Categories Posted inin Business How Watch Dogs' performance on PS4 and Xbox One is helping EA, Activision, and Take-Two Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 17, 2014 3 min Around 75 percent of Watch Dogs' sales were on the new systems, and Wall Street likes what that means for publishers with big games coming later this year. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: My straight-shooting impressions from another E3 Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 13, 2014 5 min A lot of people asked me what I thought about the show's games, even before it was over. These are the answers I came up with. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Red Dead — like Grand Theft Auto — is one of publisher Take-Two's 'permanent' franchises Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 30, 2014 2 min Four year have passed since the last Red Dead, but that's exactly how Take-Two likes it. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business 2K Games reveals new hunters to track, burn, and kill the creature in Evolve (hands-on preview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 22, 2014 5 min The nemesis of the hunted creature in Evolve may very well be Daisy the pet. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Beware the city-devouring worms in Civilization: Beyond Earth (hands-on preview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 20, 2014 4 min It takes coordinated attacks to bring down the siege worms in Civilization: Beyond Earth. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Grand Theft Auto publisher nearly doubles its revenue year-over-year Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 13, 2014 1 min Take-Two had record revenue and earnings in 2014. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Grand Theft Auto V hits 33M units sold, or almost $2B in retail sales Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 13, 2014 1 min The game was the fastest to hit $1 billion in video game history. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why is Take-Two’s boss so happy? Grand Theft Auto Online is his ‘gift that keeps on giving’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 10, 2014 2 min Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick appeared on Fox Business News to talk about Grand Theft Auto V. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Who's designing the next batch of 'capture' missions in Grand Theft Auto Online? You are Posted byby GamesBeat April 8, 2014 1 min Also, see a hilarious video of an incredibly unfortunate 30 seconds for this GTA Online player. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business BioShock franchise isn’t dead even after Irrational closure and underwhelming Infinite sales Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 21, 2014 2 min Irrational spent five years making BioShock Infinite. The disc version of Minecraft for Xbox 360 outsold it. Now, Irrational is no more. Continue Reading 2 min