rush that suggest it is linked with the new game from Rockstar Games.
Rush is being described as being an “interactive project” and the casting company in charge is Tel... |
9 March 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Take Two Interactive has registered five new websites that cannot be linked directly to any of its well-known video game properties and have names that could be associated with the Grand Theft Auto franchise, suggesting that an announcement about the fifth game in the series is being prepared.
The five sites that ... |
1 March 2011
05:36 GMT |
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A few weeks ago rumors from inside the industry suggested that publisher Activision, one of the biggest players in the video-game world, was interested in buying up Take Two in order to gain control of developer Rockstar and its important cash cow Grand Theft Auto.
Arvind Bhatia is an analyst working for Stern Age... |
28 February 2011
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Early this week rumors popped up that Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest players in the video game publishing market, might be interested in launching a takeover of Take Two Interactive, another publisher that has a smaller footprint.
Since the rumors appeared, leaked by a source high up in the industry, some... |
26 February 2011
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Rumors coming from the top level of the business are suggesting that Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest video game publishers in the world, is interested in acquiring Take Two Interactive, the company which handles publishing for the very successful developer Rockstar.
A senior executive has told MCV that, &l... |
14 February 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Gearbox Software, as the developer, and 2K Games, as the publisher, have announced that they will be launching a special Balls of Steel edition for their first-person shooter Duke Nukem Forever, which is set to be launched on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC on May 3 of this year.H... |
14 February 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has put out its latest positive financial results, showing an increase in profit in a year which did not feature a GTA game, and talked about plans for the rest of 2011 and it did all that without officially mentioning anything about the much-awaited Grand Theft Auto V.Take Two only ment... |
11 February 2011
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Publisher Take Two Interactive has announced that it has performed better than expected in 2010, a year when it did not launch a game in its most profitable franchise, GTA, but the company also refused to talk officially about the next game in the series and when it could be launched.
Strauss Zelnick, the man that... |
10 February 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Publisher Take Two Interactive has managed to beat expectations and announced good financial results for the 2010 holiday quarter, with profits reaching 40.8 million dollars for the period, which is about 7 percent more than during the previous period in 2009. Take Two says that revenue actually went down, reaching ... |
10 February 2011
04:36 GMT |
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What we know
L.A. Noire is a brand new project coming from Rockstar's Team Bondi from Australia, and is gearing up to be released this May.
The game uses the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, the same one seen in previous titles like Grand Theft Auto IV or Red Dead Redemption.
As such, it will feature a wi... |
27 January 2011
06:40 GMT |
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2K Sports has announced that it is launching a new MLB 2K11 contest which will award a prize of 1 million United States dollars to that player who throws a perfect game in the upcoming baseball simulation. MLB 2K11 is set to arrive on the PC, the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, the PSP handheld and the Wii, so there ar... |
10 January 2011
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A judge based in the United States has certified the class action anti trust lawsuit that was brought against publisher Electronic Arts because of the way it has used its exclusive licensing rights for the National Football League to inflate prices on its sports simulation series of games.
Vaughn Walker, who is a ... |
28 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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One member of the European Parliament has spoken out against the open world gangster based video game Mafia II, which was developed by 2K Czech and published by Take Two, because of the way it appears to glamorize the criminal actions of the organization. Sonia Alfano, who is a member of the European Parliament, has... |
21 December 2010
05:29 GMT |
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A schedule showing the launch dates for the most important video games publisher Take Two is set to launch in the coming months suggests that Max Payne 3, the long-awaited sequel to the third -person shooter series, might be launched in 2011 or early in 2012. Take Two has been talking about its financial results, sh... |
20 December 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Video game publisher Take Two has stated that it has performed above expectations for the period which ended on October 31 and that it is looking forward to 2011 and to developing new gaming experiences for the Nintendo 3DS handheld and the motion tracking systems which Sony and Microsoft have recently released.The c... |
20 December 2010
05:03 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry has predicted that Gran Theft Auto V from developer Rockstar and publisher Take Two will likely arrive during the 2012 fiscal year, which is set to run from April 2012 until the end of March 2013.Mike Hickey, who works with Janco Partners, has issues an analyst note which t... |
25 November 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Publisher and console creator Nintendo has dominated video games sales in its native market of Japan, managing to move no less than 12.9 million copies of its titles so far this year, according to a report compiled by a Japanese gaming blog called Oolong Tea with data from the weekly Media Create charts.Second spot i... |
12 November 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Publisher Take Two has announced that it has made a profit of 12.4 million dollars during the third fiscal quarter of their financial year, the second one in a row, showing that the publisher can perform very well even during a year when it is not launching a title in the well known Grand Theft Auto series.Take Two s... |
6 September 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Analyst Michael Pachter stated that because of the long development cycle, repeated delays and because of mixed reviews in the initial few days the 2K Czech developed and Take Two published Mafia II was set to be a disappointment, selling below the level needed to recoup its costs.But the publisher of the gangster th... |
3 September 2010
13:51 GMT |
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A video game analyst has declared that Mafia II might turn out to be a disappointment for publisher Take Two but that it's upcoming financial report will be positive because of the continuing popularity of the Western open world game Red Dead Redemption.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game ... |
1 September 2010
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2K Games has announced that the recently launched gangster thriller Mafia II will be getting new content on September 7 with players being able to pick up a new downloadable content pack called Jimmy's Vendetta, set to show off another side of the mob story told in the main game.The new content will contain more... |
1 September 2010
04:21 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry has revealed that L.A. Noire has been again delayed and that Rockstar Games appears not to have yet shown the video game to any retailer chains, despite the fact that it was set to come out at some point during the fall.Evan Wilson, who is an analyst working for Pacific Cre... |
31 August 2010
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