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We Haven’t Seen The Last Of Duke Nukem

1:30PM June 21, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

If you thought Duke Nukem Forever was the last gasp for the ’90s video game icon, well, what the hell were you thinking? Publisher Take-Two certainly isn’t done with Duke, regardless of the reception of his latest game. More »


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Not Every Game Has To Be Great. Good Games Are Just Fine.

4:30PM March 11, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick sums up everything wrong with the “blockbuster” video game industry in a single sentence. Via Gamasutra. More »


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There May Be Other Developers In BioShock’s Future

2:30PM June 9, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

The first BioShock game was developed by Irrational Games. The second? 2K Marin. Don’t be surprised if the next game in the serires goes somewhere else. More »


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BioShock Creator Working On An "Original Title"

10:00PM April 13, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

We still don’t know what BioShock creator Ken Levine is working on, but we know what he’s not working on, and it’s not a new X-Com game. More »


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Activist Investor Picks Up Another Million Shares Of Take-Two

12:30PM February 3, 2010 | Owen Good

Carl Icahn, whose 11 per cent ownership of Take-Two Interactive was by itself enough to restart buyout chatter, has grabbed another one million shares of the publisher according to a securities filing last week. More »


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Investor’s Big Stake In Take-Two Reignites Buyout Chatter

12:30PM December 20, 2009 | Owen Good

The notorious investor Carl Icahn disclosed late this week he owns more than 11 percent of Take-Two’s shares, a stake large enough to restart talk that the publisher faces a buyout. More »


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Grand Theft Auto Doesn’t Need Annual Sequels, Says Take-Two

12:20PM December 4, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Annual iterations to reliable blockbuster games—like Call of Duty—would likely go a long way to improving Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive’s bottom line. But execs for the publisher don’t believe GTA is in need of annual sequels. More »


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Borderlands An “Important, Long-Term Franchise” For Take-Two

9:40AM December 4, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

With developer Gearbox Software calling a Borderlands sequel a “no-brainer” and the title called out as one of the few bright spots on publisher Take-Two Interactive’s earnings sheet, more talk of more Borderlands shouldn’t surprise you. More »


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So When Is Take-Two Announcing The Next GTA?

2:40AM September 3, 2009 | 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 September 2, 2009 | 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 »