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Take Two Interactive revenues shoot up in last fiscal quarter

It's not a shock, but Take Two Interactive's last fiscal quarter (which ended April 30) was a huge one for the publisher. Today the company announced that revenues for the quarter came in at $539.8 million, up from $205.4 million from the same period a year ago. Net profit was $98.2 million for the quarter, up from a loss of $51.2 million from the same period a year ago.

Of course the big reason for the huge numbers was the success of the Xbox 360 and PS3 release of Grand Theft Auto IV from Take 2's Rockstar brand (so far there has been no announcement of a PC version of the game; all of the GTA games have eventually been ported to the PC platform). Take Two did say that their first person shooter Bioshock has shipped 2.2 million copies in total for the Xbox 360 and PC platforms. Take Two's line-up for the rest of their 2008 fiscal year (which ends October 31) does not currently contain any PC titles but their 2009 fiscal line-up will have PC games like Bioshock 2, Borderlands and Mafia 2.

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