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Visual Concepts is a California-based video game developer best known for developing Take-Two Interactive's 2K series of sports games. After the success of the series, they were picked up by Sega and became a wholly owned studio with Sega, usually termed a first-party developer. However, Sega at the time termed non-internal studios that the company either set up or purchased as "1.5 development studios" in order to differentiate them from their own internal studios. In January 2005, Visual Concepts was sold to Take-Two Interactive along with their wholly owned subsidiary Kush Games. With the purchase of Visual Concepts, Take-Two created 2K Games, a new publishing label.[1] Although the company started out developing quirky titles such as Lester the Unlikely, development efforts are now primarily centered on sports titles such as Basketball and Baseball.

Games developed by Visual Concepts[2]

2K/WWE game series

2K/ESPN game series

Other games

Xbox

Dreamcast

PlayStation

  • NBA Fastbreak '98
  • NHL Hockey '97 (published by EA Sports)
  • One
  • Viewpoint

Sega Saturn

  • NBA Action 98 (published by Sega Sports)
  • NHL Hockey 97 (published by EA Sports)

SNES/Genesis/Mega Drive

Game Boy

Apple IIGS

  • Task Force (published by Britannica Software)
  • Gnarly Golf (published by Britannica Software)
  • Great Western Shootout (published by Britannica Software)

References

  1. ^ Sharma, Dinesh (2005-01-25). "Take-Two takes Sega's sports-game studios". CNET. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  2. ^ Games Developed by Visual Concepts www.ign.com