Take-Two is selling its indie games label Private Division

Take-Two didn’t disclose the client of Non-public Division or how a lot they paid. In an emailed assertion to The Verge, Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis wrote:

We just lately made the strategic choice to promote our Non-public Division label to focus our sources on rising our core and cell companies for the long-term. As a part of this transaction, the client bought our rights to considerably all of Non-public Division’s dwell and unreleased titles.

Take-Two will proceed to help No Relaxation for the Depraved, which launched in Early Entry on PC in April. We’re grateful for the contributions that the Non-public Division workforce has made to our firm and are assured that they are going to proceed to attain success of their new dwelling.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick informed GamesIndustry.biz that the client can be named quickly and mentioned, “The workforce of Non-public Division did an ideal job supporting unbiased builders and, virtually to a one, each undertaking they supported did effectively. Nonetheless, the dimensions of these initiatives was, candidly, on the smaller facet, and we’re within the enterprise of creating nice massive hits,” just like the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI.