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The biggest gaming controversies of 2024

Layoffs, politics, and the culture wars dominated 2024, but there were plenty of regular, everyday goofs, too.

PC Gamer

Take-Two boss gets philosophical about 'entropy' and life after Grand Theft Auto: 'If we're not trying new things ... we're really running the risk of burning the furniture to heat the house'

Mountains crumble, oceans boil, stars flare and die—the one constant is Strauss Zelnick remains ready to make bank.

PC Gamer

6 months after Take-Two's CEO said "we didn't shutter those studios," Take-Two confirms it shuttered the Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome studios

Roll7 and Intercept Games were indeed shut down

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Take-Two CEO says Grand Theft Auto 6 is on track for 'fall' next year, GTA 5 has sold over 205 million, and 'PC will be more and more a part of [our] business going forward'

Also rather politely calls the Borderlands movie "disappointing."

PC Gamer

Boss of Rockstar owner Take-Two says "never count Nintendo out" as Switch 2 inches closer: "We support successful platforms"

We're listening

GamesRadar

Take-Two is selling Outer Worlds publisher Private Division because it says it's in the "business of making great big hits" like Grand Theft Auto — but was Xbox the buyer?

Grand Theft Auto owner Take-Two Interactive has sold off the Private Division publishing label to an unknown party, including the rights to its upcoming games.

Windows Central

GTA 6's corporate overlord reveals that he's looking forward to 'a more sensible FTC' under the Trump administration because sometimes 'deregulation can be a positive'

"I do believe that the FTC was misguided during President Biden's term."

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Take-Two's CEO generously calls the cataclysmically bad Borderlands movie 'disappointing', but it still ended up helping sales of the games

"I don't think it hurt at all".

PC Gamer

As GTA 5 passes 205 million units sold, publisher Take-Two says hit titles "decay" and if they're not making new IP, they're "burning the furniture to heat the house"

"Everything degrades"

GamesRadar

Borderlands 4's 2025 release window just got narrowed down as Gearbox owner says it won't release before April, but also won't clash with GTA 6

2025 is set to be very busy for game releases

GamesRadar

GTA 6 publisher says it "isn't complicated for us to support" PC and, great, cool, so where's that GTA 6 PC announcement?

GTA 6 is only confirmed for PS5 and Xbox Series X, but Take-Two says "PC will continue to be a more and more important part of the console business"

GamesRadar

Take-Two has sold Private Division to an unnamed buyer: 'We are top-ten hit makers around here,' and Private Division wasn't making them

The publisher has also finally confirmed that Intercept Games and Roll7 are in fact closed.

PC Gamer

The Borderlands movie's $90m box office failure "was indeed disappointing," but it did still help sell some old Borderlands games

The publisher's CEO has washed his hands of the commercial failure

GamesRadar

Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not

Delays have hit every major Rockstar open world game since 2004.

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"Please pirate it because none of us work at the company that owns this anymore": Dev of stylish skating shooter marks its 2-year anniversary with a call for piracy

Rollerdrome dev Roll7 was reportedly shut down by Take-Two earlier this year, though the publisher denies doing so

PC Gamer

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is still holding out hope for the Borderlands movie: 'Let's give the film a chance'

The Borderlands movie sucks, but Zelnick hopes people will go see it anyway.

GamesRadar

GTA 6's 2025 release is still on the cards, and while user content won't be the dominant force, its publisher is already "excited" about modding

Take-Two's CEO doesn't think user-generated content is the future

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Rockstar Games owner predicts AI, which has already impacted jobs, won't steal any jobs: "It's actually crazy. It's not going to make people irrelevant"

The Take-Two CEO think AI could make development more efficient

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Take-Two CEO: The idea that AI will make everyone unemployed is 'the stupidest thing I've ever heard'

Strauss Zelnick says generative AI isn't going to take jobs away from people, "it's going to change the nature of certain forms of employment, and that's a good thing."

GamesRadar

CEO of Rockstar owner sizes up GTA 6: "The world's in a different place than it was when we launched GTA 5," and the sequel could be "unmatched in the industry"

"The big and better only get bigger and better, and the mediocre go away"

GamesRadar

GTA 6's fate on PC isn't "set in stone" says CEO of Rockstar Games owner, but "the right strategy for our business is to be where the consumer is"

Strauss Zelnick hasn't confirmed whether GTA 6 will come to PC or not

PC Gamer

Kerbal Space Program developers confirm layoffs are coming at the end of June

The number of layoffs is not yet confirmed, but it sounds like the entire team is being let go.

TechRadar

Take-Two is "highly confident" that Grand Theft Auto 6 will release in autumn 2025

Grand Theft Auto 6's publisher Take-Two Interactive is "highly-confident" in the game's autumn 2025 release window.

GamesRadar

GTA 6 publisher CEO says he wants to "vastly over-deliver" on price and offer "more value than what we charge"

GTA 6's publisher was the first to charge $70 for new games

PC Gamer

Take-Two CEO says he's 'highly confident' GTA6 will make its release window, gets all philosophical about it: 'Perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective'

Says if you want to know what's new… just watch the trailer again.

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