Take-Two is selling its indie games label Private Division

Nov 07, 2024 06:52 AM - 1 month ago 45759

Take-Two Interactive is trading disconnected its indie games explanation Private Division, which published titles specified arsenic The Outer Worlds and OlliOlli World, pursuing rumors complete the summer that Take-Two laid disconnected astir of Private Division’s staff.

Take-Two did not disclose the purchaser of Private Division aliases really overmuch they paid. In an emailed connection to The Verge, Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis wrote:

We precocious made the strategical determination to waste our Private Division explanation to attraction our resources connected increasing our halfway and mobile businesses for the long-term. As portion of this transaction, the purchaser purchased our authorities to substantially each of Private Division’s unrecorded and unreleased titles.

Take-Two will proceed to support No Rest for the Wicked, which launched successful Early Access connected PC successful April. We are grateful for the contributions that the Private Division squad has made to our institution and are assured that they will proceed to execute occurrence successful their caller home.

According to Bloomberg, the explanation has been plagued by “a drawstring of flops, including Kerbal Space Program 2, which was afloat of bugs and panned by fans.” Private Division games, including the upcoming The Lord of the Rings farm simulator Tales of the Shire, arsenic good arsenic Pokémon developer Game Freak’s untitled crippled known arsenic Project Bloom, will move complete to the caller buyer. However, Private Divison’s purchaser won’t get the authorities to No Rest for the Wicked.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told GamesIndustry.biz that the purchaser would beryllium named soon and said, “The squad of Private Division did a awesome occupation supporting independent developers and, almost to a one, each task they supported did well. However, the standard of those projects was, candidly, connected the smaller side, and we’re successful the business of making awesome large hits,” for illustration the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI.