RECENT NEWS

Take Two Takeover

Strauss Zelnick’s Take-Two buys Mark Pincus’s Zynga in $12.7 billion deal

One of the largest deals in video game history will align a mobile-gaming firm with a PC- and console-focused developer under the same leadership

Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images and Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

Marc Pincus and Strauss Zelnick

Video game company Take-Two Interactive has reached a $12.7 billion deal to acquire rival company Zynga, catapulting the “Grand Theft Auto” creator into one of the industry’s most formidable game publishers.

The deal, one of the largest in video...

Subscribe now to
the Daily Kickoff

The politics and business news you need to stay up to date, delivered each morning in a must-read newsletter.