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Manhunt 3? Take-Two goes after domain name of fake snuff website it used to own

Much of the buzz surrounding Take-Two has been over the recent release of Grand Theft Auto V. What you may not know, though, is that Take-Two just filed a dispute over the domain name valiant-ent.tv, which used to be a fake snuff website used to promote the psychological horror video game Manhunt. The domain name and website were owned and operated by Rockstar Games for years, until the company let the name expire in 2011 and its new owner launched a petition site aimed at having Manhunt 3 developed. Why go after the name after more than 2 years since it changed owners? Is Manhunt 3 in the works?

ritsuka6664286d ago (Edited 4286d ago )

I loved Manhunt 1. The Piggy guy with the chainsaw haunted my nightmares as a kid lol. I would like to see a 3, but I doubt it would happen.

AliTheSnake14286d ago

Bully 2, Agent, then red dead.

Goro4286d ago

@Deceiver No, it had it's last installment in 2011, Can't see another until at least 2015-2016

DaGR8JIBRALTAR4286d ago

As a kid, you shouldn't have been allowed to play that game. SMH!

CocoWolfie4286d ago

I can see it happening somewhere in the future, but yeah i guess this could be theyre next game? who knows :p

Goro4286d ago (Edited 4286d ago )

Nice, i'm expecting the next R* game to be either Bully 2, Agent or maybe this

HeyImBen114286d ago

I don't think so. The game would probably again be so brutal, that it would be censored or banned in a lot of countries.

I think the next Rockstar game is Read Dead 3 or Agent.

Goro4286d ago

No way is Red Dead coming in 2014, It will happen maybe 2015 but most likely 2016

chinlu4286d ago

How about 1st Red Dead, then who cares. .

Bathyj4286d ago

Oh please make this happen. I know this won't be a popular opinion, but I once said I would have preferred manhunt 3 to GTA5. Luckily GTA5 turned out awesomly but I still want another manhunt over any other Rockstar game. I have my doubts though. The graphics would be to good new and the game to gory. I don't think we'll get another one. Here's hoping I'm wrong.

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Response to Recent Community Concerns About Take-Two’s Terms of Service

Take-Two: "We know there have been some concerns from Borderlands fans about Take-Two’s Terms of Service. Maintaining transparency and confidence with the community here is always our goal, and we wanted to address some of these concerns."

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Take-Two Boss Doesn’t Think AI Can Create GTA Competitor; Believes in "Human Genius" to Create Hits

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick AI can help mundane tasks in creating games but human creativity will always be needed.

1Victor76d ago

Well there’s a saying about 100 monkeys with typewriters in a room, give it a few years and you’ll see the miracles that can be done with 100 Ai in a server 🤣

Cacabunga76d ago

Great interview from a humbly powerful man! I’m sad he didn’t speak about RDR at anytime, it’s like it’s not big enough for them

ZycoFox76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

Bit of a stretch to say "human creativity" will always be needed, key word being always. Sure it makes a big difference right now, if you just let it do whatever with little/no effort you end up with lazily put together slop..

It's still early days, but tools to help develop games quicker is obviously a good thing.

anast76d ago

Give it some time and the same copy will be selling their latest AI game.

CrimsonWing6976d ago

I get the feeling he doesn’t think a lot.

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Rockstar Buys GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Developer, Renames It Rockstar Australia

Rockstar has acquired Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition developer Video Games Deluxe and renamed it Rockstar Australia.

italiangamer105d ago

Didn't even know Brendan McNamara was still in the business.

DaReapa105d ago

Seeing that he's reassociated himself with R*, it would be nice to see a follow-up to L.A. Noire.

chicken_in_the_corn105d ago

I doubt it will happen. Rockstar Australia will probably be developing Rockstar's next game, with the rest of Rockstar's studios.

Dirty_Lemons104d ago (Edited 104d ago )

Hey Alan Wake II showed it might be many years but sequels are always possible! NY Noire? 🤔

Profchaos105d ago (Edited 105d ago )

He really shouldn't be guy is scum I wonder if he still runs it like a boys club if your not from the UK your on the outside and disposable meanwhile bashing Aussies and breaking our labour laws what he did during the development of LA noire is extremely illegal here and he got lucky he was able to intimidate his staff into not reporting it

goken105d ago (Edited 105d ago )

Sounds bad
I am not familiar with the incident, so i honestly do not know.
But… if whatever he did was not reported, then where did this information come from?

Profchaos105d ago

@goken
This is a great video that explains everything that went wrong with la noire Rockstar and team Bondi during la noires development

https://youtu.be/DN-Hv3pnVz...

isarai105d ago

Probably the most baffling acquisition ive ever seen, they absolutely screwed up something that should've been so simple, and then took so long to fix it that R* themselves fixed it for them and took their studio name off the splash screen......and so they acquired them?

Christopher105d ago

Keep the talent that is familiar with your engine(s), get rid of the bad management.

red2tango105d ago

It's literally in the article:

"It’s not to be confused with Grove Street Games, which came under fire for the poor quality of the original Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in 2021"

isarai105d ago (Edited 105d ago )

Dayum im dumb, i skimmed the article qnd didn't see that 😅

Koneesha105d ago

Yeah, these are the people that Rockstar brought into to fix the trilogy not Grove Street Games who originally made it and messed it up!

-Foxtrot105d ago

I don’t get it

I’d rather they forget this game happened and tried again a few years later when next gen rolls around with some proper remasters

Maybe actually spend some money to renew the music licenses for the songs they removed

Profchaos105d ago

This isn't Grove St games it's the team that fixed Grove St games mess in the recent Netflix Android and iOS versions and ported the improvements to the console recently.

Game is significantly overhauled today as a result.

-Foxtrot105d ago

It’s an improvement but I still don’t think it’s the best it could have been.

Profchaos105d ago

True it's an improvement but they did have to work with what they had and that was a ultra janky port of a mobile game thrown together by like 4 people per game.

Seriously in the old version after completing vice city I saw Grove St employees were listed and there was only 4 people in it there's bigger teams out there working on homebrew games.

KwietStorm_BLM105d ago

And still has Grove Street Games scrubbed from the credits.

DafunkyRebel105d ago (Edited 105d ago )

Rockstar saw the absolute botch of the Definitive Edition of their most beloved games as a personal insult and decided to destroy the studio responsible and renamed it entirely. Probably fired a bunch of people too. Its Rockstar's legacy they tarnished so I would be absolutely furious if I was an executive over there

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