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Take Two Interactive, Inc. CEO Ben Feder: "I don't run my business
to... -06/29/10 at 8:56
AM CDTby Perry Rod
In an article published yesterday, Take Two
Interactive [NASDAQ:TTWO] CEO Ben Feder stated, “I
don’t run my business to please the analyst community.”
It’s no wonder, of course, that interactive entertainment
analysts are equally unimpressed with Take Two Interactive
stock. Indeed, Take Two management routinely appears to
ac...
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Take Two Interactive Inc. E3 2010 Performance
Recap -06/21/10 at 9:59
AM CDTby Perry Rod
It was nice to finally see Take Two Interactive
(NASDAQ:TTWO) on the show floor of E3. As you walked in, the
first thing you saw at the entrance of their booth were lifesize
characters from Take Two’s franchise, Bioshock. The
suggestion here is that the franchise is as alive as ever and
developers are already hard at work on a sequel, de...
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Coming Redemption For Take Two Interactive
Investors -04/20/10 at
10:59 AM CDTby Perry
Rod
For the last couple weeks, Take Two's
(NASDAQ:TTWO) Red Dead Redemption titles for the Xbox 360 and
PlayStation 3 have showed considerable pre-order interest on the
Amazon bestseller video game chart as well as other online
charts. GameStop stores also appear to be involved in a heavy
marketing campaign for the title. This has come as a
surpr...
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Take Two Interactive's Bioshock 2 Tops Software Sales for February
2010 -03/11/10 at 5:23
PM CSTby Perry Rod
Take Two (NASDAQ:TTWO)'s Bioshock 2 on the Xbox
360 barely beat out Wii's popular New Super Mario Brothers for the
month of February, according to NPD. Activision's November
release, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was at number 3 and 6 of
the top 10. Electronic Arts hit the next three spots.
Sony's Heavy Rain comes in tenth. On the...
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Hopes and Dreams Continue at Take Two Interactive
Software -12/28/09 at
10:11 AM CSTby Perry
Rod
He said in 1993 it was always his dream to run
his own media company. Strauss Zelnick left a nice job at Fox
and took a big risk to work on a start-up video game company,
Crystal Dynamics. That risk turned out to be a failure for
him at the time but provided him with a resume entry that would
prove to be invaluable. When Carl Icahn bought int...
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Strauss Zelnick: No Regrets, No Responsibility, Take
Two -12/04/09 at 12:06
AM CSTby Perry Rod
Take Two Interactive's [NASDAQ:TTWO] Strauss
Zelnick has done it again. In July, I profiled Mr. Zelnick, a
man who brags about having no regrets and taking no responsibility
for his many failures at Take Two. Today, despite being "proud" of
sales of titles such as Borderlands and Take Two's NBA title, Mr.
Zelnick specifically pointed out that he wa...
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A Tale of Two Company Blockbuster Franchises: Activision Blizzard's
C... -11/23/09 at 3:28
PM CSTby Perry Rod
Activision Blizzard’s (NASDAQ: ATVI) Call
of Duty Modern Warfare 2 recently dethroned Take Two Interactive's
(NASDAQ: TTWO) Grand Theft Auto 4 for having the biggest opening
week worldwide of any video game in history. One glaring
difference between the business models behind the two franchises is
that one comes out with a core sequel each yea...
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Gamestop Inc Will Die, They Say, But Publisher Actions Speak Louder
T... -10/29/09 at 12:54
PM CDTby Perry Rod
Gamestop’s closest U.S. comparable is Best
Buy (BBY). Analysts for Best Buy Inc. are predicting an 8%
year over year EPS growth rate. Based on current trading
prices, BBY trades at a P/E ratio of around 13. Meanwhile, analysts
project a 14% year over year EPS increase at Gamestop Inc
(NYSE:GME). With higher analyst growth expectati...
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NPD Results Delayed for Gamestop Corp, Activision, Take Two
Interacti... -10/15/09
at 5:27 PM CDTby Mahyar
Hashemi
Video game investors will have to wait a couple
more business days to see September's NPD results for video game
software and hardware sales. "We have just released a
communication to our clients, explaining that, due to last minute
processing requirements, the NPD Video Games Retail Tracking
information for September 2009 will now be released on Mo...
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Roddy Boyd, Formerly of News Corporation and Time Warner Inc., and
th... -10/13/09 at 3:21
PM CDTby Mark Mitchell
“Telling the truth is only possible by
accident through a special sort of boastfulness…” -
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Idiot” Regular readers of Deep
Capture are aware that we have sought to expose certain journalists
who seem to serve the interests of a network of market miscreants,
many of whom are tied to the famous criminal ...
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Wedbush Morgan Upgrades Gamestop (GME)
-10/08/09 at 10:59 AM
CDTby Perry Rod
Calling Gamestop's guidance "conservative" and
citing valuation, Wedbush Morgan senior analyst Michael Pachter
raised his rating and price target for Gamestop to $34 and
"Outperform". "We expect industry sales to return to positive
territory in September, and think that GameStop is well positioned
to recover as well. " Gamestop is up around 3% this mornin...
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Electronic Arts Chairman Larry Probst in a High Profile
Failure -10/02/09 at
2:41 PM CDTby Perry Rod
Larry Probst, current chairman of Electronic
Arts (ERTS), served for three years as the company's CEO and is its
largest individual shareholder. In that three years,
Electronic Arts stock was flat while the S&P 500 rose 30% and
Activision, its biggest competitor, rose 170%. He stepped
down as CEO in 2007 but still holds the position of cha...
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