List of acquisitions by Take-Two Interactive

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.

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 [upper-alpha 1]	[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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