Take-Two sells Private Division label, confirms closure of OlliOlli World and Kerbal Condominium Program 2 studios

Mammoth Theft Auto and Borderlands writer Take-Two Interactive has introduced the sale of its indie-centered publishing label Private Division. Furthermore, the company has at closing confirmed the closure of OlliOlli World developer Roll7 and Kerbal Condominium Program 2‘s Intercept Video video games, six months after CEO Strauss Zelnick insisted, “We did not shutter these studios.”

Take-Two announced the formation of Personal Division wait on in 2017, particularly to submit video video games from smaller truthful teams. Since then, or now not it’s launched the likes of Obsidian Leisure’s The Outer Worlds and Moon Studios’ No Leisure for the Substandard, place up a model modern development physique of employees – Intercept Video video games – to invent a sequel to Kerbal Condominium Program 2, and even got Roll7, which later launched OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome.

Nonetheless, 2023 launched discover of layoffs at Personal Division, and a flurry of experiences this May even urged a serious shift in method for the label. A beforehand announced publishing settlement with Calm Hill 2 Remake developer Bloober Team become cancelled, and mass layoffs were reported at Roll7 and Intercept Video games, as share of five percent prick rate in workers firm vast, successfully bringing an terminate to the studios. That is no matter CEO Strauss Zelnick later insisting, “We did not shutter [them]”. Rapidly after, it become reported Take-Two become trying to promote Personal Division amid uncover solely a skeleton crew become left on the label to work on No Leisure for the Substandard.

And now, as share of its Q2 2025 earnings doc, Take-Two has confirmed the sale of Private Division. “We not too long ago made the strategic determination to promote [the] label to focus our assets on rising our core and cellular companies for the long-term,” Zelnick acknowledged in engrossing remarks. “As a part of this transaction, the customer bought our rights to considerably all of Non-public Division’s stay and unreleased titles.” Nonetheless, Take-Two – which hasn’t revealed Private Division’s purchaser – will proceed to bolster No Leisure for the Substandard no matter the sale.

“The crew of Non-public Division did an incredible job supporting impartial builders and, nearly to a one, each mission they supported did nicely,” Zelnick acknowledged in separate feedback made to GamesIndustry.biz. “Nonetheless, the dimensions of these tasks was, candidly, on the smaller facet, and we’re within the