Take-Two reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 (ended December 31). Sales of major franchises, including the acclaimed GTA remaster trilogy, helped the company increase revenue. However, its profit fell by almost $40 million.

Yesterday, Take-Two announced the purchase of Zynga for $12.7 billion and announced plans to move its main franchises to mobile. Soon after, the shares of the GTA publisher went down.

The video game market continues to consolidate. January is not a hindrance to the process. Take-Two has announced an agreement with Zynga. Soon the GTA publisher will become the owner of one of the largest mobile companies on the market.

The release of a trilogy of remasters of classic GTA turned into a failure. User ratings on Metacritic dropped to 0.5/10 — one of the worst results in history. Players complain massively about bugs, the depressing technical condition of the project and demand a refund. At the same time, remasters were unavailable for launch for three days.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick shared his view on the future of video games. According to him, the next 30-40 years will be “the most exciting” for the industry.

Scottish studio Ruffian Games, known for working on Crackdown 2 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection, became part of Rockstar. As a result of the takeover and rebranding, the company received a new name — Rockstar Dundee.According to data from the UK Registration Chamber, on October 6, Ruffian Games came under the control of Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games.

The authors of Fortnite have launched a crossover with the yet—to-be-released Gearbox – Borderlands 3 game. A new location has appeared in the “royal battle” straight from the famous series of loot shooters.

The number of copies sold of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI has reached 5.5 million. It is significantly ahead of the sales rate of other games in the series.

The reason for mass shootings is again being sought in video games. This time, US President Donald Trump saw a connection between the games and two terrorist acts in the country. After that, the shares of the largest game publishers sank sharply.

It will be headed by Michael Condrey, known for Dead Space and Call of Duty.

The lawsuit against Randy Pitchford (Randy Pitchford) was filed by his former friend and colleague.

Christoph Hartmann, who previously headed 2K Games, joined Amazon Game Studios as vice president.

Grand Theft Auto V is not the highest-grossing entertainment media product in history. The initial statement of the financial information and analytics site MarketWatch was incorrect. For comparison, the revenues of the role-playing MMO World of Warcraft by 2017 reached $ 10 billion — almost twice as much as the revenue of GTA V for all time.

Grand Theft Auto V continues to sell millions 4 years after its release. Total sales of the game exceeded 85 million copies, with the last 5 million sold from May to November of this year.

Managers of Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive gaming companies criticized the White House visa reform project. In their opinion, the new laws will make it more difficult for talented personnel to enter the United States to work in the video game industry.

GTA V has received a flurry of low ratings and negative reviews from Steam users after publisher Take-Two Interactive shut down the OpenIV mod editor.

In America, more copies of Grand Theft Auto V have been sold than any other game since 1995. This is reported by the analytical company NPD Group.

The American publisher Take-Two Interactive Software has acquired the rights to the educational space simulator Kerbal Space Program.

The revenues of Take-Two Interactive Software publishing house increased by 26% and amounted to $1.7 billion at the end of fiscal year 2017, according to the company’s report.