Tag Archives: Take Two

It looks like the success of titles like NBA 2K and Grand Theft Auto V has resulted in some core business changes over at Take-Two Interactive. During the publisher's most recent earnings call, its CEO confirmed plans to bring micro-transactions to all games going forward. This may not arrive in …

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a game that came out a long time ago. In fact, it has been 15 years since we first got to take on the role of Tommy Vercetti. So with that in mind, you can imagine everyone’s shock to learn that the Psychic Readers …

Last week, Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two, began sending out Cease and Desist letters to various Grand Theft Auto V modding groups. The first tool to go down was OpenIV, which was unfortunately key to many single-player mods in GTA IV and GTA V. While this is a great loss for …

Following on from this morning's news that Take-Two had shut down OpenIV, Steam users have taken it upon themselves to voice their concerns directly, tanking Grand Theft Auto V's store rating with a flood of negative reviews. OpenIV was an essential tool that unlocked the files of GTA V, GTA …

It looks like Take-Two and Rockstar are still keeping a close eye on the GTA V modding community as this week, the devs behind the widely used OpenIV mod tool received a cease and desist letter. Since Grand Theft Auto V's launch, Take-Two has been making a habit of policing …

Kerbal Space Program developers, Squad have made headlines recently, from large change-ups in its team to several of the former-Squad developers being hired by Valve for a currently unannounced title. The most recent change comes from Rockstar and 2K’s parent company, Take-Two, purchasing the publishing rights to Kerbal Space Program. …

More than two years on since actress Lindsay Lohan began legal action against GTA V publisher, Take-Two, for what she claimed was an unlicensed use of her image for some of the game's art and one of the in-game characters too, the courts have thrown it out. Lohan's suit began …

It looks like fans of the Red Dead series may have a new game to look forward to as Red Dead Redemption 2's map has leaked onto the web. There has been some murmurs about a new Red Dead game in recent months but reports this week claim that the new …

Former head of Rockstar North, Leslie Benzies, is suing the developer for $150 million. The lawsuit claims that Take-Two, Rockstar and the Houser brothers engaged in “numerous deceptions”, with Benzies claiming that the official reason Rockstar gave for him leaving the Grand Theft Auto studio was a lie. Back in …

Be careful of what you mod. In the case of Take Two Interactive's anarchy simulator, GTA V, you can have whales falling from the sky, Iron Man flying through it, or the Hulk hurling stuff into it, but don't create a way to enter an alternate, moddable version of GTA …

Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two, is taking legal action against The BBC, in response to a dramatized documentary that the network has been developing, following the upstart of Rockstar Games and the creation of Grand Theft Auto, supposedly in an attempt to encourage young people to get in to programming. It …

Rockstar parent company, Take-Two Interactive, released its quarterly earnings this week and incidentally, that means we get a small peak inside the inner-workings of the publisher. Most companies have to justify or explain business decisions to investors so when the earnings report came around, Take-Two had to acknowledge the reasoning …

Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind 2K Games and Rockstar may be acquired by Activision as rumors of a buyout deal begin to swirl, causing share prices to rise. This wouldn't be the first time that Activision attempted to buy the company, back in 2008 it made a $2 billion bid, …

I think we all knew that Linsey Lohan's attempt to sue Rockstar Games over what she claims is an unlicensed usage of her likeness, was a bit ridiculous and now it seems both the GTA V developer and its publisher Take Two have stated that in court. In papers filed at …

Red Dead Redemption was released all the way back in 2010, since then it has gone on to sell thirteen million copies which sparked rumours of a potential sequel. However, it still took Rockstar parent company, Take-Two, a few years to actually bring up the possibility. Take-Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick, seems …

Take-Two Interactive is facing another Grand Theft Auto V related lawsuit today after a former reality TV star claimed that her likeness was used in the game. Karen Gravano, the daughter of Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, was recently a star of ‘Mob Wives' and is claiming that her life story …

Microsoft has made it quite clear that it's taking a pickaxe to the used game industry and it's mining a chunk of change from it before dismembering it over the next few years. At least that's the plan, but not everyone is keen to let the software giant have all …