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: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) A group of seven lawmakers is sending a letter to the world’s largest video game companies tomorrow asking each of them what steps they are taking to combat “harassment and extremism” in online video games. As axios reportsThe seven Democratic representatives — including Lori Trahan (Massachusetts), Katie Porter (California) and ...
screenshot: humans can fly Developer People Can Fly just received another piece of bad news. After learning that earlier this year The studio didn’t see a cent of it pioneer Later in 2021, it was revealed that Rockstar and 2K Games’ parent company, Take-Two, announced their intention to stop publishing PCF’s successor game, currently known ...
screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku Microsoft’s other major revival was announced two years ago and hasn’t seen since: Perfectly dark, the series of pioneering spy shooters, is back. But Rare, the original developer, is not leading the project. The next entry is being developed by The Initiative, a new studio. Games are taking longer to develop ...
picture: Nintendo The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, a never-ending cash mine tasked with diversifying the country’s economy (and glossing over its human rights record), earned a 5.01% stake in Nintendo. The news was announced in a filing filed with the Japanese Ministry of Finance. Bloomberg reports. It follows similar investments were made in ...
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 ...
image: Mediatonic / Housemarque / Turtle Rock / Money photo by Ozan Kose (Getty Images) The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. During the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a shipload of smaller companies at a rate that announced a new acquisition every few weeks. All of ...
Screenshot: Rockstar Games After months of rumors, speculation, leaks and teasers, Rockstar finally released the remastered Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Final edition Pick up yesterday. It landed with a thud as players met and documents countless visual errors, Game bugs and strange changes to models and textures. Even viewed in a vacuum, this ...
Screenshot: Rockstar Games / Take-Two / Kotaku While players continue to criticize the recently released GTA trilogy remastered collection, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive has decided that this will be the Perfect Time to use DMCA opt-out notices to remove more GTA Mods and fan projects. On November 11th, so the people from the ...
