2K Games Adds More Titles to its Roster

Take-Two publishing's 2K Games label, unveiled late last month, has acquired yet more hit titles to go alongside the MLB and Civilization franchises, according to Gamespot. Elder Scrolls IV, sequel to the hit Morrowind, and long anticipated Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth will be copublished with Bethesda Softworks.

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Damn

[merdark]

I really hope this doesn't mean that Elderscrolls IV will be "dumbed down" for the masses. : (

I don't have a lot of faith in mega media companies.

Re:Damn

[gl4ss]

well.. iirc elderscrolls III was published by ubisoft.

at least now they have a shot of avoiding ubi-bug-of-death.

morrowind rocks though.. i hope they manage to make elderscrolls IV as good as it..

hey, wait a second - i really hope that they fail, i got some work to do and should be sleeping already!

Re:Damn

[Destoo]

Morrowind rocked, but was so empty..

I guess I'll try a few of these mods first chance I get.
Some look pretty interesting.
A lot of Powergaming stuff, but some nice effect too, because what all RPGs need is more glowmapping on trees.

Re:Damn

[Dachannien]

TES3 was published by Bethesda in a solo effort. I really don't get why they need Take Two to help them out with TES4 or CoC. I am glad that Bethesda is keeping all of its creative control for TES4, though.

Hopefully, this doesn't mean that TES4 will be distributed with intrusive copy protection (such as Starforce, which installs device drivers on your machine). However, having Take Two rather than Bethesda as publisher makes me worry about this a bit more.

Re:Damn

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear moron,
Elderscrolls IV is not akin to Plato. It's a fucking video game. Don't feel that you're special or intelligent because you play it. As point of fact, you are utterly average in everything you do. Go read some poetry at a Barnes and Noble wearing your beret and continue to not be able to talk to women.

yours truly,
Phillip

Re:Damn

[Haeleth]

TES3 was published by Bethesda in a solo effort.

Then what is this Ubisoft logo doing on the front of my Morrowind box?

Re:Damn

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, looks like some little munchikin is feeling inadequate. Go to mommy for a hug kid.

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Electronic Arts (EA) announced today that it has been in talks with Gandalf, Merlin, and Harry Potter to secure the exclusive rights to use magic or any other arcane-related spellcasting in videogames. This would deal a big blow to Take-Two, who recently signed on to publish Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV game, which relies heavily on the use of magic in its game design.

Re:In other news...

[numbski]

Microsoft bought exclusive rights to use of "Damn Dirty Bastards". This could be a severe blow to (SCO|EA|Canopy Group) as a large deal of their business...

Do you mean "cthulhu"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you mean "cthulhu"?

Re:Do you mean "cthulhu"?

[Destoo]

If you mispronounce his name, which takes a double jointed jaw along with at least two tongues to pronounce correctly, he'll come up and destroy us all.

That, or he'll have Uwe Boll make a movie about these games too.

Cthulu...

[game kid]

and long anticipated Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth will be copublished with Bethesda Softworks.

So that's the game where I learn how to pronounce Cthulu (or, perhaps, Cthulhu )?

(Seriously...it does look to be interesting.)

Re:Cthulu...

[chrish]

I dunno... it looked very interesting a few years ago (I seem to remember looking at the first preview of Dark Corners of the Earth back when I still used BeOS), but games that take "forever" to develop usually don't turn out that great.

Still, I've got my fingers crossed for this one, it's hard to find scary games.

o.O

[Anonymous Coward]

return -EDONTCARE;

Don't know if this cuts it

[superpulpsicle]

As much as I want Take-Two to kick ass. This list is pretty mild. They really need some firepower to go up against the competition.

MLB - A debate-able 3rd rank in sports games sales.

Civilization franchises - Didn't this live in the Sims shadow.

Elder Scrolls IV Morrowind - The original was never big enough to top final fantasy series.

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth - Don't know much about. Probably can't aim at the masses?

Re:Don't know if this cuts it

[thrash242]

That's Elder Scrolls *III* : Morrowind. Elder Scrolls IV is not out yet.

What do you mean by the original? Arena?

Publisher != Developer

[obeythefist]

Although quite often publishers have made some bad decisions with regards to games, in this case the Developer is a very strong one with an excellent record.

Bethesda have made some great, but very under-rated games, from Terminator 2029 through to Elder Scrolls and so on. I have high expectations from these up and coming games.

New Fallout?

[AntipodeanJim]

"No other Bethesda games were mentioned in today's announcement. However, speculation has already started that the next game in the Fallout series, the license for which Bethesda bought from Interplay last year, might very well bear the 2K Games label."

Sweeeeeet. :)

2k Games Website + Logo

[Xoo]

While the website has not yet been launched, you can still check out the new 2K Games logo, if you like...

http://www.2kgames.com/

Frankly I don't know what to think of 2K Games, I guess it's just Take-Two with more of an aggressive acquisition and marketing strategy... kind of like how Atari is just a rethinking of corporate strategy by Infogrames.

Although one person's opinion doesn't matter, am I the only one who feels as though there could be a "Big 5" developing in the gaming industry that could work very similiarly to the RIAA someday?