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Take-Two is planning to take greater steps into the world of networked gaming in a bid to grow its business.

Speaking at the Piper Jaffray conference in New York, chairman Strauss Zelnick told investors that the idea is to “turn packaged goods partially into a subscription business,” reports Kotaku.

The company is experimenting with ways to incorporate microtransactions into its business, he said.

“If we can get a good model for episodic content for high quality titles, that should be a pretty profitable business because there are no hard goods associated with it.”

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Video games and their potential for causing photo sensitive epileptic seizures is to be the subject of a House of Commons debate in the UK after a long campaign by a mum whose son suffered a first time fit while playing the Nintendo DS version of Rayman Raving Rabbids. You can read about the original story here.

The mum, Gaye Herford, wants new ’safety-testing’ laws for videogames that would make it a legal requirement for game makers to ensure their games contain no scenes that could trigger a seizure. Currently, publishers only include epilepsy warnings for games voluntarily.

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