2K Games
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| legal form | Take 2 Interactive subsidiary |
| founding | January 25, 2005 |
| Seat | Novato , California , USA |
| management | Christoph Hartmann (President) David Ismailer ( COO ) |
| Website | www.2k.com |
2K Games is one in January 2005 in Manhattan / New York based distribution label of computer games - Publishers Take 2 Interactive . The headquarters moved to Novato , California in 2007 .
Companies
2K Games comprises a total of three departments, 2K , 2K Sports and 2K Play . Full price games of all stripes (e.g. shooter, strategy), as well as sports games or casual games & edutainment software are sold under this name .
2K Games itself can be seen as the successor to Gathering of Developers , as 2K Games' first games should appear before Gathering, including, for example, Close Combat: First to Fight and Stronghold 2 .
2K Sports emerged from ESPN Video Games with the takeover of Visual Concepts and Kush Games. The 2K Play division , which was only founded in September 2007, emerged from Global Star Software , which was previously active as the casual games / low-price label Take 2 Interactives.
Internal development studios
- 2K China (founded in Shanghai and Hangzhou in mid-2006)
- 2K Czech (formerly Illusion Softworks; acquired in January 2008)
- 2K Marin (founded December 2007; includes developers from 2K Australia and formerly 2K Boston who split off due to differences with leader, Ken Levine); 2010 Renaming and incorporation of 2k Australia (previously Irrational Games) into 2k Marin.
- Firaxis Games (acquired in November 2005)
- Irrational Games (acquired in January 2006 with two development studios in Boston and Canberra (Australia); 2007 split into 2k Boston and 2k Australia, 2010 renaming of 2k Boston to Irrational Games)
- Take-Two Licensing (formerly TDK Mediactive; part of Take 2 Interactive even before 2K Games was founded)
- Kush Games
- Power and Magic Development
- Venom Games
- Visual Concepts
Closed development studios
- Frog City Software (already part of Take 2 Interactive before 2K Games was founded; probably merged with Firaxis)
- Indie Built ( sold to Take 2 by Microsoft in December 2004 ; closed at the end of April 2006)
- PopTop Software (already part of Take 2 Interactive before 2K Games was founded; merged with Firaxis at the beginning of 2007)
Most employees were offered positions in other Take 2 studios. The merger of Frog City Software and Firaxis Games has never been officially confirmed, but is generally accepted: on the one hand by the discontinuation of the Snow project , on the other hand by the close connection between Frog City and PopTop Software and the fact that the studio's official website www.frogcity. com is no longer available.
Publications
| 2K games title | |||
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| Surname | developer | publication | Platforms |
| BioShock | Irrational Games | August 2007 | Windows , X360 |
| 2K Marin | October 2008 | PS3 | |
| BioShock 2 | 2K Marin | February 2010 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| BioShock Infinite | Irrational Games | March 2013 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| Borderlands | Gearbox software | October 2009 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| Borderlands 2 | Gearbox software | September 2012 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth |
Headfirst Productions , Bethesda Softworks |
October 2005 | Xbox 1 |
| CivCity: Rome | Firefly Studios , Firaxis Games | July 2006 | Windows |
| Close Combat : First to Fight |
Destineer Studios , Atomic Games |
April 2005 | Windows , Xbox , OS X |
| Dungeon Siege II: Broken World | Gas Powered Games | August / September 2006 | Windows |
| Dungeon Siege II: Deluxe Edition (contains Dungeon Siege II , the add-on and bonus material) | Gas Powered Games | December 2006 | Windows |
| Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony | SuperVillain Studios, Gas Powered Games |
January 2007 | PSP |
| Family Guy - The Video Game! | High voltage software | October 2006 | PS2 , PSP , Xbox |
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | 7 studios | July 2007 | PS2 , PS3 , X360 , NDS , Wii |
| Ghost rider | Climax | February 2007 | PS2 , PSP , GBA |
| Jade Empire : Special Edition | BioWare , LTI Gray Matter | February 2007 | Windows 2 |
| Mafia II | 2K Czech | August 2010 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| Prey | Human Head , 3D Realms | July 2006 | Windows |
| Venom Games | X360 | ||
| Aspyr Media | January 2007 | OS X | |
| Serious Sam II | Croteam | October 2005 | Windows , Xbox |
| Shattered Union | PopTop software | October 2005 | Windows , Xbox |
| Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete | Firaxis Games | July 2005 | Windows , OS X 3 |
| Sid Meier's Civilization IV | Firaxis Games | October 2005 | Windows , OS X |
| Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords ( Add-on ) | Firaxis Games | July 2006 | Windows , OS X |
| Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (Add-on) | Firaxis Games | July 2007 | Windows |
| Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition (contains Civ4 , the add-on Warlords and bonus material) | Firaxis Games | July 2007 | Windows |
| Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete (contains Civ4 , the add-ons Warlords and Beyond the Sword as well as bonus material) | Firaxis Games | October 2007 | Windows |
| Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization | Firaxis Games | Fall 2008 | Windows |
| Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles (contains Civilization I - IV , the add-ons from Civ2 & Civ3 , Civ2: Test of Time and bonus material) | Firaxis Games | October 2006 | Windows |
| Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution | Firaxis Games | June / July 2008 | PS3 , X360 , NDS |
| Sid Meier's Pirates! | Firaxis Games | July 2005 | Windows , Xbox 3 |
| Full Fat Productions | January 2007 | PSP | |
| Sid Meier's Railroads! | Firaxis Games | October 2006 | Windows |
| Spec Ops: The Line | Yager Development | June 2012 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| Stronghold 2 | Firefly Studios | April 2005 | Windows |
| Stronghold Legends | Firefly Studios | October 2006 | Windows |
| The Bureau: XCOM Declassified | 2K Marin | August 2013 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code | The Collective | May 2006 | Windows , PS2 , Xbox |
| The Darkness | Starbreeze Studios | July 2007 | PS3 , X360 |
| The Darkness 2 | Digital extremes | February 2012 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Bethesda Softworks | March 2006 | Windows , X360 4 |
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles (Add-on) | Bethesda Softworks | March 2007 | Windows , X360 |
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Game of the Year Edition (includes Oblivion , Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine ) | Bethesda Softworks | September 2007 | Windows , X360 4 |
| Vietcong 2 | Pterodon , Illusion Softworks | October 2005 | Windows |
| XCOM: Enemy Unknown | Firaxis Games | October 2012 | Windows , PS3 , X360 |
| Zathura | High voltage software | November 2005 | PS2 , Xbox |
| Development stopped | |||
| Surname | developer | Reason for hiring | |
| Snow | Frog City software | Presumably discontinued because of the controversial content and expected problems. | |
| 2K Sports title | |||
| Surname | developer | publication | Platforms |
| All-Pro Football 2K8 | Visual Concepts | July 2007 | PS3 , X360 |
| Amped 3 | Indie Built | December 2005 | X360 |
| College Hoops 2K5 - 2K7 | Visual Concepts | Late summer d. Previous year to spring d. each year | common consoles |
| Don King presents Prizefighter | Venom Games | June 2008 | X360 , NDS , Wii |
| Major League Baseball 2K5 - 2K8 | Kush Games | Spring of the respective year | common consoles |
| Major League Baseball 2K9 | Visual Concepts | March 3, 2009 | PS2 , PS3 , X360 , PSP , Wii , PC |
| Major League Baseball 2K10 | Visual Concepts | March 2, 2010 | PS2 , PS3 , X360 , PSP , Wii , NDS , PC |
| Major League Baseball 2K11 | Visual Concepts | March 8, 2011 | PS2 , PS3 , X360 , PSP , Wii , NDS , PC |
| Major League Baseball 2K8 Fantasy All-Stars | Deep Fried Entertainment | April 2008 | NDS |
| MLB Power Pros | Konami | PS2 , Wii | |
| NBA 2K5 - NBA 2K17 | Visual Concepts | Late summer / autumn of the previous year | PS2 , PS3 , X360 , Xbox One , PSP , Wii , Windows and PS4 |
| NFL 2K5 | Visual Concepts | July 2004 | PS2 , Xbox |
| NHL 2K5 - 2K9 | Kush Games | Late summer / autumn of the previous year | common consoles |
| The bigs | Blue Castle Games | June 2007 | PS2 , PS3 , PSP , X360 |
| October 2007 | Wii | ||
| Top spin | Power and Magic , Indie Built | September 2005 | PS2 5 |
| Top Spin 2 | Power and Magic, Indie Built | April 2006 | X360 , GBA , NDS |
| Aspyr Media | November 2006 | Windows | |
| Top Spin 3 | Power and Magic, 2K China | June 2008 | PS3 , X360 , NDS , Wii |
| Top Spin 4 | 2K Czech | March 2011 | PS3 , X360 , Wii |
| Torino 2006 | 49Games | January 2006 | Windows , PS2 , Xbox |
| World Poker Tour | October 2005 | PS2 , Xbox , GBA | |
| April 2006 | PSP | ||
| WWE 2K14 | Yuke's Visual Concepts | 4th quarter 2013 | PS3 , X360 |
| WWE 2K15 | Yuke's Visual Concepts | 4th quarter 2014 | PS3 , PS4 , X360 , Xbox One , Windows |
| WWE 2K16 | Yuke's Visual Concepts | 4th quarter 2015 | PS3 , PS4 , X360 , Xbox One , Windows |
| WWE 2K17 | Yuke's Visual Concepts | 4th quarter 2016 | PS3 , PS4 , X360 , Xbox One |
| WWE 2K18 | Yuke's Visual Concepts | 4th quarter 2017 | PS4 , Xbox One , Microsoft Windows , Nintendo Switch |
| WWE 2K19 | Yuke's Visual Concepts | 4th quarter 2018 | PS4 , Xbox One , Microsoft Windows |
| 2K play title | |||
| Surname | developer | publication | Platforms |
| Carnival: The fairground party | Cat Daddy Games | October 2007 | Wii |
Web links
- Official website (English)
- 2K Play (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Take-2 press release of January 25, 2006: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Announces Formation of 2K Games Publishing Label (English)
- ^ North Bay Business Journal
- ^ Take-2 press release of September 10, 2007: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Announces New 2K Play Publishing Label and Video Game Partnership with Kid's Entertainment Leader, Nickelodeon
- ↑ Take-2 press release of May 9, 2006: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Establishes 2K Shanghai (English) - slightly contradicting information on www.2kchina.com/. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 21, 2012 ; accessed on January 14, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Take-2 press release, January 8, 2008: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Acquires Illusion Softworks (English)
- ↑ Take-2 press release, December 17, 2007: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Announces Formation of 2K Marin (English)
- ↑ Take-2 press release of November 7, 2005: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Acquires Firaxis Games (English)
- ↑ Take-2 press release of January 9, 2006: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Acquires Irrational Games (English)
- ^ Curt Feldman: Take-Two helps Microsoft get out of sports game. In: GameSpot . CBS Corporation , December 16, 2004, accessed February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Brendan Sinclair: Indie Built corporately dismantled. In: GameSpot . CBS Corporation , May 1, 2006, accessed February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Tor Thorsen: PopTop folded into Firaxis? In: GameSpot . CBS Corporation , archived from the original on June 16, 2009 ; accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Tim Surette: Snow falls off release list. In: GameSpot . CBS Corporation , June 6, 2006, accessed February 1, 2016 .
