Take Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games, has announced at its quarterly conference call that it has renewed contracts with key talent at Rockstar Games including the Houser brothers and Leslie Benzies, President of Rockstar North.
Rockstar Games continue to be a key pillar for Take Two, even though its games are often left off the company’s portfolio. Agent and Max Payne 3 are currently still in development at the Rockstar studios but do not have a target release window. Yet, Take-Two boasts fondly of Red Dead Redemption‘s success in capturing 8.5 million copies sold to date and with the release of L.A. Noire, Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick had nothing but praise for the game.
From Giant Bomb:
“We certainly don’t want to be subject to [comparing] all of our new releases of new franchises against the extraordiany success of Red Dead Redemption,” said Zelnick. “Every title stands alone. We have every reason to believe L.A. Noire is another strong franchise for this company.”
“No matter how you slice it,” he said, “Ii’s a very successful release. To be able to say that again is extraordinary. This management team is just immensely grateful to Rockstar for delivering another superb title and 2K [Games] for all the franchises they’ve been delivering as of late. One can never take that for granted. The hit ration of this group is extraordinary.”
“We do see this [L.A. Noire] as a powerful new franchise for our company,” concluded Zelnick.
