Believe it or not,but not forcing games to be walking adverts for season passes and cosmetic guff has been a solid business strategy for Take Two Interactive.

Mafia 3 arrives next year, with an emphasis on brutality, race and crime. All wrapped up in a neat sandbox genre that is populated with civilians, fast cars and tons of guns. Kind of like that other game that Take Two Interactive publishes.

According to the guy who runs Rockstar and 2K game's parent company, there's less compeitition in the AAA games space.

It wasn’t too long ago that we told you the BBC was developing a 90-minute docudrama around the life and times of Rockstar Games’ best-selling ‘Grand Theft Auto’ video game series, and on it’s (British) creators Sam and Dan Houser. As we said then it forms part of  a “BBC initiative to increase young peoples’ interest in learning digital skills”. …

Take Two Interactive has a too much money problem now, after GTA has sold 33 million units.