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Video game company postpones meeting amid shareholder revolt

"If Take-Two and other companies don't diversify genres and their ultimate strategy is to milk the same gamers over and over again, they will run into a corner," said Michael Cai, director of broadband and gaming research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research firm.

From the article "Video game company postpones meeting amid shareholder revolt," by Rachel Konrad

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