Take Two

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Take Two

Basic information
Founded	1993
Legal structure	Holding Company
Industry	Video games
Official website	https://www.take2games.com/

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an NYC-based video game holding company founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993. The company owns three major publishing labels, Rockstar Games, Zynga and 2K, which operate internal game development studios.

Relevant incidents

Incidents not mentioned here can be found on the Take-Two Interactive category page.

2K Games - exclusivity contracts (stub)

Much like with EA, 2K has also purchased exclusivity contracts with sports leagues, thus also restricting options for consumers. (Maybe mention pga or wwe?)

2k - personal data breaches (stub)

ref a ref b

2k - faulty game launcher (stub)

Ref

2k - shuttered studios (stub)

Wikipedia page ref(note: use as springboard, find dedicated sources for history of buyouts and shuttering)

General - Microtransactions (MTX) and lootboxes (stub)

Ref | should cover all 3 major companies owned by T2, ref covers 2k. Zynga's pioneering of predatory mtx needs to be covered (see cityville and Farmville games.) Rockstar, shark cards in GTAO? No clue how we could shoehorn this one.

Borderlands Series - Terms of Service changes and alleged spyware 2025-Apr https://medium.com/@DarkRa/why-gamers-are-furious-over-take-two-and-2ks-new-terms-of-service-051e7a6a5594 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKMhqKzHxs&pp=ygUMdGFrZSB0d28gdG9z