E3 2008: Press conference, keynote schedule
It’s time to gear up and mentally prepare for the onslaught of gaming goodness known as E3 2008.
To get started, here’s a list of the announced company press conferences. We’ll be Live Blogging several of these conferences, so watch the site for constant updates all next week. For a taste, check out our 2007 coverage.
Click through for the full press release schedule…
Take-Two fights back after GTA IV ads pulled
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 and transit displays throughout the city just days after they were put up on April 22. The ad campaign was supposed to last for six weeks.
Take-Two claims that by…
Take-Two receives a Wells notice from SEC
Poor, naughty Take-Two. The game company that gamers love and everyone else loves to hate has been served with a Wells notice by the SEC. That basically means T2 has an opportunity to try and convince the US Securities and Exchange Commission to not file charges against for previous stock practices.
T2 received the notice on August 9, 2007, months after T2 announced in April 2007 that it was being investigated by the SEC. GameDaily points out that Take-Two’s stock has fallen 32 percent in the last three months, certainly as a result of the shareholder coup, the Manhunt 2 international controversies and the delayed release of Grand Theft Auto IV.
From the SEC filing, T2 indicated it expects “to resolve this investigation by means of a settlement rather than a contested litigation of charges ... the ‘Wells’ call represents a significant step forward towards that resolution.“
Read [Reuters] Via [GameDaily] Also Read [Joystiq]
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