A hot potato: Take-Two Interactive, a company that has washed little to endear itself to gamers with its indomitable pursuit of GTA modders, will likely concenter even more acrimony following news of its almost patent troll-similar behavior. It seems the organization has filed hundreds of trademark disputes for terms that include 'Rockstar,' '2K,' and 'Bully.' It likewise went afterward the developer of co-op title It Takes Two.

Twitter user Ash R. discovered the listing of trademark disputes Take-2 Interactive filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Role. It mostly targets entities using the term Rockstar, the same name equally the Accept-Two subsidiary behind the GTA games.

Some of the disputed names include 'Don't be a Rockstar Legend,' 'Rockstars authors and tattoo parlors,' and 'Rockstar axe throwing.'

Accept-2 has also filed against anyone using the term '2K,' another ane of its subsidiaries, with 'Prey2K' on the listing. Even 'Max Fayne' and 'Max Hurting' can't escape for sounding as well much like Rockstar Games' Max Payne. There's also one for 'Great free earth.' Information technology fifty-fifty filed disputes against a company that uses the letter of the alphabet 'R' as its logo, despite having a completely unlike blueprint to Rockstar's.

Would you fault this for Rockstar's logo?

One of the very familiar names on the list is 'Information technology Takes Two.' Hazelight Studio'due south excellent co-op platformer is one of our All-time PC Games (You Should Be Playing), just information technology seems Accept-Two felt the name was also similar to its own—past that logic, perhaps Kim Weston and the estate of Marvin Gaye could sue Accept-Two Interactive.

Some of the trademarks take been abandoned, including the one confronting It Takes Two, but plenty are still classed as ongoing.

Before this year, Have-Two Interactive launched a lawsuit against iv modders over their enhanced versions of G Theft Automobile 3 and G Theft Car: Vice City. The group recently fought dorsum by claiming the games they created were protected by Fair Apply under the Copyright Act.