2K Sports

2K Sports
Type Subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive
Industry Computer and video games
Interactive entertainment
Founded January 25, 2005
Headquarters New York City, New York, United States
Key people Christoph Hartmann (President)
Products Sports games
Owner(s) Take-Two Interactive
Parent Take-Two Interactive
Website www.2ksports.com

2K Sports is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. It comprises a single development studio, Visual Concepts, which was purchased from Sega in the year 2005. 2K Sports mainly develops and publishes American sports video games such as NBA 2K series. 2K Sports mainly competes with EA Sports.

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History

In January 2005, Take-Two Interactive acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Visual Concepts and its wholly owned subsidiary, Kush Games, the developers of some of the company's sports titles, and certain intellectual property rights associated with these products from Sega for US$24 million.[1]

2K Sports, which in late 2004 purchased development studio Indie Built from Microsoft Game Studios, closed down the Indie Built studio in April 2006. Indie Built was known for its work on the Amped, Links, and Top Spin series. However, 2K Sports still owns the rights to these intellectual properties. 2K Sports has the exclusive third-party rights to produce Major League Baseball and World Poker Tour games.

On October 20, 2008, 2K Sports released their first PC game, NBA 2K9. Their second, MLB Front Office Manager was released on January 26, 2009.

Games

Upcoming games

2012

TBD

Possibly Unicycle 2012

Internal developers

Current

Defunct

References

  1. ^ "Buy! Buy! Buy! EA and Take 2 battle for exclusive licensing supremacy". GamePro (199): 20. April 2005. 

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