Take-Two Interactive

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Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Type	Public (NASDAQ: TTWO)
Founded	1993
Headquarters	New York, New York, USA
Key people	Ben Feder (CEO, President)
Industry	Computer and video game
Products	Grand Theft Auto series, etc.
Revenue	$1.037 billion USD (2006)
Employees	2,002 (2007)
Website	www.take2games.com

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) 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 Windsor, England. 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, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. There are also lesser-known expansions to the original GTA on PlayStation and PC, Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 and the PC only Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961.

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) 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 Conflict: Vietnam); 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 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]

[edit] Wholly owned subsidiaries

2K Games
- Firaxis Games (acquired in 2005)
  - Frog City Software (merged into Firaxis Games in 2006)
  - PopTop Software (merged into Firaxis Games in 2006)
- Irrational Games (acquired in 2006)
- Take-Two Licensing (formerly known as TDK Mediactive)
- Venom Games, Ltd.
2K Sports
- Visual Concepts
- Kush Games
- Indie Built, Inc. (acquired in 2004; closed April 28 2006)
Global Star Software
Jack of All Games
Joytech, Ltd.
Rockstar Games, Ltd.
- Rockstar North (formerly known as DMA Design)
- Rockstar Leeds (formerly known as Mobius Entertainment)
- Rockstar London
- Rockstar Vancouver (formerly known as Barking Dog Studios)
- Rockstar San Diego (formerly known as Angel Studios)
- Rockstar Toronto (formerly known as Rockstar Canada)
- Rockstar Vienna (formerly known as neo Software; closed May 11 2006)
- Rockstar Lincoln (formerly known as Tarantula Studios)