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Take-Two has beaten its revenue and profit expectations and raised its full year projections, despite a thin release slate. The firm generated $486.8 million during its third quarter, a sizeable drop compared with the $954 million the firm made the year before. However, the previous year was bolstered by the …
Read More »GTA producer and studio head Leslie Benzies leaves Rockstar
Development vet led series from 2001’s GTA III up to GTA V
Read More »Does Take-Two even need another Grand Theft Auto?
If you work in games retail, it will be hard to forget September 2013. Grand Theft Auto V launched to phenomenal critical acclaim, resulting in snaking queues outside stores and a level of commercial success that no other boxed game has attained before or since. A few weeks after the …
Read More »Take-Two: ‘GTA Online success won’t change our strategy’
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the publisher will continue to launch multiple triple-A boxed games a year, despite the rapid growth of its digital business. For its second financial quarter, Take-Two revealed that 39 per cent of its revenue comes from digital content – primarily driven by Grand Theft Auto …
Read More »Rockstar says BBC’s GTA drama was ‘random, made up b****cks’
Last night saw the long-awaited airing of the BBC’s controversial dramatization of Rockstar’s creation of Grand Theft Auto, The Gamechangers. At least, that is what we thought it would be about. In reality the 90-minute show didn’t seem to tell any particular story. The events depicted the period between the …
Read More »Rockstar calls time for GTA Online on Xbox 360 and PS3, halts further updates
Nearly two years after Grand Theft Auto V’s online multiplayer was launched, the service appears to be reaching its end-of-life on the older generation of consoles. In an announcement of major changes coming to Grand Theft Auto Online on PS4, Xbox One and PC on September 15th, Rockstar said that …
Read More »VIDEO: The first footage of Daniel Radcliffe in BBC’s GTA drama Gamechangers
The BBC has released the first trailer for its upcoming drama based on the development of Grand Theft Auto. In it we see Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Rockstar president Sam Houser, and Bill Paxton, who plays controversial lawyer and outspoken GTA critic Jack Thompson. The show itself …
Read More »BBC airing Daniel Radcliffe GTA drama on September 15th
Gamechangers to be shown on BBC Two, despite no word of a settlement to Rockstar lawsuit
Read More »Rockstar issues lawsuit against BBC over ‘Game Changer’ drama
The BBC’s upcoming drama about the creation of Grand Theft Auto has landed in hot water with the series’ creator, Rockstar. Announced earlier this year, Game Changer (working title) was outlined as a standalone 90-minute feature dramatising the conflict between Rockstar president Sam Houser and outspoken GTA critic Jack Thompson, …
Read More »Rockstar suing BBC over GTA drama
UK studio “attempted multiple times” to resolve trademark issues with BBC
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