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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. () is an American Publisher , Developer , and distributor of Video and Computer Game s and video game Peripheral s. The company's headquarters are in New York City , United States, with international headquarters in Geneva , Switzerland . Development studio locations include San Diego , Vancouver , Toronto and Austin, Texas . Take-Two's subsidiary ''. As well as ''GTA'', Rockstar developed several other action games, including '' Manhunt '' and '' State Of Emergency ''. In other genres, Rockstar creations include '' Midnight Club '' and its Sequel s, the Western-themed '' Red Dead Revolver '' (originally developed by Capcom ), and '' Bully ''. Take-Two's other subsidiaries include ''); Sega 's ESPN sports titles, for which 2K Sports was the publisher; and the ''Outlaw'' sports series, which includes '' Outlaw Golf '' and '' Outlaw Volleyball ''. In February of 1999, Take-Two published the game Biosys under the company Jumpstart Interactive , a point-and-click adventure which follows the protagonist Professor Alan Russell and is set inside the fictional ecological facility Biosphere Four. In 2004 Take 2 formed two new publishing companies called 2K Games and 2K Sports to manage a group of newly acquired development studios as well as publishing deals with a variety of other well known studios. Take 2 acquired the rights to the ESPN 2K sports games (When EA announced the ESPN deal, they dropped "ESPN" from their games), created by Visual Concepts (football and basketball) and Kush Games (baseball and hockey), from Sega as part of the creation of 2K Sports. In March 2007 Take Two filed a Lawsuit Against Jack Thompson , to prevent him from filing a Public Nuisance complaint in Florida court like he did with '' Bully ''. At the annual meeting on March 29, 2007, Take-Two investors ousted five of six board members, including the chief executive, Paul Eibeler , who was replaced by Ben Feder {Link without Title} Ryan Brant, former chief executive of Take-Two Interactive Software, pleaded guilty in February 2007 to falsifying business records. He faced up to four years in prison but received a lighter sentence in a plea agreement after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors. {Link without Title} In 2005, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a lawsuit that Brant, with the company's former chief financial officers, Larry Muller and James David Jr., and its head of sales, Robert Blau, inflated revenue in fiscal years 2000 and 2001. In June the UFC filed a lawsuit against the company over the video game they created for the organization. {Link without Title} WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARIES
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