On September 11, 2000, Japanese tech company TDK acquired Sound Source Interactive and renamed it to TDK Mediactive. The company published many games with a heavy focus on pre-existing licenses. On September 3, 2003, TDK Mediactive was acquired by Take-Two Interactive, and was rebranded as Take-Two Licensing; however, the TDK Mediactive name continued to be used in games until January 2005, when Take-Two launched the publishing division 2K Games and folded Take-Two Licensing into it.