
Rockstar and its franchise Grand Theft Auto is the "primary interest" of EA's attempted purchase of Take Two games, said chief executive John Riccitiello.
Mr Riccitiello said: "I believe the company is fully justified in calling themselves Rockstar because that's what they are in this industry."
Take Two turned down EA's first approach and so the games giant is now targeting shareholders directly.

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
No Sh!t.
Dam i hate EA why are they so popular?!?!? Just leave T2 alone greedy B@stards
please sony i beg u buy Rockstar as soon as you can before EA ruins a great company
back away EA...slowly.
are nothing but greedy bastards,this hostile approach just proves what tools they are,I hate them with a passion.c'mon fellow gamers!, weather you're a Sony,Microsoft,Nintendo or Pc fan,Boycott EA products! show Take 2 that we as gamers stand behind them 100%,and that they are better off not selling to them.