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Grand Theft Auto IV recently received the second piece of downloadable content, The Ballad of Gay Tony, and all the content for the game launched on Xbox Live is now available on a disk in the form of Episodes from Liberty City. And with the manual for the latest release suggesting the Liberty City will not be gettin... |
19 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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With Borderlands, the so-called role playing shooter created by Gearbox, now out and performing well in the charts, the next big release for publisher Take Two is BioShock 2, the first person shooter that is being developed by 2K Marin and is a follow up to the award-winning adventure which surprised everyone when it... |
18 November 2009
07:49 GMT |
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The NPD Group data for the month of October, released last week, were anything but good. Overall, the videogaming industry has shrunk by about 19% over the same period during 2008, with price cuts failing to drive up sales volume for the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, and with customers buying less... |
18 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Take Two Interactive and Rockstar Games have announced a competition designed to promote Beaterator, the latest game created by the studio that is also responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise. The new Band Challenge will allow bands to win 5,000 USD if they use the new PlayStation Portable-based music creation... |
7 October 2009
14:21 GMT |
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This week has been oddly dominated by news related to Take Two and its biggest franchise, Grand Theft Auto. The company released its financial results for the third quarter of the financial year and things are not looking good, with losses of about 55.5 million dollars and with Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2 and Max... |
5 September 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the publisher has just announced a loss of 55.5 million dollars, industry analysts are rather positive on the outlook of Take Two, the company which publishes the highly popular series created by Rockstar. The belief is that the company will not lose money this year and that it will have a stell... |
4 September 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Take Two is getting ready to release the second episode of content for Grand Theft Auto IV. The Ballad of Gay Tony, as it is called, will be released via Xbox Live, as was previous DLC The Lost & Damned, but will also be published on a disc.Take Two, which is handling publishing duties on the title, is saying that th... |
3 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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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 |
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Take Two seemed to be one of the powerhouses of videogaming during this holiday season. Rockstar was slated to put out Red Dead Redemption, Mafia II was widely seen as the definitive period gangster piece and BioShock 2 was set to give gamers more of the very popular Rapture.And let's not forget that Max Payne 3... |
2 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Take Two, best known for putting out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series of games, has published its results for the third quarter of the fiscal year and reported a 55 million USD loss, mostly because it lacked a blockbuster release.The biggest games the company has put out have been The BIGS 2, which was release... |
2 September 2009
03:39 GMT |
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The BioShock movie project seems to be having a rough time lately. Variety is reporting that Gore Verbinski, who has helmed the Pirates of the Caribbean and who has a deep love for videogames, is no longer in charge of directing the movie based on the 2K title. Apparently, his replacement is Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, ... |
25 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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2K Sports has announced that it plans to release a new download-only game called NBA2K10: Draft Combine at some point in September, allowing gamers to customize a player and put them through the paces of the NBA draft, as they await the official launch of the fresh 2K-created basketball game.Draft Combine is set to a... |
30 July 2009
03:48 GMT |
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We've seen quite a lot of news reports about Take Two recently, largely due to the fact that the company has postponed one of its biggest releases of this year, BioShock 2, into 2010, when other high-quality titles like Mafia II or Red Dead Redemption will also be making an appearance. This led to quite a lot o... |
17 July 2009
03:48 GMT |
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BioShock 2 has spent quite a lot of time in the media spotlight these days, as its publisher, Take Two, has announced that it won't be available this fall, due to the fact that the teams at 2K Marin, which is designing the single player game, and at Digital Extremes, which is handling the multiplayer side, need ... |
17 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a lot of success with its Madden NFL franchise. The game sold very well every year since it was released and its launch date is a cause for celebration and queues every year for gamers. Sony, one of the big three console manufacturers, is rumored to even be using this year's date as an oc... |
16 July 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Yesterday, fans of the BioShock franchise were quite sad to learn that the upcoming BioShock 2 title would be delayed and that they wouldn't be able to explore the underwater city of Rapture one more time until the beginning of 2010. But this is great news, at least for Take Two, according to Electronic Enterta... |
15 July 2009
13:11 GMT |
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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 |
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Grand Theft Auto IV was one of the biggest videogame releases of 2008, managing to boost the overall value of the industry while also making sure that the year was very profitable for Take Two and Rockstar.A part of the same success will be replicated in 2009 as the companies will profit from the release of two downl... |
6 July 2009
05:24 GMT |
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NBA 2K10 has already been announced and detailed by Take Two and its shaping up to be another good game in the series that debuted ten years ago and has given the NBA games from EA Sports a run for their money. And 2K Sports could not let this occasion pass by without releasing a special edition of the game to celebr... |
2 July 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Take Two is one of the videogame publishers to have often been involved in issues related to videogame classification that touches on what's acceptable and what's not in game releases. Rockstar was attacked when a mod allowed players to access risqué material in the Grand Theft Auto series, and Manhu... |
26 June 2009
03:17 GMT |
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2K Sports has always held the second place in the sports games race, which has been dominated by EA Sports. So, it needs to offer some pretty good and innovative concepts in order to gain ground on the dominating force of the market.One such innovative idea has just been announced, as the company is saying that NBA 2... |
25 June 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The saga of Duke Nukem Forever, which Apogee, aka 3D Realms, has been developing for the better part of 12 years, is apparently not at an end. We thought it would end when the studio announced that it was laying off most of its staff. Later, we thought it ended when Take Two sued Apogee for the money that went into t... |
23 June 2009
05:19 GMT |
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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 |
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Take Two has been quite busy these days as, just before the E3 trade show, the publisher revealing its results for the last quarter and talking about the videogames that it plans to release in the coming months. One of the most interesting announcements was the fact that NBA 2K10 would be coming to the Nintendo Wii h... |
28 May 2009
07:29 GMT |
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As it was announcing less than stellar financial results for the last quarter, Take Two also let out some pieces of news related to the videogames that it planned to release in the near future.The big news is that Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II are set to be delayed, in order to allow development studios 2K Czech a... |
27 May 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Can you compare 2008 with 2009? When it comes to financial reports coming from big videogames companies, you need to, although the comparison might be a bit unfair.After all, in the same period of last year, Take Two handled the publishing duties for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, a blockbuster that managed to ... |
27 May 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Duke Nukem is one of the most famous video game characters of all time thanks to his no-nonsense attitude and his overall rock star persona. But another thing he is famous for is the fact that every game that features him is inevitably delayed time and time again. Duke Nukem Forever was the latest example in this re... |
26 May 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Duke Nukem has been the subject of a lot of news reports recently, as one of the most highly anticipated games to feature the famous character, Duke Nukem Forever, has been placed on permanent hiatus as the developer that was in charge with creating it, 3D Realms, closed down. Now though, it seems that Take Two, the... |
15 May 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Duke Nukem is one of the video game industry's most respected and popular characters thanks to his whole rockstar persona and how he usually disposes of huge monsters, most of the time much bigger than him. But he is also known for the fact that the video games in which he stars get delayed over and over again a... |
11 May 2009
03:15 GMT |
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The gaming industry hasn't escaped the worldwide recession and a lot of big corporations have been forced to make drastic staff reductions and other cost-cutting measures in order to ensure that a marginal profit or even smaller losses are recorded this year. But, even though big companies like Sony or EA can h... |
7 May 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Rather than being busy with providing information related to its videogame releases, publisher Take Two is filling the news space with information related to the law suits that it has managed to settle during the recent few days.Today, the company announced that an agreement was reached with a group of share holders ... |
7 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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When Take Two and Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 and for the PlayStation 3 in May 2008, PC players complained that they didn't get a version of the game.The open world adventure managed to sell very well and made it to a lot of Game of the Year lists in 2008, and towards the end of the ye... |
23 March 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Can the Grand Theft Auto franchise do anything wrong? It seems not. Grand Theft Auto IV was one of the best sold videogames of 2008, also taking home quite a few awards at the ceremonies held at the end of the year.Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, the first downloadable content pack for the game, which was laun... |
18 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV was undoubtedly one of the most important and successful titles of the last year. Being the first next-generation iteration in the very popular GTA series, the game blew away reviewers, who graced it with near, if not perfect grades. The critical success translated into huge sales for the release... |
13 March 2009
12:11 GMT |
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Take Two has released its financial results for the quarter that ended on January 31. The company says that it has seen an increase of 7% when it comes to year over year revenues, to 256 million dollars, but that did not help when it comes to losses, as they also increased by 32%, going up to 50.4 million dollars. Th... |
11 March 2009
17:11 GMT |
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Take Two has lashed out again at the concept of a second hand market, saying that it has a negative impact on the sales of new titles. GameStop, the biggest brick and mortar chain of shops which buys and then re-sells videogames, has been singled out by the publisher. Doug Creutz, who is an analyst of the videogame m... |
3 February 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Take Two announces that some of the titles released in 2008 under its 2K Games brand will have their prices reduced for a promotion period, which goes on until the end of the month.Until January 31, anyone can go to a special section of the official site of 2K Games and then print the coupon that can be found there. ... |
7 January 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Almost all of the domains of entertainment have a few figures that stand out, some for the best of reasons, but others for some very bad rationales, or thanks to their weird behavior. Such is the case with Jack Thompson, the now disbarred lawyer who went on a rampage against the Grand Theft Auto franchise, because he... |
6 January 2009
09:01 GMT |
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2008 was a year filled with quite a lot of transactions, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions in the whole entertainment industry. The gaming segment didn't escape this trend, and we've seen some very interesting moves on the market, as Tecmo merged with Koei, and Warner bought even more shares in Tomb Raide... |
5 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Take Two is facing a tough 2009. As they released their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008, which showed an increasing loss over the same period of 2007, chairman of the board Strauss Zelnick sought to emphasize the power of DLC as a revenue source in 2009, saying that Grand Theft Auto IV would receive ... |
23 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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Things are starting to look good for Take Two, as the game publisher has just announced that it has extended its partnership with Rockstar until 2012, and thus proves the analysts that have deemed the departure of the Grand Theft Auto developer from the company very wrong. After an uncertain 2008, filled with rumors ... |
19 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Rockstar is certainly one of the most popular game developers out there, being responsible for the extremely successful Grand Theft Auto series, and other various IPs (Intellectual Properties) like the Midnight Club racing game. The company has had a long-term partnership with Take Two, in order to publish their game... |
19 December 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Following a financial report which showed a disappointing fourth quarter loss, double that incurred in 2007, and a overall yearly profit of 97 million dollars, mostly derived from sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, Take Two is looking at 2009 as a difficult year, mainly because Rockstar's franchise will only see the ... |
18 December 2008
18:31 GMT |
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Take Two has revealed its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 and the results are all but good. The company that published such hits as Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar, has seen revenue from videogames sales increase, while the losses it has incurred reached 15 million dollars, which is double... |
18 December 2008
04:56 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is probably one of the most popular series of sandbox shooters out there, winning over quite a big number of fans through its intricate story and complex gameplay. The latest installment in the series, Grand Theft Auto IV, took the franchise to a whole new level in terms of realism, and... |
18 December 2008
03:15 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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Tropico and Tropico 2 have been two of the most interesting and quirky management games that I've played. Where Sim City, in all of its installments, tried to maintain a degree of seriousness, with financial reports and advisers talking about city development, the Tropico series built its experience around the i... |
17 November 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular open world sandbox games out there, having a huge number of fans. This is largely due to the excellent gameplay, which, combined with the amusing story, offers players a great experience that they won't forget for quite some time.Recently, Rockstar, the developer behin... |
17 November 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Take Two is one of the most popular game publishers out there, releasing hit titles such as Grand Theft Auto IV or Bioshock. But popularity doesn't always pay off, because the company has recently seen stock prices fall on account of the recent recession, which, although it seems to be more gentle with the gamin... |
14 November 2008
15:31 GMT |
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