Take-Two signs a new long-term Xbox publisher license with Microsoft, effective Sep 17, 2026

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

Take-Two Interactive Software and Microsoft entered into a new long-term XBOX Publisher License Agreement on Sep 28, 2026, with an effective date of Sep 17, 2026, according to an 8-K Take-Two filed on Sep 30, 2026. An 8-K is the form a US company files to report a material event, and this one reports item 1.01, the entry into a material definitive agreement. The agreement replaces all of Take-Two's existing XBOX publisher license agreements with Microsoft. It gives Take-Two the right to develop, publish, have manufactured, market, advertise, distribute and sell XBOX compatible products for all XBOX devices.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6

Microsoft will pay Take-Two the applicable wholesale price, an agreed revenue share, or both, for Take-Two digital products and content that Microsoft sells. For each physical media product manufactured on Take-Two's behalf, Microsoft charges Take-Two fees and royalties. Microsoft has the right to review and approve each game concept and the final version of each game, including packaging and marketing materials that carry its marks.7^,8^,9

Either side may end the agreement for a material breach or insolvency, and on expiry or termination Take-Two has certain rights to sell off its existing inventories. The 8-K says the agreement's full text will be filed as an exhibit to Take-Two's Form 10-Q, its quarterly report, for the period ending Sep 30, 2026.10^,11

For games, the party named is the parent company, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. In our records its publishing labels include Rockstar Games, which publishes Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Red Dead Redemption 2, and 2K, which publishes Borderlands 4, Mafia: The Old Country, NBA 2K27, WWE 2K26 and Sid Meier's Civilization VII.1^,12^,13^,14^,15

Our records hold the text of this 8-K and not the filing's other exhibits.16