Chris Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 UPDATE: As you probably realised, yes, this was just an April Fools' joke. Credit to GTANF for the idea, and shout-outs to GTAGaming, GTANetwork.it, GTA Légende, and GTAForums.fr for joining in! It seems that the Grand Theft Auto series will have a new home very shortly, as Activision started takeover procedures of Take-Two today. Earlier, the Call of Duty publisher began buying majority shares in Take-Two and formally started the takeover. While catching us slightly off guard, this isn't entirely surprising news as it was revealed back in February that Activision were looking to acquire Take-Two, however, nothing came to fruition from this as it was later said that Take-Two "didn't fulfil requirements" that Activision had laid out. Once the takeover is complete, Activision will own all the studios that are currently under Take-Two's control - as you're probably aware, Rockstar Games is just one of those studios. Additionally, Activision will claim ownership rights of IP's including Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead, Max Payne, Mafia and BioShock. This could have major implications on the future of the GTA series. It's not currently known what plans Activision have for it, but we can safely say they will keep it going. Will they be pumping out below-par GTA games once a year just to keep profits steady? Or will they keep things going as they at the moment? Feel free to fire off your own comments below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blur Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 (edited) Bravo. You successfuly caused me to search frantically for a minute or two. I'm to gullible I guess. Although its still not April 1 where I'm living for another hour. Defintely better than the previous April 1st jokes imo. Looks like I was the only one that got duped. /shakes head/ Edited April 1, 2011 by totalaccessGTA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUN3R Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 (edited) [insert most obvious April fools day prank here] Oh wait Chris already did Nice try but I was hoping to see the site upside down like last year D: Edited April 1, 2011 by TUN3R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 Ha. Well, sorry to disappoint you, it's after 12pm now so not much point taking this any further This was actually supposed to be bigger, numerous other GTA sites were supposed to post the same story to make it more believable, some dropped out, some ran their own jokes... so yeah... Last year's was ok wasn't it, though the most fun was our 2009 one in my opinion For anyone who doesn't know/remember, past jokes we've run were: 2006: http://www.gtachicago.com 2009: http://www.thegtaplace.com/april/2009.php 2010: http://www.thegtaplace.com/april/2010.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Lolwut wat is this. No more imagination? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUN3R Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 This was actually supposed to be bigger, numerous other GTA sites were supposed to post the same story to make it more believable, some dropped out, some ran their own jokes... so yeah... For anyone who doesn't know/remember, past jokes we've run were: 2006: http://www.gtachicago.com 2009: http://www.thegtaplace.com/april/2009.php 2010: http://www.thegtaplace.com/april/2010.php Too bad, would have been epic troll ^^ Anyway I wasn't registered in 2009 (or just not active, don't remember), pink ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 Yeah, unfortunately us and GTAGaming were the only English sites that went along with it so it didn't get as widespread as we hoped. Still, was better than doing nothing I think. And yeah looking at your join date you weren't around then, we became the gayest GTA site out there, but hey at least people can't complain of any homophobia here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoLuTioN Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Pink Tgtap was awesome.. We got covered by a couple of news sites too yeah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 2, 2011 Author Share Posted April 2, 2011 Yes, including a fairly high profile Australian news website (NineMSN - slide 11) - funny thing is the caption there got changed from "Gay Theft Auto" to "Girl theft auto" - Did they think they would offend people or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoLuTioN Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 I think it was because we were all talking bout what a huge sausage fest the site has become. Probably thought we were trying to get girls to join the site or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUN3R Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 I think it was because we were all talking bout what a huge sausage fest the site has become. Probably thought we were trying to get girls to join the site or something. By painting it pink? Lol how dumb is they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate10 Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Had me fooled. Guess I'm gullible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackListedB Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) But us GTAF Vets already know this is something they've done before, offering up EA as the buyers of Take Two, I fell for it, pretty bad I must say. WELL, I won't fall for such news so easily I can tell you....again! Should add, as far as any studio pining to own Take2, it's really up to them what happens, they've refused such offers on the strength of their titles profitability I believe, and maintaining the control of their IP, if that's the right way to say it Edited April 5, 2011 by BlackListedB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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