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List of acquisitions by Take-Two Interactive

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Take-Two Interactive is an American video game holding company. They have acquired many publishers and developers since the company's foundation in 1993. Today, most of Take-Two Interactive's developers operate as subsidiaries of its publishing arms: 2K and Rockstar Games.

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Acquisitions

Date Company Parent division Country Value (USD) Derived studios Reference
September 1996 Mission Studios Take-Two Interactive  USA 2,114,478 Mission Studios [1]
April 1997 GameTek Rockstar Games  USA Rockstar Toronto [2][3]
March 1998 BMG Interactive  UK 14,200,000 Rockstar Games [4][5]
June 1998 Tarantula Studios  UK Rockstar Lincoln [6]
August 1998 Jack of All Games Take-Two Interactive  USA 16,800,000 Jack of All Games [7]
December 1998 Talonsoft  USA Talonsoft [8]
August 1999 Global Star Software  USA Global Star Software
September 1999 DMA Design Rockstar Games  UK 11,000,000 Rockstar North [9]
February 2000 Joytech Take-Two Interactive  UK Joytech [10]
March 2000 Pixel Broadband Studios  Israel Pixel Broadband Studios [11]
April 2000 Telstar Electronic Studios  UK None [12]
DVDWave.com  USA DVDWave.com [13]
May 2000 Gathering of Developers  USA Gathering of Developers [14]
July 2000 PopTop Software 2K Games  USA 5,800,000 PopTop Software [1]
January 2001 Neo Software Rockstar Games  Austria Rockstar Vienna [15]
July 2001 Techcorp Take-Two Interactive  Hong Kong Techcorp [16]
August 2002 Barking Dog Studios Rockstar Games  Canada 3,000,000 Rockstar Vancouver [17]
November 2002 Angel Studios  USA 34,700,000 Rockstar San Diego [18][1]
March 2003 Frog City Software 2K Games  USA Frog City Software
April 2003 Cat Daddy Games  USA Cat Daddy Games
September 2003 TDK Mediactive Take-Two Interactive  USA 22,700,000 Take-Two Licensing [19]
April 2004 Möbius Entertainment Rockstar Games  UK Rockstar Leeds [20]
September 2004 Venom Games 2K Games  UK Venom Games [21]
October 2004 Access Software  USA Indie Built [22][23]
January 2005 Visual Concepts
Kush Games		  USA 32,200,000 Visual Concepts
2K Los Angeles		 [24][25]
June 2005 PAM Software  France 11,400,000 PAM Software [24]
November 2005 Firaxis Games  USA 27,000,000 Firaxis Games [26][25]
January 2006 Irrational Games  USA 10,000,000 Irrational Games
2K Australia		 [27][25]
January 2008 Illusion Softworks  Czech Republic 2K Czech [28][29]
April 2008 Mad Doc Software Rockstar Games  UK Rockstar New England [30]
February 2016 Social Point Take-Two Interactive  Spain 250,000,000 Social Point [31]
May 2019 Dhruva Interactive Rockstar Games  India 7,900,000 Rockstar India [A] [32]
August 2020 Playdots Take-Two Interactive  USA 192,000,000 Playdots [33]
October 2020 Ruffian Games Rockstar Games  UK Rockstar Dundee [34]
March 2021 HB Studios 2K Games  Canada HB Studios [35]
HookBang's gaming division  USA Visual Concepts Austin [36]
June 2021 Nordeus Take-Two Interactive  Serbia 378,000,000 Nordeus [37]
July 2021 Dynamixyz  France Dynamixyz [38]
November 2021 Elite3D
Turia Games		 2K Games  Spain 31st Union Spain [39]
November 2021 Roll7 Private Division  UK Roll7 [40]
January 2022 Zynga Zynga  USA 12,700,000,000 Chartboost
Echtra Games
NaturalMotion
Peak Games
Rollic
Small Giant Games
StarLark		 [41]
September 2022 Storemaven Zynga  Israel Storemaven [42]
March 2023 GameClub Take-Two Interactive  USA [43]
March 2024 Gearbox Entertainment 2K Games  USA 460,000,000 Gearbox Software [44]

Notes

  1. ^ Rockstar India already existed before the acquisition, with Dhruva Interactive being merged into the studio.

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