Take Two Interactive, 2K Appoint Michael Condrey President of New Game Development Studio

Take Two Interactive and its wholly-owned label, 2K, appointed Michael Condrey as president of the label’s new game development studio based in Silicon Valley. 2K’s new studio—with an official name to be announced—will join the company’s family of wholly-owned development teams, including Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, and Cat Daddy Games. Condrey, a co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and previous COO and director at Visceral Games, will build and lead a new development team to work on an unannounced project.

Condrey brings more than 20 years of creative, production, and development leadership experience to 2K. He led development across several titles in the Call of Duty franchise, including Call of Duty: WWII (2017), Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014), and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011). He led creation of the third-person, survival-horror shooter Dead Space (2008), and guided the James Bond 007 franchise to critical and commercial success.

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James Zahn, AKA The Rock Father, is Editor-in-Chief of The Toy Book, a Senior Editor at The Toy Insider and The Pop Insider, and Editor of The Toy Report, The Toy Book‘s weekly industry newsletter. As a pop culture and toy industry expert, Zahn has appeared as a panelist and guest at events including Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) Wizard World Chicago, and the ASTRA Marketplace & Academy. Zahn has more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment, retail, and publishing industries, and is frequently called upon to offer expert commentary for publications such as Forbes, Marketwatch, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, the Washington Post, and more. James has appeared on History Channel’s Modern Marvels, was interviewed by Larry King and Anderson Cooper, and has been seen on Yahoo! Finance, CNN, CNBC, FOX Business, NBC, ABC, CBS, WGN, The CW, and more. Zahn joined the Adventure Media & Events family in 2016, initially serving as a member of the Parent Advisory Board after penning articles for the Netflix Stream Team, Fandango Family, PBS KIDS, Sprout Parents (now Universal Kids), PopSugar, and Chicago Parent. He eventually joined the company full time as a Senior Editor and moved up the ranks to Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief.