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Starbucks’ prices look positively reasonable when you consider how much a little “Hot Coffee” cost Take-Two Interactive. The Grand Theft Auto publisher announced on September 1, 2009, that it has reached a $20 million settlement with investors in the class-action lawsuit filed over the Hot Coffee scandal surrounding Grand Theft… Continue Reading »

Los Angeles Lakers’ star and 2009 NBA Finals’ MVP Kobe Bryant is the cover boy for Take-Two’s NBA 2K10. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, he makes a pretty effective pitchman as well. Bryant told the LA Times this latest incarnation of digital basketball is so realistic… Continue Reading »

Game-to-film translations begin with an uphill battle to, well, not suck. Universal Studios’ adaptation of Bioshockhttp://www.gamertell.com/gaming/tag/bioshock/ has hit some major stumbling blocks, including a change in director. The movie treatment of the hit Take-Two game was initially to be helmed by Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean… Continue Reading »

The first Xbox 360-exclusive episode of Grand Theft Auto IV, titled The Lost and the Damned, has been well received by critics and fans since its February 2009 release. Wedbush Morgan Analyst Michael Pachter estimates L&D has sold more than 1 million copies to date and will reach the 2… Continue Reading »

National Public Radio is taking a mental holiday on December 31, 2008, with most of its shows airing 2008 highlights and recaps. For the year ender of Talk of the Nation (check local listings for broadcast times), hosted by Neal Conan, NPR has been promoting a pop culture recap featuring… Continue Reading »

Take-Two Interactive released its Q3 2008 financial report today (September 4, 2008) which showed promising results. Besides the companies rise in net income to the tune of $51.8 million, Take-Two confirmed two big titles for its fiscal 2009 year which starts November 1, 2008,and ends on January 31, 2009: We… Continue Reading »

Grand Theft Auto IV was recently removed from store shelves in Thailand by the order of New Era Interactive, one of Asia’s largest game distributors. The reason is that Polwat Chino, a 19-year-old boy, killed a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game. Ah. Yet another… Continue Reading »

Take- Two’s press conference (10:45 a.m. PT, July 16, 2008) was shaping up to be an exciting start to day three of E3 considering they weren’t going to talk about a movie for an hour (I’m looking at you Capcom).  With the announcement of the Grand Theft Auto series coming… Continue Reading »

Rockstar’s recently released epic, Grand Theft Auto IV, has been on the receiving end of a great deal of controversy for quite a while but parent company Take-Two Interactive is finally fighting back. Take-Two is suing the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for pulling all GTA IV related ads from buses… Continue Reading »

While the streets might be safe for a few weeks while everyone is inside playing Grand Theft Auto IV: Vice City, it’s only a matter of time before hooligans decide to stretch their thumbs and break out of the family den or dilapidated tenement apartment (adorned with a 42 in.… Continue Reading »