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GATHERING DECLARES "TROPICO 2: PIRATE COVE" WEBSITE READY FOR BOARDING AND PLUNDERING

NEW YORK, NY - February 13, 2003 - Gathering, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), has flipped the switch on the "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove" website. All the latest screenshots, downloads, and features are now available at www.tropico2.com . The game, due to ship this spring, is set on a hidden pirate island and stars some of history's scurviest sea dogs. "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove" is sequel to the best-selling "Tropico," which met with worldwide acclaim when it hit shelves in April 2001.

About "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove"

As an all-powerful Pirate King, players must manage a seventeenth century band of buccaneers in "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove." To attract the most frightening of history's sea-faring bad boys, Pirate Kings must keep their charges brave and well-supplied between voyages. The island's "yo-ho-ho's" must stay at a feverish pitch in order to keep the King and his buccaneers satisfied with drinking, wenching, gambling, feasting, and the best in pirate accommodations.

Success in "Tropico 2: Pirate Cove" depends on careful management of the pirate population. As dead men earn no plunder, the King must keep his pirates well-equipped for potentially lethal missions. Sea dogs require muskets, cutlasses, cannons, and the skills to use them when they venture forth to plunder the Spanish Main. Pirates equipped with a parrot on their shoulders and a scary black hat are more likely to strike fear into their victims' hearts.

Plunder, pillage, and prosper.

About Take-Two Interactive Software

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an integrated global developer, marketer, distributor, and publisher of interactive entertainment software games and accessories for the PC, PlayStation(r), PlayStation(r)2, Xbox(tm) video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube(tm) and Nintendo Game Boy Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned subsidiary labels: Rockstar