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Take-Two Interactive sells Outer Worlds and indie game publisher Private Division
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Take-Two Interactive sells Outer Worlds and indie game publisher Private Division

GTA Parent company Take-Two Interactive has sold independent game publishing company Private Division to an unknown buyer. The news comes after a few months Take-Two shuts down Roll7 and InterceptTake-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says this is part of the company’s move into mobile and blockbuster games.

“The Special Division team has done a great job supporting independent developers, and nearly every project they have supported has been successful,” Zelnick said. GamesIndustry.biz. “But obviously those projects were smaller in scale and we are in the business of achieving big successes.”

“We made this strategic decision so we can focus all of our resources on growing our core and mobile businesses over the long term,” Zelnick continued. “We really are the best at these big AAA experiences. We have some of the greatest intellectual property in the world.” “The interactive entertainment business is one of the largest intellectual properties in the overall entertainment industry, and it is our mission to continue existing popular series and create new popular intellectual properties.”

The game-buying frenzy from the exciting days when Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard (a frenzy that resulted in studio closures and thousands of layoffs) has abated. With companies like Embracer no longer buying studios and Zelnick giving no clue as to who the buyer is, it’s now impossible to make an educated guess as to who might own Private Division.

Zelnick said Take-Two will continue to support Moon Studio’s latest action RPG, No Rest for the Wicked, for the foreseeable future.