Much like the Call of Duty franchise, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto has managed to sell quite a bit of copies ever since the market recovered from the initial shock of Grant Theft Auto 3 (its awesomeness, that is). Currently, Grant Theft Auto IV is the the latest version of the game and has a few different DLC packs including The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost & Damned.
While the game has been out for quite some time, we haven’t heard much in terms of recent sales numbers. Luckily, Take-Two has just come forth to speak of the matter saying that the title as at nearly 20 million sales. Additionally, it’s also been made known that collectively to date over 100 million its of the GTA series have been sold. That’s no laughing matter.
Now, Take-Two, let’s hear a little bit about Grand Theft Auto 5. Please?
There are several different big name publishers in the video game industry with players like EA and Activision coming to mind. However, Take-Two has been moving along quite nicely with their share of games including the behemoth Grand Theft Auto.
Recent reports suggest that Take-Two’s success has caught the eye of Activision. In fact, these reports suggest that Activision is actually going to make a push to fully acquire Take-Two. If this were the case, Activision would be looking to get their hands on highly valuable titles like Red Dead Redemption and the above mentioned Grand Theft Auto.
Of course, this has far from been confirmed so we’ll have to keep you posted with further developments.
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There are a few different basketball games on the market with EA’s NBA Live (now NBA Elite) and Take-Two’s NBA 2K leading the pack. However, over the years, neither games have managed to secure Michael Jordan who has become virtually synonymous with the game of basketball. Luckily, 2K Sports managed to pick up Jordan for their latest basketball title NBA 2K11.
This inclusion of Jordan along with NBA Elite 11 failing to ship has helped NBA 2K11 excel. In fact, the game has excelled so much that is has become the best selling title in the history of 2K Sports.
Below, are the words of Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick:
“NBA 2K11 has now sold in nearly 4 million units since launching in early October and has become the best-selling title in the history of both our basketball franchise and 2K Sports.”
It will be interesting to see if the franchise maintains this momentum going into NBA 2K12 now that the hype surrounding Jordan has died down and EA Sports is sure to have a basketball title on the market.
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After fighting for a long time with domain squatters over the bioshock.com domain, Take-Two has lost a judgment from WIPO, which rules on domains and trademarks online. Apparently, the domain was registered well before BioShock came out, and well before Take-Two filed for trademark for “BioShock”. Heck, why didn’t Take-Tow just purchase the domain from the owners in the first place?
It looks like 2K’s Mafia II is getting yet another delay. Previously scheduled for a release sometime before July, Take-Two has just announced that it is now scheduled for a Q4 fiscal release. The reason stated for this delay is quality control and further development. And, while this come as a discouragement to gamers anxiously awaiting its release, once the game actually comes out, those who waited will be rewarded with a much more polished game.
Anyways, we’ll keep you updated regarding the release date of Mafia II.
It was just made known that NHL 2K11 will be taking a year off on the PS3 and Xbox 360 so that Take-Two can “become a stronger competitor in the category”. Instead, they will be relased NHL 2K11 only for the Wii.
This will leave the studio time to focus entirely on developing feasible hockey controls using the Wiimote.
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Borderlands already has The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot and The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC packs but already 2K’s CEO, Ben Feder, is talking about future expansions. In fact, Feder said that Gearbox “will continue to support the title with add-on content”.
That’s the extent of the details we have regarding the new DLC but GDC will most likely bring more info.
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While BioShock 2 hasn’t received the same critical acclaim that the first title did, it has still received some pretty damn good reviews. And reviewers apparently aren’t the only ones who like the game as it was just announced that BioShock 2 has sold 3 million copies across the Xbox 360 PC and PS3.
That’s not all though, Take-Two also took the time to let us know that Grand Theft Auto IV has sold 15 million copies worldwide since its release.
Some pretty big numbers here now I just wonder how much their sequels will sell.
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According to rumors at MCV, developer/publisher Take-Two will cut around 20% of its global workforce, which could amount to over 400 positions (out of Take-Two’s 2,000). The cuts will reportedly be made both across developing and publishing sectors. Take Two has yet to comment on the rumors.
If you haven’t heard about Carl Icahn, well you should, or maybe you’re not into Wall Street that much. He’s known as an activist investor, meaning he buys up lots of shares in a company and then shakes things up. Like in Blockbuster. And Yahoo. And now, Take-Two. Icahn has acquired an 11% stake in the GTA publisher, and Wall Street is already waiting for a shareholder revolt in the company.
Despite the success of GTA 4, Take-Two stock is only worth half of what it was two years ago, and since Icahn acquired the 11%, the Take-Two share has risen almost 10%. Expect some turmoil at Take-Two in the next few months.
