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Take-Two Interactive is an game publisher, developer and distributor.

Franchises[]

List of Take-Two Interactive games

Take-Two Interactive has a number of significant franchises under its belt. The most famous is the properties under the Rockstar Games label including the Grand Theft Auto series. They also own the 2K Sports label with prominent sports games including WWE, NBA 2K and PGA Tour 2K. Under the general 2K Games label, they have a variety of long-running series including Borderlands, BioShock, Civilization and Carnival Games.

Subsidiaries[]

Current[]

  • Rockstar Games, Ltd. in New York City, founded in 1998
    • Rockstar North in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1988 as DMA Design, acquired from Infogrames in September 1999, world famous for the Grand Theft Auto series
    • Rockstar Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, founded as Mobius Entertainment in 1997
    • Rockstar San Diego, founded in 1984 as Angel Studios, acquired November 2002
    • Rockstar Japan in Tokyo, Japan, started 2005
    • Rockstar London, started in 2005
    • Rockstar Vancouver, founded in May 1998 as Barking Dog Studios, acquired August 2002
    • Rockstar Toronto in Ontario, Canada, started as Rockstar Canada in 1999
    • Rockstar Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England, founded in 1997 as Tarantula Studios
    • Rockstar New England in Andover, Massachusetts, founded in 1999 as Mad Doc Software
  • Take-Two Licensing, founded on September 11, 2000, as TDK Mediactive, acquired in December 2003
  • 2K Games in Novato, California, founded in 2005
    • Firaxis Games in Hunt Valley, Maryland, founded in 1996, acquired in 2005
    • Irrational Games in Quincy, Massachusetts, acquired on January 9, 2006
    • Visual Concepts, acquired from Sega in January 2005
    • HB Studios, acquired in March 2021
    • 2K Sports, subdivision of 2K focused solely on the development and publishing of Take-Two's sports titles. It was started in 2005 along the Visual Concepts purchase
    • 2K Czech in Brno, Czech Republic, founded in 1997 as Illusion Softworks, acquired in 2007
    • 2K Marin in Novato, California and Canberra, Australia, started in 2007
    • 2K Play in Ontario, Canada, founded as Global Star Software in 1992, acquired in 1999, name changed September 10, 2007
  • Private Division, founded in December 2017, is a label designed to publish and market independent titles. They have announced a number of deals to publish games from notable independent developers such as Roll7, Moon Studios and Obsidian Entertainment.
    • Intercept Games, subsidiary with several of the developers from Star Theory Games, the developers of Kerbal Space Program

Defunct[]

  • 2K Australia in Canberra, Australia, folded into 2K Marin
  • Frog City Software in San Francisco, California, founded in 1995, acquired by Gathering of Developers in 2004, consolidated into Firaxis Games in 2006
  • Gathering of Developers in Texas, founded January 1998, acquired May 2000, closed September 2004; brands merged into Rockstar and 2K
  • Gotham Games, started in 2002, eventually closed
  • Indie Built, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded as Access Software in 1983, acquired from Microsoft in 2004; closed April 28, 2006
  • Kush Games in Camarillo, California closed in 2008
  • PopTop Software in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1993, merged into Firaxis Games in 2006
  • TalonSoft in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1995, acquired in 2000, closed in 2005; most brands sold to Matrix Games
  • Rockstar Vienna, founded January 4, 1993, as neo Software, closed May 11, 2006
  • Venom Games, Ltd. in Newcastle upon Tyne, founded in 2003, acquired in September 2004; closed in July 2008
  • PAM Development in Paris, France, founded in 1997, acquired in 2006; closed in 2008

Sold[]

  • Jack of All Games in West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio, founded in 1990 as Hyde Park Distributors, and acquired in 1998, sold December 21, 2009, to SYNNEX Corporation

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