Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick.
Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick.
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Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick is bullish on GTA VI, Take-Two’s slate and the gaming economy | interview

I spoke with Strauss Zelnick, CEO and chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, today about the company’s latest quarterly earnings report for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.

Take-Two beat earnings estimates as well as its own guidance for the first fiscal quarter, with net bookings of $1.42 billion about 17% above the same quarter a year ago.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.