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Visual Concepts

Visual Concepts Entertainment is an American video game developer based in Novato, California. Founded in May 1988, the company is best known for developing sports games in the 2K franchise, most recently NBA 2K and WWE 2K, and previously NFL 2K. Visual Concepts was acquired by Sega in May 1999 and sold to Take-Two Interactive in January 2005. The…

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Founded
1988; 38 years ago (1988)
Founders
Scott Patterson · Greg Thomas · Jeff Thomas
Industry
Video games
Headquarters
Novato, California, US
Divisions
VC Austin · VC Blueshift · VC Budapest · VC China · VC Irvine
Key people
Greg Thomas (president)

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Visual Concepts

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples46
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

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related to history · 25
Visual Concepts → California, Cary Hammer, December, Electronic Arts, Following, Form, Greg, In, In September, January, Jeff Thomas, June, Kush Games, Madden NFL, May, Novato, On January, Scott Patterson, Sega, Take-Two Interactive
Divisions · 9
Visual Concepts → VC Austin, VC Blueshift, VC Budapest, VC China, VC Irvine, VC Korea, VC Novato, VC South, VC WWE
Founders · 3
Visual Concepts → Greg Thomas, Jeff Thomas, Scott Patterson
Parent · 2
Visual Concepts → 2K (2005–present), Sega (1999–2005)
Founded · 1
Visual Concepts → 1988; 38 years ago (1988)
Headquarters · 1
Visual Concepts → Novato, California, US
Industry · 1
Visual Concepts → Video games
Key people · 1
Visual Concepts → Greg Thomas (president)
Number of employees · 1
Visual Concepts → 350+ (2018)
Type · 1
Visual Concepts → Subsidiary

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visual concepts 2k sega games company 2005 game take-two interactive january acquisition may employees entertainment video novato california founded 1988

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC Austin1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC Blueshift1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC Budapest1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC China1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC Irvine1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC Korea1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC Novato1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC South1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsDivisionsVC WWE1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsFounded1988; 38 years ago (1988)1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsFoundersScott Patterson1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsFoundersGreg Thomas1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsFoundersJeff Thomas1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsHeadquartersNovato, California, US1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsIndustryVideo games1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsKey peopleGreg Thomas (president)1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsNumber of employees350+ (2018)1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsParentSega (1999–2005)1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsParent2K (2005–present)1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsTypeSubsidiary1.00infobox
Visual ConceptsWebsitevcentertainment.com1.00infobox

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