Publishers of titles of two-to-two interactive, 2K games, 2K sports and rockstar games, codemasters, futures makers of Dirt, Grid and F1 racing games are buying. The 4,994 million deal is expected to move forward in the first quarter of 2021, Take-Two said in a news release on Tuesday.
Strauss-Kelnick, president and CEO of Tech-Tuna, said the acquisition of Codemasters would be “extremely complementary” to Tech-Tuna’s sports portfolio, which includes NBA 2K, NHL 2K, PGA Tour 2K and WWE2K. Zelnick praised the UK-based publisher for his “famous history of creating some of our industry’s most beloved and commercially successful racing franchises.”
With the acquisition of the former Evolution Studio team, there has been significant growth in Codemasters in recent years (Motorsterm, DriveClub(In 2016 and slightly Mad Studio)Project Cars, Fast and furious crossroads) In 2019. The latest game of Codemasters, Dirt 5, PlayStation 4, was released on November 6 on Windows PC and Xbox One. Rally Racing Game is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X this week.
Microsoft acquired Zenimax Media and added Bethesda software to Xbox Game Studio in September, and Sony completed the acquisition of Unsomic Games last November, a busy year of integration for the video game industry.
