The Grand Theft Auto video games publisher firm Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) surged following Q3 results that surpassing analysts’ forecasts on sales of its newest game title basketball.

The shares rose more than 6.6% to $13.50 in protracted trading yesterday following they surged 1.2% to $12.66 at the close in New York.

The New York-based firm reported in a statement yesterday that adjusted sales rose 71% to $405M. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, analysts had anticipated $363.8M on average. Excluding several items, profit of 67 cents per share surpasses the 55-cent average anticipates of 17 analysts.

Take-Two on Jan. 31 overdue the upcoming version of its best-selling game “Grand Theft Auto,” declared sales of its “Borderlands 2” shooter game and “NBA 2K13,” which helped after Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:EA) irrecoverable a competitor basketball title. According to the statement, the publisher has shipped over 15M pieces of “NBA 2K,” which obtained its uppermost overall rating ever.

CEO Strauss Zelnick stated in an interview that their focus on quality really matters over time. If they offer people what they want, they will appear for it.

The firm reported that revenue from digitally delivered content over tripled from a year before and accounted for 23% of net revenue, obsessed by Grand Theft Auto, Borderlands as well as NBA 2K13. The initial Grand Theft Auto game in five years will began selling on Sept. 17.

On the other hand, the third-quarter net income surged to $71.4M, or 66 cents per share, in contrast with $14.1M, or 16 cents, a year before, the firm declared. Net revenue moved up 76% to $415.8M.

Take-Two estimates profit of 5 cents to 20 cents per share for the fiscal year ending March 31, excluding several items, in contrast to the 14-cent average of 15 forecasters. Its estimates for sales of $1.15B to $1.20B in contrast with the average anticipate of 1.18B.

The firm reported yesterday that it official a plan to buy back up to 7.5M shares.