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Read More »Activision eyeing Take-Two swoop?
An eventful week for Activision rolls on: rumours are circulating at the highest level that the company is eyeing a shock acquisition of rival Take-Two. If true, and if successful, the bid would bring blockbuster brands and hit studios under one roof – Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, …
Read More »Take-Two wins Metacritic publisher report
Reviews aggregation site Metacritic has named Take-Two as the most critically successful publisher of 2010. The company emerged with a review score average of 77.1 per cent, thanks mainly to the strong reception given to Red Dead Redemption (95 per cent) and Sid Meier’s Civilization V (90 per cent). The …
Read More »Profits up at Take-Two after solid Q3
Take-Two has posted better than expected results for the fiscal quarter ending December 31st 2010, with net profit up seven per cent year-on-year to $40.8m. Net revenue for the period was down seven per cent at $334.3m – though this is ahead of the $300m prediction. Year-to-date revenue stands at …
Read More »The Darkness II announced
2K Games has announced it will release the follow-up to The Darkness later this year. The Darkness II is currently in production for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and is due to arrive this Autumn. It follows on from the million unit-selling 2007 title, which is based on a supernatural …
Read More »LA Noire gets May 20th release
Rockstar’s long-awaited LA Noire looks likely to hit global retail on May 17th, if details from a leaked online trailer for the game are correct. Eurogamer reports that the animated short was live on YouTube. The link now leads to a message that reads: "The video is no longer available …
Read More »Ben Feder steps down from Take-Two
Just minutes after MCV reported the high-profile departure of Keiji Inafune from Capcom, it has been revealed that Take-Two CEO Ben Feder will step down from his role at the publisher on January 1st 2011. Current executive chairman Strauss Zelnick will assume the additional role of CEO upon his departure. …
Read More »Take-Two posts $6m profit
Take-Two has announced net revenues of $354m for its third fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2010 – up from last year’s $95m. The parent company of Rockstar and 2K Games cited strong sales of Wild West shooter Red Dead Redemption for the jump in revenue. The game has sold 6.9m …
Read More »Revenue spike for Take-Two
BioShock 2 sales drives the publisher's intake up 54% year-on-year
Read More »Better than expected sales for Take-Two
Key game releases have helped Take-Two revenues jump 54 per cent year on year for its second quarter – a better than expected result for the publisher. The firm said today that net revenue for the second fiscal quarter ending April 30th was $268.0 million, an increase of over the …
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