Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive (the parent company of Rockstar Games) listed some of the publisher’s most popular and successful franchises in an investor call today. And during that meeting, Take-Two and Rockstar Games apparently remembered that the Midnight bar franchise exists. It has been over a decade since the last game in the series, so it’s easy to assume that companies just forgot.
This drop of name was discovered by IGN. But just a moment! Before you get too excited, beyond the brief mention and the Midnight bar Logo was seen on some investor slides, there was no breaking news about a new game in the street racing series or just a remastered collection. But when you consider that it was 13 years ago 2008 Midnight Club LA, Just hearing the name of the franchise in 2022 is surprising.
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This confirmation that Rockstar Games is actually more than just one GTA Factory follows an investor presentation in August in which Take-Two attempted to showcase a “diverse” selection of games that included: GTA V, GTA Online, and … um them GTA seriesS. As mentioned in our previous story, this presentation contained very little mentions of Midnight bar and Max Payne on a random slide. But today’s name Drop by Zelnick seems to be the first time in a long time that anyone with power has spoken publicly in Take-Two or Rockstar Midnight bar
It should be noted that during this presentation today, Take-Two also announced the acquisition of the mobile game company Zynga. known. When the $ 12.7 billion acquisition of the FarmVille Creator goes through it will be the biggest sale in video game history. And how it happens, the slide Midnight bar ‘s logo, shown today, featured Take-Two-IP, which could be turned into successful mobile games.
Yes that means Midnight bar might well come back as an iPhone game or something. And while I have nothing against cell phone games – in fact, I play them a lot – it would be disappointing if the fun racing franchise never again took a big budget console / PC trip in favor of a free mobile app or something similar. I imagine many for a long time Midnight bar Fans won’t be too happy if this happens in the end. Sure considering how bad they are GTA trilogy Remasters are out, I doubt a lot of fans are screaming for remasters Midnight bar Neither do games.
No matter what the future holds, at least we know for sure that Take-Two and Rockstar Games still know that Midnight bar exists. That is something. As for bully Fans, well …
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