List of acquisitions by Take-Two Interactive

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Take-Two Interactive is an American video game holding company. They have acquired many publishers and developers since the company's foundation in 1993. Today, most of Take-Two Interactive's developers operate as subsidiaries of its publishing arms: 2K and Rockstar Games.

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Acquisitions

DateCompanyParent divisionCountryValue (USD)Derived studiosReference
September 1996 Mission Studios Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United States.svg  USA 2,114,478Mission Studios [1]
April 1997 GameTek Rockstar Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA Rockstar Toronto [2] [3]
March 1998 BMG Interactive Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK 14,200,000 Rockstar Games [4] [5]
June 1998 Tarantula Studios Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Rockstar Lincoln [6]
August 1998 Jack of All Games Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United States.svg  USA 16,800,000 Jack of All Games [7]
December 1998 Talonsoft Flag of the United States.svg  USA Talonsoft [8]
August 1999 Global Star Software Flag of the United States.svg  USA Global Star Software
September 1999 DMA Design Rockstar Games Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK 11,000,000 Rockstar North [9]
February 2000Joytech Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Joytech [10]
March 2000Pixel Broadband StudiosFlag of Israel.svg  Israel Pixel Broadband Studios [11]
April 2000Telstar Electronic StudiosFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK None [12]
DVDWave.comFlag of the United States.svg  USA DVDWave.com [13]
May 2000 Gathering of Developers Flag of the United States.svg  USA Gathering of Developers [14]
July 2000 PopTop Software 2K Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA 5,800,000 PopTop Software [1]
January 2001 Neo Software Rockstar Games Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Rockstar Vienna [15]
July 2001Techcorp Take-Two Interactive Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong Techcorp [16]
August 2002 Barking Dog Studios Rockstar Games Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 3,000,000 Rockstar Vancouver [17]
November 2002 Angel Studios Flag of the United States.svg  USA 34,700,000 Rockstar San Diego [18] [1]
March 2003 Frog City Software 2K Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA Frog City Software
April 2003 Cat Daddy Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA Cat Daddy Games
September 2003 TDK Mediactive Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United States.svg  USA 22,700,000 Take-Two Licensing [19]
April 2004 Möbius Entertainment Rockstar Games Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Rockstar Leeds [20]
September 2004 Venom Games 2K Games Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Venom Games [21]
October 2004 Access Software Flag of the United States.svg  USA Indie Built [22] [23]
January 2005 Visual Concepts
Kush Games 		Flag of the United States.svg  USA 32,200,000 Visual Concepts
2K Los Angeles 		[24] [25]
June 2005PAM SoftwareFlag of France.svg  France 11,400,000PAM Software [24]
November 2005 Firaxis Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA 27,000,000 Firaxis Games [26] [25]
January 2006 Irrational Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA 10,000,000 Irrational Games
2K Australia 		[27] [25]
January 2008 Illusion Softworks Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2K Czech [28] [29]
April 2008 Mad Doc Software Rockstar Games Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Rockstar New England [30]
February 2016 Social Point Take-Two Interactive Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 250,000,000 Social Point [31]
May 2019 Dhruva Interactive Rockstar Games Flag of India.svg  India 7,900,000 Rockstar India [A] [32]
August 2020Playdots Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United States.svg  USA 192,000,000Playdots [33]
October 2020 Ruffian Games Rockstar Games Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Rockstar Dundee [34]
March 2021 HB Studios 2K Games Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada HB Studios [35]
HookBang's gaming divisionFlag of the United States.svg  USA Visual Concepts Austin [36]
June 2021 Nordeus Take-Two Interactive Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 378,000,000 Nordeus [37]
July 2021DynamixyzFlag of France.svg  France Dynamixyz [38]
November 2021Elite3D
Turia Games		 2K Games Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 31st Union Spain [39]
November 2021 Roll7 Private Division Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  UK Roll7 [40]
January 2022 Zynga Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United States.svg  USA 12,700,000,000 Chartboost
Echtra Games
NaturalMotion
Peak Games
Rollic
Small Giant Games
StarLark		 [41]
September 2022 Storemaven Zynga Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Storemaven [42]
March 2023 GameClub Take-Two Interactive Flag of the United States.svg  USA [43]
March 2024 Gearbox Entertainment 2K Games Flag of the United States.svg  USA 460,000,000 Gearbox Software [44]

Notes

  1. ↑ Rockstar India already existed before the acquisition, with Dhruva Interactive being merged into the studio.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rogers, Dan Lee (March 3, 2004). "The End Game: How Top Developers Sold Their Studios – Part One". Gamasutra . Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ Johnston, Chris (31 July 1997). "GameTek Assets Sold to Take 2". GameSpot . Archived from the original on 1 December 1998.
  3. ↑ "Studio". Rockstar Toronto. Archived from the original on 18 March 2009.
  4. ↑ Johnston, Chris (March 12, 1998). "Take 2 Takes BMG". GameSpot . Archived from the original on December 1, 1998.
  5. ↑ "BMG Interactive Acquired by Take-Two Interactive". Telecompaper. March 16, 1998. Archived from the original on September 8, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ Johnston, Chris (April 28, 2000). "Take 2 Captures Tarantula". GameSpot. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  7. ↑ IGN Staff (August 24, 1998). "Take Two Acquires Distributor". ign.com. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ Dunkin, Alan (December 24, 1998). "Take-Two Buys TalonSoft". GameSpot . Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ Kennedy, Sam (April 27, 2000). "Take-Two Acquires DMA Design". GameSpot. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  10. ↑ Jebens, Harley (February 28, 2000). "Take Two Grows By Two". GameSpot. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  11. ↑ IGN Staff (March 9, 2000). "Take Two Gets Wide". ign.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ Mullen, Micheal (April 27, 2000). "Take-Two Controlling Telstar". GameSpot. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  13. ↑ Jebens, Harley (March 3, 1999). "Take-Two Increases Online Presence". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 11, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  14. ↑ Gestalt (May 1, 2000). "Take 2 Interactive buys GOD". Eurogamer . Archived from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  15. ↑ Business (30 April 2001). "Battle for games firm escalates". BBC News . Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  16. ↑ Ahmed, Shahed (May 17, 2006). "Take-Two acquires Techcorp Limited". gamespot.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Take-Two Acquires Barking Dog Studios". gamasutra.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  18. ↑ Calvert, Justin (November 20, 2002). "Angel Studios acquired by Rockstar". GameSpot. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  19. ↑ IGN (September 3, 2003). "Take-Two Acquires TDK Mediactive". IGN . Retrieved October 1, 2017.
  20. ↑ Calvert, Justin (8 April 2004). "Mobius renamed Rockstar Leeds". gamespot.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  21. ↑ MCV Staff (2 July 2008). "Venom Games to close?". MCV/Develop .
  22. ↑ GamesIndustry International (December 17, 2004). "Microsoft sells off sports game studio to Take Two". Eurogamer . Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  23. ↑ Adams, David (December 17, 2004). "Take-Two Picks Up Amped Team". IGN . Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  24. 1 2 "Take-Two takes Sega's sports-game studios". CNET. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  25. 1 2 3 Sinclair, Brendan (January 31, 2006). "Take-Two reveals acquisition prices, hints at future lawsuits". GameSpot . Archived from the original on February 26, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  26. ↑ Adams, David (November 7, 2005). "Take-Two Buys Firaxis". IGN . Archived from the original on February 12, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  27. ↑ Jenkins, David (January 9, 2006). "Take-Two Acquires Irrational Games". Gamasutra . Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  28. ↑ "Welcome 2K Czech: Take-Two brings Mafia dev Illusion Softworks into the family". engadget.com. 8 January 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  29. ↑ Purchese, Robert (8 January 2008). "Take-Two acquires Illusion Softworks". eurogamer.net. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  30. ↑ Sinclair, Brendan (April 4, 2008). "Rockstar acquires Mad Doc". GameSpot. Archived from the original on October 17, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  31. ↑ "Take-Two acquires mobile developer Social Point for $250m". February 2017.
  32. ↑ Makedonski, Brett (May 13, 2019). "Rockstar swoops as Starbreeze is forced to sell off a studio". Destructoid . Retrieved May 13, 2019.
  33. ↑ Bary, Emily (18 August 2020). "Take-Two to acquire Two Dots developer Playdots for $192 million". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  34. ↑ "Rockstar Acquires Ruffian Games, Rebrands Rockstar Dundee". 12 October 2020.
  35. ↑ "2K acquires PGA Tour 2K21 studio, signs Tiger Woods". 16 March 2021.
  36. ↑ "2K acquires HookBang games business". 23 March 2021.
  37. ↑ "Take-Two enters soccer market with $378m Nordeus acquisition". 2 June 2021.
  38. ↑ "Take-Two acquires dynamixyz". July 2021.
  39. ↑ "2K Acquires Studio That Worked On Diablo, Star Wars, Call Of Duty, And More Big Franchises". GameSpot. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  40. ↑ "Take-Two has acquired OlliOlli dev Roll7". 15 November 2021.
  41. ↑ Balu, Nivedita. "Take-Two to buy FarmVille maker Zynga in deal valued at $12.7 billion". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  42. ↑ Balu, Nivedita. "Zynga to buy Storemaven". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  43. ↑ Harding-Rolls, Piers (March 23, 2023). "Take-Two has acquired mobile multi-game subscription service GameClub". via Twitter. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
  44. ↑ "Take-Two Buys Gearbox from Embracer, Confirms Development on New Borderlands Game". 28 March 2024.
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