Take-Two Interactive

Take 2 Interactive ( also and especially in the English-speaking world Take-Two Interactive) is a 1993 based developer, publisher and distributor of computer games with headquarters in New York, USA. There are branches in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the Benelux countries, Canada and Australia. For the business in Germany, the Munich branch is responsible.

Developer of Take 2 are among others in San Diego, Vancouver, Toronto and Novato.

Most of Take- 2 games are marketed through its subsidiaries, Rockstar Games and 2K Games. Among the games are successful series like Grand Theft Auto, BioShock and Borderlands.

Take 2 is a corporation and is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. Chairman of the Board since the end of March 2007 and CEO since January 2011, Strauss Zelnick. Since 2003, Heinz Henn works for Take-Two Interactive.

History

1993-2004

Take 2 was founded by Ryan Brant 's son Peter Brant, in New York in 1993. In March 1998, Take 2 Interactive BMG acquired the division of Bertelsmann AG for 14.2 million U.S. dollars. End of 1998, BMG Interactive was renamed Rockstar Games. In the same year took over Take 2 the video game distributor Jack of All Games, which was founded in 1990 by David Rosenbaum. As early as 1999 published the developer merger Gathering of Developers Take 2 Games over, in May 2000 Take 2 Gathering of Developers completely took over. In the following months, Take 2 shortened the name to Gathering and published several games of the merger such as Max Payne and Tropico. Gathering the future also served as a mark for other publications. That same year, the U.S. development studio was acquired by PopTop Software Take 2.

The end of 2002, the publisher Global Star Software was a part of Jack of All Games and thus by Take 2 From the middle of 2003 were completely self incorporated the transactions by Global Star Software in Take 2 and regulated by the New York headquarters from.

In September 2004 Gathering was fully integrated software in Globalstar and abandoned as a separate brand. Two months later, in November 2004, Take 2 paid 22.3 million U.S. dollars to Atari for the rights to the Civilization series to obtain. Take 2 at the same time announced a long- term partnership with Civilization developer Firaxis and its influential game designer Sid Meier. In addition, Take 2 secured in the same train the sports division of SEGA. For about 24 million U.S. dollars rigging took over 2 Visual Concepts including all trademarks and rights as the ESPN license. With the purchase of Take 2 also founded the label 2K Sports, the future all the sports games of the company should be published on the.

2005 to today

In 2005, was followed by further purchases of companies. Among them were the developer Kush Games, Irrational Games and Firaxis and also the Gaia Capital Group. Overall, Take 2 was within one year of 80 million U.S. dollars for takeovers.

Also in 2005, founded the label 2K Games Take 2, in the future, all the games that did not fit the 2K Sports label, should be published. Thus, the previously planned for Global Star Software games appeared no more about it, but by 2K Games. 2007 Global Star Software has therefore been renamed 2K Play to above market casual games.

As part of internal restructuring and strengthening the focus on video games Take 2 sold in September 2007 with a manufacturer Joytech for console peripherals such as gamepads and steering wheels at Mad Catz.

In February 2008 it was announced that the rival company Electronic Arts has provided the Board of Take 2 25 U.S. dollars per share for a nickname of the company. Later, Electronic Arts increased the offer to $ 26 per share. Thus, the bid was 63 percent higher than the price of the share on the stock exchange. Already a few weeks earlier rumors of a possible takeover the internet. In May 2008 it was announced that Take 2 and Electronic Arts could not agree and the talks were set.

Take 2 outsourced the distribution of its games from September 2008 to Ditan Distribution and sold the house distributor Jack of All Games finally in December 2009 for 43.25 million U.S. dollars to Synnex.

In January 2013, Take 2 secured the rights to the WWE game series from THQ insolvent. In March 2013 Take 2 made ​​it clear that one can expect more titles in the near future in addition to the titles already announced Grand Theft Auto V and Agent.

Games (selection)

• Age of Wonders Series ( Triumph Studios)
• BioShock series ( 2K Boston/2K Australia)
• Borderlands series ( Gearbox Software )
• Arena Wars ( Ascaron / exDream )
• Duke Nukem Forever ( Gearbox Software/3D Realms )
• Emergency 2, 3 and 4 ( Sixteen Tons Entertainment)
• Flying Heroes ( Pterodon / illusion softworks )
• Grand Theft Auto series ( Rockstar North )
• Hidden & Dangerous 2 ( Illusion Softworks )
• L.A. Noire ( Team Bondi )
• Mafia series ( illusion Softworks/2K Czech)
• Manhunt series ( Rockstar Toronto )
• Max Payne series ( Remedy Entertainment / Rockstar Vancouver )
• Midnight Club series ( Rockstar San Diego )
• Prey ( 3D Realms / Human Head Studios )
• Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3 ( PopTop Software )
• Red Dead Redemption ( Rockstar San Diego )
• Sacred ( Ascaron )
• Serious Sam series ( Croteam )
• Sid Meier 's Civilization IV ( Firaxis Games )
• Sid Meier 's Pirates! ( Firaxis Games )
• Sid Meier 's Railroads! ( Firaxis Games )
• Stronghold 1 and 2 ( Firefly Studios)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks )
• Tropico 1 and 2 ( PopTop Software / Frog City Software )
• Vietcong series ( Pterodon / Illusion Softworks )
• You Do not Know Jack (Jelly Vision, Inc. / Coda Entertainment)