Take-Two CEO says competitors 'burn off their franchises by annualizing them'
You may want a new Grand Theft Auto every year, but giving development studios time to percolate maintains their quality.
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You may want a new Grand Theft Auto every year, but giving development studios time to percolate maintains their quality.
Three big-budget publishers are coming around to the idea of refreshed consoles.
Red Dead Redemption may get a sequel at some point, as Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick recently listed it as a "permanent franchise" among more sequel-heavy series like Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands.
BioShock series creator Ken Levine is closing the doors to Irrational Games and will take an unspecified new role with Take-Two. Most of the remainder of Irrational's staff will be laid off.
2K Games is working on a pair of Complete Editions for Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The former will release tomorrow, while the latter arrives on March 4 with XCOM: Enemy Within packed in.
2K Sports has quietly invoked the mercy rule on itself, eliminating any signs of the MLB 2K series from existence, leaving MLB: The Show as the last Major League Baseball series standing.
2K Games and Firaxis have announced two new "Scrambled" Civilization 5 map packs inspired by the Scramble for Africa scenario in Brave New World. One is available now, and the other is coming November 5.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified shows the potential to be a mixture of third-person shooting and tactical XCOM strategy, but winds up falling short in both departments.
One intrepid modder has produced the leaders Civilization 5 clearly always needed: Beavis and Butthead.
"Amazingly enough, we worked throughout that whole time," said franchise creative director Cory Ledesma, who came to 2K Sports from THQ with most of the WWE team. "I think maybe we were only down half a day as we moved offices, or something like that; it was a really, really seamless transition."