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Strauss Zelnick hopes effective development spending and marketing will see publisher through next-gen transition
Read More »Take-Two wants to be "the most efficient company in the business"
Increased costs and diminishing returns – for many that was the story of this generation. And it’s not something that Take-Two wants to repeat. Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has told investors that he wants his publisher to be the most efficient in the business as the industry prepares to …
Read More »Take-Two reduces losses; Max Payne ships 4m; BioShock ships 3.7m
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two has reported a drop in losses for the year ending March 2013. Total net losses for the period reached $31.2m, significantly down on last year’s $107.7m loss. Revenues climbed from $825.8m in 2012 to $1.21bn. For the fourth quarter revenues doubled from $148.1m to $300m. …
Read More »Re-jigged XCOM FPS nearing second reveal?
Having vanished off the face of the earth last week, Take-Two’s XCOM FPS could be on the verge of a return. CVG reckons that a viral video seemingly based on the recent Russian meteor sighting contains the term ‘whathappenedin62′ in its source code. MCV readers will know that Take-Two recently …
Read More »Gearbox teases new Borderlands 2 DLC
Gearbox has revealed a new Borderlands 2 character is on its way in an upcoming DLC pack. During a SXSW panel, the developer showed off a teaser showing a silhouetted figure with devastating power. "Deep beneath Pandora, an experiment has escaped,” the teaser read. "Bandits beware, a new vault hunter …
Read More »Take-Two eyes mobile push, has extensive pipeline of unannounced games
Take-Two will look to bring its core gaming franchises to smartphones and tablets; claiming it has a long line of unannounced games as well. Speaking at the Wedbush Transformational Technologies Management Access Conference, COO Karl Slatoff touched on the publisher’s mobile strategy going forward. "As long as technology continues to …
Read More »Take-Two acquires WWE license from defunct THQ
The WWE video game series will live on following an acquisition from Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two. Polygon reports that Take-Two has reached a joint agreement with the WWE, now defunct publisher THQ and Japanese developer Yuke’s, which is the long-term home of the series. As part of the deal …
Read More »Next-gen dev budgets unlikely to change, says Zelnick
'We don't expect to see a meaningful change in what it costs us to release our products'
Read More »The collapse of THQ: The full story
Was THQ’s demise the result of bad management, bad circumstances or just plain bad luck? The company that had generated millions from games based on Finding Nemo and WWE, had struggled to transition into a world where kids games and licenced titles were no-longer safe bets. Certain analysts and industry …
Read More »GTA: Vice City hits PSN this week
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will be the latest addition to the PS2 Classics collection, with Rockstar announcing its arrival on the Playstation Network this week. The digital offering will land in North America on January 29th for $9.99, and in Europe the following day on January 30th for 7.99. …
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