Take-Two is up there with Nintendo when it comes to publishers that hand out takedowns and DMCA notices like candy, but its latest legal venture has resulted in it having to reveal figures that had previously been kept under wraps for years. Rockstar's parent company recently went after a sandwich shop with Vice City in its name, revealing unknown sales data for Vice City Stories in its filing.
Typically, Take-Two's takedowns revolve around mods it doesn't like or people leaking things about GTA that they really shouldn't be leaking. Going after a sandwich shop might be new territory for the studio. As reported by Game File, the trademark complaint was filed last month, against the owners of a sandwich shop who, had they managed to fly under Take-Two's radar, planned to call their new eatery Vice City Subs.
You hear the term Vice City, and you think of GTA. I imagine that applies to a lot of people, and I'd hazard to guess that the sandwich shop owners are aware of that, hence their attempts to piggyback on the name. That will presumably no longer be happening as I can't imagine the owners will be attempting to...
