Board of six is approved to take over control of company at shareholders' meeting; one more director added to board by new members.
Take-Two announced the results of the shareholders' vote, and all six newly nominated board of director candidates were approved. Taking on the role of chairman will be Zelnick, former CEO of BMG Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics.
Grover C. Brown, who was an independent director, was also elected to the board of directors in a meeting following the shareholders meeting, bringing the total number of members of the new board of directors to seven.
Those expecting some sort of flare up at the meeting likely left disappointed. The event went without a hitch and lasted less than 20 minutes. No shareholders chose to participate in the question-and-answer session.
Take-Two's management has suffered a number of high-profile setbacks in recent years. The most notorious misstep was the inclusion of hidden sexually themed minigames in its best-selling game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The company then got into more hot water when it was found that employees had received improperly backdated stock options.
Take-Two stock was up $0.24 to $21.10 on the day, a change of just over 1 percent.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
As long as this whole Take-Two affair doesn't affect GTA IV, I'm sure most people won't be too fussed by it!