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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
14:41 GMT |
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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
17:31 GMT |
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Important personnel cuts have been announced at Firaxis Studio, the development team headed by Sid Meier, which is behind the Civilization turn based strategy franchise. 20 developers, who account for about 15 percent of the overall employees at the studio, have been laid off, with the parent company, Take Two Intera... |
9 July 2010
03:38 GMT |
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2K Sports has revealed the official cover for the upcoming NBA 2K11, featuring a highly stylized image of Michael Jordan, the best player of the sport in the world and a recent inductee into the Hall of Fame of the NBA. The cover images for the NBA 2K series usually feature realistic shots of current athletes but the... |
8 July 2010
08:20 GMT |
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We already know that Red Dead Redemption is the best sold videogame for the month of May in the United States, with the figures from the NPD Group showing that the Western-themed open world shooter managed to sell more than 1 million units on the Xbox 360 and on the PlayStation 3.Now, a set of figures offered by the ... |
6 July 2010
08:06 GMT |
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With Red Dead Redemption being one of the best reviewed and best sold videogames of the year Take Two could shed its image of a publisher which is only successful when the next iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise is launched. And it seems that the company is interested in expanding its offer even more wit... |
28 June 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Take Two Interactive might have hit gold with the spring release of Red Dead Redemption, the open world Western-themed videogame developed by Rockstar, which moved quite a few copies since launch date, but it seems that another big title has again been delayed, with Max Payne 3 confirmed as not coming in before Octob... |
9 June 2010
16:41 GMT |
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One of the big launches before the long summer gaming gap is Red Dead Redemption, the Western themed shooter coming from Rockstar, the development studio which is best known for publishing the highly successful Grand Theft Auto series. The game is now out on the United States market, with the launch date for Europe s... |
19 May 2010
04:12 GMT |
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Take Two recently announced that a new game called XCOM but based on the old X-Com franchise, is in development at 2L Marin, the same studio that also created this year's BioShock 2. This means previous speculation, which linked the XCOM videogame with the Irrational Games team, was wrong and players still do no... |
20 April 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Gran Theft Auto IV was a huge launch and the franchise itself is one of the biggest in videogame history. But publisher Take Two is still struggling to be profitable year over year, being described by most as a one-horse company, which needs to pump out GTA related products to make money. 2010 is the year when all th... |
15 April 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto is by all means one of the most successful franchises in the history of videogaming. Estimates say that it has sold about 120 million units since it was initially launched and there is intense speculation about what Rockstar, the developer, plans to do for GTA V.But the one blemish on its reputation ... |
14 April 2010
03:02 GMT |
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Take Two has managed to offer analysts and financial markets better than expected results, showing sales going up by a little over 9% year over year for the quarter of the fiscal year, which ended on January 31, reaching 163.2 million dollars. The publisher also managed to reduce its losses by more than a third, to 3... |
4 March 2010
14:11 GMT |
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Take Two seems unable to keep a steady release date for some of its titles and Mafia II might take over from Splinter Cell: Conviction the title of “Most Likely To Never Be Released.” The publishers announced that despite earlier reports both Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II would not make it to gamers on... |
4 March 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Take Two, the company best known for publishing series such as Grand Theft Auto and BioShock, has vehemently denied that it has laid off any people that are working directly at the studio level to create new videogames. The company is saying that reports in various media outlets are erroneous and that the only staff ... |
5 February 2010
02:59 GMT |
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Getting games and game-related items banned seems to be a popular past time for some. As a rather controversial title with plenty of eyebrow-raising topics, Grand Theft 4 wasn't spared the "ban attention." But it seems that at least the interdiction the game received has been lifted. In 2008, several GTA4 ads we... |
11 January 2010
05:15 GMT |
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2K Sports has announced that it will be giving gamers a chance to actually go up against the best basketball players in the country through the NBA 2K10 All-Star Challenge Presented by Nike Basketball, which is set to take place in January and February 2010.Those who are interested in taking part in it will need to o... |
29 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Take Two is one of the videogame publishers that have had a tough year in 2009, postponing the releases of several high profile titles and announcing an increasing loss over 2008. And it seems that next year, which does not feature the release of a new installment in the wildly popular Gran Theft Auto series, might a... |
29 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Take Two is seen by a lot of people as being a one-trick pony, a company that can only make a profit when a main game in the Grand Theft Auto series is released. This year, it is saying that other titles, chiefly amongst them Borderlands (which has shipped 2 million worldwide), have also brought in a lot of revenue, ... |
22 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
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A Securities and Exchange Commission filling has shown that investor Carl Icahn has bought up shares of the publisher Take Two, pushing his stake in the company to just over 11%. He now owns no less than 9 million shares, which are estimated to be worth a little over 70 million dollars.The SEC document also shows tha... |
21 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Publisher Take Two has announced that it has lost 22 million dollars during the last quarter of the year and that its losses for the whole of 2009 have reached 137.9 million, which is significantly more than in 2008. Overall revenue for Take Two stood at 968.5 million dollars, which is more than one third less than i... |
21 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Take Two surprised some videogame analysts by saying that it will lose more money than expected during the current fiscal year. The company is stating that it will be getting less revenue, down to about 950 million dollars, with losses of 1.10 to 1.15 for each share. The outlook for 2010 is also a bit gloomy, as the ... |
8 December 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Take Two announced last week that it would have a bad 2009 and that the prospects for 2010 were not looking much better. The company said that Max Payne 3 was once again delayed for a few months and projected a fall in sales related to poor performance from the MLB franchise, which is not having a good year. Immediat... |
7 December 2009
04:19 GMT |
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2K Boston has been suspected of developing a new X-Com since 2007, when it launched BioShock. In March, further evidence was brought in the form of additional rumors when Ken Levine, the studio's creative chief, said that he was “probably the world's biggest X-Com [fan].” In more recent developm... |
26 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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2K Sports and Take Two have announced that Evan Longoria, the Tampa Bay Rays player who is the Gold Glove for 2009 and was also awarded the Silver Slugger Award, is set to be both the face and the main spokesperson for Major League Baseball 2K10, which is set to arrive on store shelves in spring 2010. The compan... |
25 November 2009
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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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