ben feder
News
Rockstar’s Agent “Very, Very Different” From GTA
4:30AM Michael McWhertor | What do we know about Rockstar North’s PlayStation 3 exclusive title Agent? Not much, other than that Rockstar founder Sam Houser believes that Agent, set in the 1970s and full of delicious espionage, will be “the ultimate action game.” More »
News
6:40AM Stephen Totilo | November 3 is the date for BioShock 2 in North America, but Europeans will get a head start. More »
BioShock 2 Dated, Coming First To Europe
6:40AM Stephen Totilo | November 3 is the date for BioShock 2 in North America, but Europeans will get a head start. More » 
Grand Theft Auto For Wii? Take-Two Says…
12:00PM Michael McWhertor | With Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars coming to the Nintendo DS exclusively, does that pave the way for a Wii release? After all, the Wii is the best selling console in North America right now and Take-Two and Rockstar Games don’t shy away from bringing mature content — Manhunt 2 and Bully, for example — to the little white wonder. And Grand Theft Auto IV is making Take-Two big bucks. Sounds like a profitable relationship on par with the perfection of chocolate and peanut butter. More »
News
CEO Ben Feder On Turning Things Around At Take-Two
12:40PM Leigh Alexander | Take-Two CEO Ben Feder is not a gamer, unless you’re talking Carnival Games. He and Board chairman Strauss Zelnick were brought in as turnaround experts during some very low times at Take-Two. The SEC was investigating, the company wasn’t profitable, and many people were wondering if it could weather the storms. Now, it’s a different story — Grand Theft Auto IV and BioShock are some of the highest-rated titles on Metacritic, and Take-Two is the number three publisher in the industry. The turnaround strategy seems to be working.
Big Mergers Back On The Menu Says Take-Two CEO
4:00PM Luke Plunkett | Silly John Riccitiello! Big corporate gaming mergers are a thing of the past, eh? Guy didn’t get the memo. Not only did we get one of the industry’s biggest ever mergers only a few days after he said that, but now we’ve got Take-Two CEO Ben Feder saying more couplings are inevitable: I do believe that consolidation ultimately is inevitable…Video-game development is not getting any cheaper. It’s a capital-intensive business, and I don’t see that going away. That will drive some of the smaller competitors out. Sure will! Then the new big, mean companies can go stale, break up and we can kick the cycle off all over again! Can’t think of a more entertaining way to lose a few billion investment dollars, can you? Consolidation inevitable, says Take-Two CEO [GI.biz] More »
