Sega Done with Sports, Take-Two Launches Label

Gamespot has the news that Take-Two Interactive's MLB deal has already had repercussions. Sega has gotten out of the sports business, selling their internal sports studio Visual Concepts to Take-Two for a bargain price. This newest addition in hand, Take-Two has turned around and launched a new game label entitled 2K games. From the article: "2K Games will incorporate Take-Two's internally owned development studios Visual Concepts, Kush Games, Indie Built, Venom Games, PopTop Software, and Frog City Software, as well as the team at Take-Two Licensing..." This new label will have a subsidiary specifically tuned for sports titles. As expected, it appears the sports game market is now going to fall to only a few companies. Commentary on Greg Costikyan's Blog

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Not again

[homeobocks]

The site is already slashdotted . . . except in Nebraska.

Geeks in Management?

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"Pushed" Into Management (Score:5 Bananas) by rafael_es_son (669255) on 2005.01.25 16:44 (#11472771)

You're a lieutenant in the Army now!

Re " Management Books" [amazon.com]: Unless you've been "pushed" into becoming an Accounting Manager, after re-reading "The Wealth of Nations [amazon.com]" by Adam Smith [wikipedia.org], you may substitute them with anything from the "Self-Help", "New Age" or equivalent sections [amazon.com] of your local Barnes and Noble, or Amazon.com. These type of reading material should prove to be more entertaining while providing an equivalent amount of substance.

Works on human-manipulation techniques [humboldt.edu] -to be applied to the management of your "normals"- tend to be quite popular among managers even when the results of its application to intelligent human beings tend result in somthing risible. If contact with clients is mandated you might want to pick up a book or two on the subject of Illusionism [amazon.com].

If your topmost priority in life -besides food and shelter- is the acquisition of better-than- normal-quantities of money, you will feel very confortable in your new position. Anything else (including technical excellence of your supervised normal's work) must be second-to-profit unless you work for Google or plan to be a considered a mediocre manager. Referring to other humans you work with as "normals" -dare I not ask "As opposed to what?"- reflects an excellent disposition for management work.

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