Visual Concepts

Visual Concepts
Subsidiary of 2K Sports
Industry Computer and video games
Interactive entertainment
Headquarters Novato, California, United States
Products Sports games
Owner Take-Two Interactive
Parent 2K Sports
Website Official website

Visual Concepts is a California-based video game developer best known for developing Take-Two Interactive's 2K series of sports games. After the success of the series, they were acquired by Sega and became a wholly owned studio with Sega, usually termed a first-party developer. However, Sega at the time termed non-internal studios that the company either set up or purchased as "1.5 development studios" in order to differentiate them from their own internal studios. In January 2005, Visual Concepts was sold to Take-Two Interactive along with their wholly owned subsidiary Kush Games. With the purchase of Visual Concepts, Take-Two created 2K Games, a new publishing label.[1] Although the company started out developing quirky titles such as Lester the Unlikely, development efforts are now primarily centered on sports titles such as Basketball and Wrestling.

Games developed by Visual Concepts[2]

2K/WWE game series

2K/ESPN game series

Other games

PlayStation 3

Xbox 360

PlayStation 2

GameCube

Xbox

Dreamcast

PlayStation

Sega Saturn

SNES/Genesis/Mega Drive

Game Boy

NES

DOS

Apple IIGS

References

  1. ↑ Sharma, Dinesh (2005-01-25). "Take-Two takes Sega's sports-game studios". CNET. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  2. ↑ Games Developed by Visual Concepts www.ign.com