The rumor had been operating for a number of days, right here it’s official: not content material with being probably the most highly effective corporations in video games by proudly owning Rockstar (GTA, Red Dead Redemption) or 2K Games (NBA 2K, Borderlands, BioShock), Take-Two has simply introduced the acquisition of Codemasters for the tidy sum of roughly … 950 million {dollars}. Much greater than a improvement studio based in 1986 within the United Kingdom, the agency has, over time, change into its personal writer earlier than opening different branches in Birmingham, Cheshire (beforehand Evolution Studios, writer of Motorstorm) , Pune in India or Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Recently, Codemasters even purchased Slighty Mad Studios, one other British firm behind the Project CARS saga.
A very strategic acquisition for Take-Two which, by way of the 800 workers constituting Codemasters, thus recovers a big portfolio of franchises from motor sports activities: F1, DiRT, WRC, GRID or, as stated beforehand, Projet CARS, all these manufacturers will land now within the bosom of the American large. Good game.
