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He was succeeded by previous chief operating officer (COO) David Ismailer later in May 2017. He later joined Amazon Game Studios in August 2018. Hartmann had worked for Take-Two Interactive for roughly 20 years, but did not state a reason for his departure. On May 4, 2017, 2K's co-founder and until-then president, Christoph Hartmann, announced that he had stepped down from his position. Through this opening, 2K absorbed all assets of Take-Two Interactive's budget-range publisher Global Star Software, including the game Carnival Games, the studio Cat Daddy Games, and games based on Deal or No Deal. Alongside this announcement, Take-Two Interactive introduced a third 2K label, 2K Play, to focus on casual games. On September 10, 2007, Take-Two Interactive announced that they had struck a partnership with Nickelodeon on publishing games based on their licenses. In June 2007 2K announced that they had closed their offices in New York City and would move to a new location on the West Coast, namely Novato, California. On January 21, 2006, a fire heavily damaged the administration and marketing portions of 2K's offices. Several of Take-Two Interactive's development studios-Visual Concepts, Kush Games, Indie Built, Venom Games, PopTop Software, and Frog City Software-became studios of 2K, and Take-Two Licensing was merged into the new label. The following day Take-Two Interactive established the 2K publishing label, consisting of the sub-labels 2K Games and 2K Sports, with the latter focusing on sports games.
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On January 24, 2005, Take-Two Interactive announced that it had acquired Visual Concepts, including its Kush Games subsidiary and the intellectual property of the 2K sports-game series, from Sega for US$24 million.