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a move that leverages the recent acquisition of sports-focused developer Visual Concepts, as well as its seven-year licensing deal with the Major League Baseball Players' Association (also announced yesterday), Take-Two Interactive has launched a new publishing label: 2K Games.
According to a statement, 2K Games--and a sub-brand, 2K Sports--will develop games for consoles, handhelds, and PCs. Titles published under 2K Games and 2K Sports will come from both in-house studios and third parties.
"2K Games will incorporate Take-Two's internally owned development studios Visual Concepts, Kush Games, Indie Built, Venom Games, PopTop Software, and Frog City Software, as well as the team at Take-Two Licensing," the company revealed this morning.
Some of the titles that will now come from the new label are Close Combat: First to Fight, Close Combat: Red Phoenix, Stronghold 2, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
"The team at 2K Games is rapidly building a sweeping lineup of high-profile licensed and proprietary titles," said Paul Eibeler, president of Take-Two.
Yesterday, Take-Two also announced that it plans to acquire all common assets belonging to Visual Concepts, the previously Sega-owned development studio known for publishing ESPN-branded sports titles. In an interesting subplot to the deal, Sega will bring some Take-Two/Visual Concepts titles to Asian arcades.
"We view the acquisition of Visual Concepts as a significant positive for Take-Two," TerraNova Institutional analyst Boris Markovich said in a report released today. "Take-Two now has two of the premier development teams in the industry [Visual Concepts and Rockstar Games, publisher of the GTA series]." The Asia deal also brings Take-Two's games into a new market for the publisher.
In general, analysts have been in favor of Take-Two's recent maneuvers and have said that gaining traction in the sports-game industry will be good for the publisher, as long as it can bring in enough revenue to counteract the estimated $80 to $150 million it reportedly spent on the MLB deal.
After about four hours of trading this morning, Take-Two's stock had risen 1.5 percent, just above $34 a share. Yesterday, Wedbush Morgan Securities predicted that Take-Two's stock price could rise to $40 a share by the end of 2005.
By Beth Winegarner -- GameSpot
2K Games作为TAKE2的新商标，将主要作为如下子工作室Visual Concepts, Kush Games, Indie Built, Venom Games, PopTop Software, Frog City Software的发行标志
而运动游戏将作为2K GAMES的一个副牌2K SPORTS,其他一些游戏系列：Close Combat: First to Fight, Close Combat: Red Phoenix, Stronghold 2, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 将会诞生于这个新商标。
By haynes -- Tgfc. |
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