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Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick isn’t interested in pursuing a number of tactics adopted by rival publishers.

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Take-Two chief Srauss Zelnick has accused social gaming giant Zynga of having “sketchy” metrics, claiming an inability to provide concrete data is keeping the firm from full disclosure.

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Take Two president Strauss Zelnick has said in a Forbes interview that more Duke Nukem will be coming from the publisher in the future.

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Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has addressed rumours of any impending acquisition offers following the company’s recent massive success, saying it likes being independent.

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Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said there’s still life yet within this cycle of consoles.

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Take Two’s announced an extension of its NBA deal, which has seen NBA 2K11 sell 5 million units worldwide.

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Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said Metacritic ratings, and the reviews they’re based on, make a “real difference” to the game’s success – or failure.

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Take Two president Strauss Zelnick has said the publisher won’t annually release its big titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead in the way Activision does with Call of Duty and Guitar Hero.

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Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets 18th Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York yesterday, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said that moaning about the used games market is pointless: you beat secondhand sales with quality, apparently.

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Take Two’s announced Ben Feder will stand down as CEO of the publisher, effective as of January 1, 2011.

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Digital distribution may be a growing part of Take-Two’s business, but company head Strauss Zelnick doesn’t think the days of shiny boxes on store shelves are over just yet.

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Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick has said that 2K studios other than 2K Marin may develop BioShock titles in future.

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Take Two president Strauss Zelnick has said that unless the company doesn’t “get bigger”, the firm won’t make a profit in a year where a major Grand Theft Auto doesn’t release.

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Borderlands’ expected to become a “key franchise” for Take-Two, according to both big bossman Strauss Zelnick and CEO Ben Feder.

This bit was cemented by the game’s “successful launch”.

So, it looks like there is more Borderlands in our future.

The call is ongoing, we’ll let you know if there is anything else you should be aware of.

Guess what? Take-Two really doesn’t want to talk about GTA V. This is what Strauss Zelnick said tonight to an analyst in its Q3 earnings call when asked to give an indication as to when the next title in gaming’s greatest franchise is going to be announced:

“We’re not going to announce it. We’re not going to announce when we’re going to announce it. And we’re not going to announce the strategy about announcing it or about when we’re going to announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the announcement of the strategy.

“Any other questions?”

Big Strauss is a card, non?

Marketrap has blasted Take-Two head Strauss Zelnick’s handling of the company recently, essentially accusing the chairman of either lying to the market or simply being outrageously bad as his job.

“If you’re keeping score, in a two year period, Mr Zelnick managed to, on three occasions, make vital statements that were within a matter of weeks proven to be either fabricated or just incredibly incompetent (or worse),” says the piece.

“Mr Zelnick managed to resist and reject [an EA] buyout offer that was triple the company’s current share price while claiming other interested parties who never emerged.”

More hilarity through the link. Via GamePolitics and Kotaku.

Take-Two head Strauss Zelnick needs his hits to be hittier, he’s confessed to VentureBeat.

“We announced it sold around 3 million units,” he said of BioShock. “I’d like to see a title like that sell 5 million units.

“That would make the difference for us. If you have four or five titles that are significantly successful, that will meaningfully change our profitability.”

BioShock 2 should out-perform the original, the exec said.

“BioShock got a lot of attention. It’s brand is huge. It won lots of awards. But it wasn’t as huge as a seller. I’m hopeful that BioShock 2 will benefit from the brand awareness, where people will play it even if they didn’t play the original.”

Zelnick added that Take-Two now has 16 games with sales in excess of 1 million units.

Full interview through there, including a pretty clear indication that you’re not going to see a GTA MMO any time soon.

Director Gore Verbinski has passed on the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in order to focus on the upcoming BioShock movie.

That’s fine, because, if we’re being honest, the last PotC film was shit anyway.

Take-Two head Strauss Zelnick said last year that the BioShock movie will release alongside a third game.

More over on SciFi Wire.

Disbarred attorney Jack Thompson has called Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick “a sociopath” in an interview with VGChartz.

No joke. He also insulted his parents. Just for good measure.

When asked if he thought parents should be lawfully punished for purchasing M-rated games for their children, Thompson disagreed – but only to an extent.

“How would you have me target irresponsible parents? Throw them in jail? There’s a bit of a constitutional/legal problem there,” he said.

“If we were going to start targeting irresponsible parents, then we should be throwing Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick’s mother and father in the federal penitentiary. Now that would definitely be a good thing. They raised a sociopath.”

Read the rest through there, if you can be bothered.

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said in the firm’s Q1 earnings call today that mature content on Nintendo platforms is something he’s going to do well. Go, Strauss.

“I do believe there is an opportunity for M-rated titles on Nintendo,on the DS and on the Wii,” he said. “I believe we’re the right company to be delivering that content.”

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is out March 20. Where’s GTA for Wii, then?