TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE

'Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.' () is an American publisher, developer, and distributor of video and computer games and video game peripherals. The company's headquarters are in New York City, United States, with international headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Development studio locations include San Diego, Vancouver, Toronto and Austin, Texas.
Take-Two's subsidiary Rockstar Games created the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, which includes ''Grand Theft Auto'', ''Grand Theft Auto 2'', ''Grand Theft Auto III'', '', '', '', '', and ''Grand Theft Auto 4". There are also lesser-known expansions to the original ''GTA'' on PlayStation and PC, '' and the PC only ''.
As well as ''GTA'', Rockstar developed several other action games, including ''Manhunt'' and ''State of Emergency''. In other genres, Rockstar creations include ''Midnight Club'' and its sequels, the Western-themed ''Red Dead Revolver'' (originally developed by Capcom), and ''Bully''.
Take-Two's other subsidiaries include Global Star Software, Gathering (formerly Gathering of Developers aka GoD Games), 2K Games, 2K Sports, Gotham Games, TalonSoft, Jack of All Games (its distribution arm), Frog City Software (developer of the famous ''Imperialism'' game), 2K Boston/2k Australia (Creators of Bioshock) and video game peripheral manufacturer Joytech. Gathering will be publishing the oft-delayed ''Duke Nukem Forever'', though it is currently considered vaporware by many in the gaming community. Notable titles from Global Star include the ''Conflict'' series (the most recent game in which is ''); Sega's ESPN sports titles, for which 2K Sports was the publisher; and the ''Outlaw'' sports series, which includes ''Outlaw Golf'' and ''Outlaw Volleyball''.
In February of 1999, Take-Two published the game Biosys under the company Jumpstart Interactive, a point-and-click adventure which follows the protagonist Professor Alan Russell and is set inside the fictional ecological facility Biosphere Four.
In 2004 Take 2 formed two new publishing companies called 2K Games and 2K Sports to manage a group of newly acquired development studios as well as publishing deals with a variety of other well known studios. Take 2 acquired the rights to the ESPN 2K sports games (When EA announced the ESPN deal, they dropped "ESPN" from their games), created by Visual Concepts (football and basketball) and Kush Games (baseball and hockey), from Sega as part of the creation of 2K Sports.
In March 2007 Take Two filed a lawsuit against Jack Thompson, to prevent him from filing a public nuisance complaint in Florida court like he did with ''Bully''.
At the annual meeting on March 29, 2007, Take-Two investors ousted five of six board members, including the chief executive, Paul Eibeler, who was replaced by Ben Feder[1]
Ryan Brant, former chief executive of Take-Two Interactive Software, pleaded guilty in February 2007 to falsifying business records. He faced up to four years in prison but received a lighter sentence in a plea agreement after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors.[2]
In 2005, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a lawsuit that Brant, with the company's former chief financial officers, Larry Muller and James David Jr., and its head of sales, Robert Blau, inflated revenue in fiscal years 2000 and 2001.
In June the UFC filed a lawsuit against the company over the video game they created for the organization.[3]

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Wholly owned subsidiaries

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Wholly owned subsidiaries

★ 2K Games

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★ Firaxis Games (acquired in 2005)

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★ Frog City Software (merged into Firaxis Games in 2006)

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★ PopTop Software (merged into Firaxis Games in 2006)

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★ 2K Boston/2K Australia (formerly known as Irrational Games, acquired in 2006)

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★ Take-Two Licensing (formerly known as TDK Mediactive)

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★ Venom Games, Ltd.

★ 2K Sports

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★ Visual Concepts

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★ Kush Games

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★ Indie Built, Inc. (acquired in 2004; closed April 28 2006)

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★ PAM Development (acquired in 2006)

★ Global Star Software

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★ Gathering of Developers

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★ Gotham Games

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★ TalonSoft

★ Jack of All Games

★ Joytech, Ltd. (Sold to Mad Catz September 7th 2007)

★ Rockstar Games, Ltd.

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★ Rockstar North (formerly known as DMA Design)

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★ Rockstar Leeds (formerly known as Mobius Entertainment)

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★ Rockstar Japan

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★ Rockstar London

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★ Rockstar Vancouver (formerly known as Barking Dog Studios)

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★ Rockstar San Diego (formerly known as Angel Studios)

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★ Rockstar Toronto (formerly known as Rockstar Canada)

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★ Rockstar Vienna (formerly known as neo Software; closed May 11 2006)

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★ Rockstar Lincoln (formerly known as Tarantula Studios)

External links

★ Take-Two's Official Site

★ Rockstar Games Official Site

★ Gathering Official Site

★ 2K Games Official Site

★ 2K Sports Official Site (2K Games' sports games label)

★ Global Star Software Official Site

★ Jack Of All Games Official Site

★ Joytech Official Site

★ Venom Games Official Site

★ Take-Two Interactive entry at MobyGames