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So When Is Take-Two Announcing The Next GTA?
2:40AM Mike Fahey | During yesterday’s Take-Two Interactive third quarter 2009 fiscal report conference call, chairman Strauss Zelnick laid out the company’s non-strategy for announcing the next Grand Theft Auto game. More »
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New BioShock, Max Payne, Red Dead Pegged For First Half Of 2010
7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Publisher Take-Two is going to have a very busy—and likely very profitable—beginning to 2010, with a quartet of top-tier releases all hitting in the first half of next year. That means BioShock 2, Max Payne 3 and more. More »
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Report: Take-Two Boss Is A Reckless Liar
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Juicy stuff! Investor site Market Rap has gone all-out on Strauss Zelnick, boss of Take-Two, accusing him of lying, irresponsible leadership and pocketing extra cash while at the same time overseeing a decline in the company’s share prices. More »
So How Much Did It Cost Take-Two To Fend Off EA’s Advances?
8:00PM Luke Plunkett | Earlier this year, Electronic Arts were mad for Take-Two. Mad. Looked like a takeover was inevitable. Yet we enter 2009 with Take-Two an independent company. How the hell did that happen? More »
Stock Market Says Nothankyou To Take-Two
4:30PM Luke Plunkett | Take-Two’s financial results last quarter weren’t the greatest. Sure, sales were up, but overall, money was down, and in business terms, money is what counts. Which explains why shareholders gave Take-Two a belting today. More »
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Is Take-Two Thinking of Subscription-Based GTA and BioShock?
5:00AM Brian Crecente | During today’s talk at the BMO Capital Market’s conference, Take-Two head honcho Strauss Zelnick seemed very up on the idea of downloadable content, micro-transactions and even… subscriptions. More »
Take-Two Chairman Now Men’s Fitness Coverboy
5:40AM Michael McWhertor | Strauss Zelnick, executive chairman of the board of directors at Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive, is in good shape. Good enough shape to be on the cover of Men’s Fitness magazine, anyway, as his ripped forearms and healthy pecs grace the cover of the November issue. More »
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Take-Two Chairman: Quality Wins Out Over Shovelware
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Never let it be said Take-Two aren’t focused on quality. They don’t have the packed release schedule of companies like EA or Activision, but pound-for-pound, their games are amongst the best-regarded in the business. A strategy chairman Strauss Zelnick is very keen on, telling VentureBeat that quality will always win out over quantity: In periods of high growth, like where we are now, B titles and C titles can do OK. But as soon as you get to the point where the platform penetration has reached its asymptote, then quality reins supreme. We think that if you focus on quality all along, regardless of where the market peak is, you will do better. Explaining, perhaps, why T2’s Wii catalogue isn’t quite as robust as some other publisher’s. E3 perspective: Q&A with Chairman Strauss Zelnick on the future of Take-Two Interactive [VentureBeat] More »
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Take-Two Boss: 2K ‘Out-Rate’ EA Sports
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Speaking at the Piper Jaffray Consumer Conference, the square-Jawed and wonderfully-named Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick let rip on EA Sports, choosing his fight, and his words, super-carefully: When we go head-to-head with ‘Brand X’ we out-rate them significantly…We outsell them when we go head-to-head. It’s sort of an unheralded achievement. This is a tough business. On one hand, he’s right! 2K’s basketball and hockey games are normally top-shelf, and they’ve got baseball to themselves. But the “head-to-head” bit…yeah, it’s dancing around that elephant in the room. 2K don’t have an NFL game in the US. They don’t have a football game in Europe/Asia. That’s like saying my 92 Corolla can take on a Ferrari head-to-head, so long as we’re going off the number of wheels and doors and not, you know. Racing. 2K Sports unheralded against EA Sports, says Zelnick [GI.biz] More »
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