What happens when the head of a major video game publisher – in this case the company behind Grand Theft Auto And Borderland—a question is asked about a PC port that pretty sure is going to happen but hasn’t been announced yet? You get a funny and confusing response from a manager who can’t say ...
Picture: Private Department It looks like Grand Theft Auto editor take two trying to get rid of his indie label, Private DepartmentThis is the result of a new IGN report which describes in detail how the recent Studio closures and mismanagement have “quietly killed” the indie publisher. Why this under-the-radar AAA title is more than ...
It was only about two years ago that the video game industry started charging $70 for major games instead of the usual $60 due to rising game development costs (and greed). This change understandably hasn’t gone down well with gamers as the cost of keeping up with modern games continues to rise, but that may ...
Picture: Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto VI Publisher Take-Two Interactive announced massive cuts in an SEC filing at the close of business today. The company said it will lay off 5 percent of its approximately 11,000 employees and has canceled several projects in development worth $140 million to “streamline its pipeline.” Why Redfall’s hot new ...
During Take-Two Interactive’s recent conference call with investors, CEO Strauss Zelnick was asked about other publishers selling AAA games at a reduced price shortly after release. His company was one of many Start charging $70 for gamesand in his opinion, at least, he has not seen a “pushback” in relation to the new price. An ...
photo: John Phillips (Getty Images) Microtransactions in games like Grand Theft Auto Online have become big business for video game publishers. And it’s likely that’s not going to change anytime soon. New details unearthed in a recent contract extension for Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, explain that the CEO will earn a big bonus as ...
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, seen here in a luxe cashmere turtleneck in 2017.photo: Stuart C Wilson (Getty Images) In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a global pandemic, the CEOs of the largest gaming companies collectively brought home almost $1 billion. This is acc a new ...
image: Rockstar Games 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 ...
