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Bioshock 2 has been delayed until 2010. The game was scheduled for release in late October, but Take-Two Interactive has announced that it will now be released in its new financial year (which actually begins in November 2009). Max Payne 3 is likely to suffer the same fate, moving from its end-of-2009 window to an [...]

Development Studio 3D Realms Entertainment has closed due to financial problems. This leaves the future of the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever up in the air. Take 2 Interactive has retained the rights to the Duke Nukem series, confirming that its original deal with 3D Realms was for the publishing side only and did not include [...]

EA has confirmed that private discussions are now to take place between itself and Take Two over the proposed acquisition of the latter. This is the latest development in a story that’s been running for months. Take Two repeatedly dismissed EA’s increasing bids for the company, vowing not to even consider a sale until after [...]

  Following very vague indications from Take 2 that Ken Levine – Bioshock’s big daddy – would be ‘involved’ in development of the sequel at 2K Marin, Variety is reporting that Levine is deep in the midst of contractual negotiations with overlords at Take 2. With Bioshock such a huge success, Levine certainly seems due [...]

It’s been talked about, but finally today, Take-Two Interactive announced that it has struck a deal with Universal Studios to bring Bioshock to the big screen. The movie will be directed by Gore Verbinski, who previously directed the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and The Ring.

Take-Two Interactive announced today that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV surpassed all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales. It sold approximately 6 million units globally, creating an estimated retail value of more than US$500 million in the first week. On a related note, Microsoft were pleased to announce that the Xbox 360 [...]

In a recent presentation (slide 25), Take Two has highlighted the possibility for MMOs based on Bioshock and Civilization. The precise phraseology used is ‘Potential Take Two Opportunities: Bioshock, Civilization’. This presentation was made at the Bank of America SMID Conference, with Take Two fighting to justify its portfolio value and ongoing rejection of EA’s [...]

Unwilling to wait for Take Two to release GTA IV and come back to the negotiation, EA has made an offer to Take Two’s shareholders of $26 per share – well above the current market valuation. This move effectively takes the decision out of the hands of Strauss Zelnick and his board of directors, who [...]

On February 24th 2008, EA revealed that it had made a bid to purchase huge games publisher Take Two (whose primary asset is the GTA producing Rockstar). Though EA CEO John Riccitiello had been keen to acquire the pubisher for some time, the objective was only made public when dialogue between the two companies halted. [...]

Stupidity has struck once again for the ill-fated Manhunt 2, as the BBFC’s appeal to the High Court is successful. Beginning some months ago, the British Board of Film Classification opted not to classify Manhunt 2, effectively banning it from sale in the UK, citing its ‘callousness of tone’ as one reason for doing so. [...]

Another one bites the dust. 2K Games, one arm of publishing giant Take 2, has just announced its acquisition of Illusion Softworks, the Czech developer – and owner – of properties like Hidden & Dangerous and Mafia. This news comes moments after EA announces its official acquisition of Bioware and Pandemic. The deal will bring [...]

Yeah, I did a double take as well. It’s available here on GameShadow and… yeah… it’s Duke Nukem Forever… kinda. A lot of the sensible money says Duke is a bygone era – the gameplay on show here certainly doesn’t support any conclusion other than that. All the same, it’ll be nice to see a proper [...]

Take 2, via its publishing label 2K, has set up a new development studio near San Francisco with the intention of producing a sequel to Irrational Games’ Bioshock. Irrational was swallowed up by publisher Take 2 during development of Bioshock, and is now known as “2K Boston“, with an undisclosed number of its staff relocating [...]

At his Montreal Game Summit keynote, Jonathon Blow (the one man band behind 2008′s time-warping platformer, Braid) has railed at the McDonalds-esque game design in MMOs and in Bioshock. “MMOs have empty gameplay, but keep players hooked with constant fake rewards,” said Blow. His concern is that, like fast food, MMOs are empty, and ‘nutritionally’ bereft – [...]