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In July, Eidos got swallowed by the Final Fantasy mania-spreader, in hopes that the Japanese developer and publisher would be closer to the European market in this way. But the British company wasn't really devoured as much as it was assimilated, in less of a Bork-like manner and more of a natural symbiosis type... |
17 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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No more games bearing the Eidos tag will ever come out again. The company didn't go bankrupt, not even close, it's just that it has been completely assimilated by Square Enix. “From this day forth you shall be known as Square Enix Europe” the Japanese company said and Eidos has complied and beco... |
11 November 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Deux Ex has been one of the most important videogames ever created and the man behind it is Warren Spector, the developer who is now in the limelight because of his involvement with Disney on the Epic Mickey Nintendo Wii project. Even at the moment, he is thoroughly dedicated to making the adventure title and is sayi... |
5 November 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Square Enix is the king of the Japanese role playing games and its biggest franchise worldwide is Final Fantasy, even if Dragon Quest seems to be the series dominating the Land of the Rising Sun. And now, the company has estimated that it will sell more than 6 million copies of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, which ... |
30 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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The economic recession that's been wandering around the globe like a plague has done its share of damage to many countries and industries. But as things seem to be settling down and slowly getting back to the wrecked economy that people are used to, it seems Japan is once again fighting the flow of things. Marke... |
29 September 2009
02:51 GMT |
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A second downloadable content release for Batman: Arkham Asylum will be made available by Eidos tomorrow. "Prey in the Darkness" will feature two new maps, just like the previous DLC. It will offer a new mission for each of the challenge rooms, with the Heart of Darkness offering high-paced combat while the Hothouse ... |
24 September 2009
04:22 GMT |
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One of the most acclaimed games of this year, Batman: Arkham Asylum, proves its worth in hard cash and sales figure. Eidos, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Rocksteady's third-person action adventure with stealth elements managed to rake up almost 2 million units sold in just 2 weeks after its August ... |
22 September 2009
04:32 GMT |
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After a spectacular series of releases in just 12 months, Swedish game developer GRIN slums over its unborn favorite child. Bionic Commando Rearmed, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, and Terminator Salvation were the titles that the company hurried and released in an attempt to save the company, after an almost disastrous fin... |
22 September 2009
03:39 GMT |
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If we were to judge the new gear being released by some of the world's most notorious luxury companies, we'd be inclined to ask, “What world recession are you talking about?” Yet, the facts speak for themselves, especially as we introduce to you the world's most expensive (so far) Blu-ray p... |
15 September 2009
16:01 GMT |
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This week, the people at Beautiful Game Studio, Eidos’s arm in charge of the creation of the Championship Manager franchise after the very public and rather nasty split with Sports Interactive, has announced that until September 10, when the game is set to officially launch, all those who are interested in it c... |
29 August 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Eidos, or now Square Enix Europe, is one of the biggest publishers from the Old Continent, taking care of franchises like Tomb Raider or Kane and Lynch. But one of its most respected series, Hitman, has always managed to gain critical acclaim through every iteration. That is why the team at IO Interactive, its devel... |
17 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that, for the financial quarter that went from April to June, it has seen revenue go down by about 1.2% over last year, reaching the equivalent of 303 million dollars, while the company has registered a loss of 17.22 million dollars, which is pretty bad compared with the 29.68 million profit... |
12 August 2009
04:48 GMT |
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The PC as a gaming platform has been in a cone of shadow lately, with only the release of The Sims 3 managing to draw some attention to it. Other developers and publishers seem quite satisfied with not bringing their new titles to it or if they do decide to grace it with a game, it is usually delayed in order for con... |
7 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Beautiful Game Studios, as the developer, and Eidos Interactive, as the publisher, have announced that the latest entry in the Championship Manager series will be arriving on the PC on September 11 on the European market. A demo is also set to arrive on August 14, offering interested football fans about a month to se... |
6 August 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Comic books are a great source of inspiration for many other branches of the entertainment industry. Apart from giving a solid basis to movies or TV shows, now they are offering some great ideas for video games. The most recent project involving super heroes from these graphic novels is Eidos' Batman: Arkham Asy... |
4 August 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Among video game publishers, Eidos doesn't have the best of reputations, as two years ago a scandal involving the Kane & Lynch video game inflicted a heavy cost on the reputation of the UK-based company. For those of you who don't know, Eidos invested heavily in ad space on gaming website GameSpot, after w... |
14 July 2009
13:11 GMT |
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One of the most popular and alluring video game characters is the lovely Lara Croft, the heroine of Eidos' Tomb Raider franchise. From her pixelated debut back in the 1990s to her high-definition glory in the latest Tomb Raider Underworld, Lara has always managed to guarantee some reasonable sales for the Europe... |
13 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Battlestations: Pacific was released in May and publisher Eidos thinks it’s time to offer some downloadable content for the game in order to increase its shelf life and attract more gamers to the multiplayer modes. The first piece of DLC is now on offer and later in July, players will also be able to get their ... |
6 July 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Eidos has put out some poor games in the last few years, especially in the crucial sales period that begins towards the end of summer and goes until December.Kane & Lynch: Dead Men had a good idea but was marred by poor execution, while Tomb Raider: Underworld, which was a re-imagining of Lara Croft, also performed b... |
6 July 2009
02:34 GMT |
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UK-based publisher Eidos has quite a few profitable and long-running franchises, like Tomb Raider or the more recent Kane and Lynch. But one of the most critically acclaimed is Hitman, which is being taken care of by IO Interactive.The series became quite popular and has even seen a movie adaptation based remotely on... |
29 June 2009
03:14 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS is a hugely successful platform, managing to sell a lot of units all over the world. As such, a lot of games were made for it, most of them trying to deliver some unique experiences.One such title is Soul Bubbles, which has been developed by Makensleep and published by European company Eidos Interacti... |
23 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS is a hugely successful platform, managing to sell a lot of units all over the world. As such, a lot of games were made for it, most of them trying to deliver some unique experiences.One such title is Soul Bubbles, which has been developed by Makensleep and published by European company Eidos Interacti... |
22 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Comic books have been quite popular over the years, transforming their characters into pop culture icons. As such, other entertainment genres couldn't have left them unexploited and video games were no exception, as they feature a lot of heroes or villains from comics. One of the latest examples is Rocksteady S... |
4 June 2009
11:11 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider franchise is one of the most popular series of video games out there, largely due to its main character, the lovely Lara Croft, who has been an icon for many gamers ever since she arrived in the first installment, but also thanks to the intricate and innovative puzzles that were very challenging. Wit... |
25 May 2009
02:17 GMT |
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The gaming industry has a lot of iconic characters that, whether they are known for their personality, attitude or deepness, are now famous around the world. Of course, Hollywood wasn't oblivious to such a thing and has turned a lot of them into movie stars, courtesy of actors. Such is the case with the lovely ... |
20 May 2009
13:01 GMT |
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We've heard quite a lot about Eidos in the last few months, largely due to the fact that it was recently bought by Japanese company Square Enix and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporation. But this doesn't mean any big changes at the company, where it's business as usual and more interestin... |
20 May 2009
02:25 GMT |
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We've been hearing quite a lot of things about Eidos lately, as its acquisition by Japanese company Square Enix has been the subject of many reports by the gaming press. We've seen how the company will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the famous corporation but nothing concrete has been s... |
18 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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It seems that the recent acquirement of Eidos by Square Enix has spurned a newly found desire to start new projects by various studios from the large publisher. Such is the case with Eidos Montreal, which, although it already has Deus Ex 3 in the works, has just announced that Thief 4 was in the early development sta... |
13 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Eidos is now wholly owned by Square Enix and the company is taking a cold hard look at itself, trying to make the best games it can in order to emphasize that the financial problems had no effect on the quality of the products it puts out.So, Ian Livingstone, the president of Eidos, says that the decision to delay th... |
13 May 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Japan has been one of the central points on the world map in terms of technology for the last few decades. This has also been true in terms of video games, as a lot of consoles and titles have appeared from the Land of the Rising Sun and have gone on to gain critical acclaim across the whole wide world. But, lately,... |
5 May 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Comic books have offered a lot of material for other branches of the entertainment industry, spanning from movies to TV series. But the gaming industry hasn't been oblivious to them and has turned to them in order to get stories and heroes for different video games. The most recent company to take on a comic bo... |
4 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Now that Eidos is officially and entirely the property of Square Enix, the Japanese publisher might again go out and seek new companies to acquire. Yoichi Wada, who is the president of the company, sees acquisitions as the first steps in a global expansion strategy for Square Enix.Wada has talked to the Financial Tim... |
30 April 2009
02:04 GMT |
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Eidos is one of the most important European video game publishers and the owner of IPs such as Tomb Raider, Hitman or Kane and Lynch, making it, at least in theory, a very successful company. Sadly, practice isn't perfect and, along the years, the UK-based company hasn't been doing so good. Luckily, the Sq... |
29 April 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that the acquisition of the United Kingdom publisher Eidos is now complete and that all the assets of the former company are the property of the Japanese publisher. The company has also revealed a set of numbers related to sales of videogames, showing the strength of its various franchises.F... |
27 April 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Comic books have been a never-ending source of ideas for a lot of Hollywood filmmakers, which have adapted the stories of a lot of heroes from them into blockbusters for the silver screen. Among them, DC Comics' Batman has been one of the most busy, charting an impressive amount of movies. But the video game in... |
27 April 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Eidos Interactive, which is now owned by Square Enix, is announcing that it plans to release a demo version of Battlestations: Pacific on April 30 on both Xbox Live and the Games for Windows Live Markeplace.In the upcoming demo for Battlestations: Pacific, players will get access to a mission taken from the American ... |
24 April 2009
12:41 GMT |
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2008 was one of the biggest years in gaming as a lot of great titles appeared last year. 2009, however, is looking to be even better in terms of new titles, as well as highly anticipated sequels. We've already heard Activision brag about how Modern Warfare 2, the follow-up to one of biggest games of 2007, Call o... |
13 April 2009
02:52 GMT |
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It's now pretty much official. Eidos has announced that its shareholders, who have seen their company felled by financial problems, have approved the take over by Japanese publisher Square Enix. A little over 85% of those still holding on to Eidos shares have voted yes. They will get a little less than half a do... |
31 March 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Pony Friends is a pet-simulation video game developed by Tarantula Studios and published by Eidos Interactive, the company that is also responsible for hit releases such as Tomb Raider or Hitman. The title appeared only on the Nintendo DS and was launched on May 18, 2007 as an attempt from the UK-based publisher to e... |
20 March 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Pony Friends is a pet-simulation video game developed by Tarantula Studios and published by Eidos Interactive, the company that is also responsible for hit releases such as Tomb Raider or Hitman. The title appeared only on the Nintendo DS and was launched on May 18, 2007 as an attempt from the UK-based publisher to e... |
19 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Video games are becoming extremely popular these days, and a lot of people are buying them because they want to try out new things, or see their favorite characters from other branches of entertainment delve into new adventures. That is why the comic book industry has developed a pretty long partnership with the gami... |
16 March 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Square Enix is getting ever closer to its stated aim of acquiring the publisher Eidos. It seems that the offer of shares of the videogame company is going well and that Square Enix is set to achieve its goal of expanding into the Western games market.Insight Investment Management and Pioneer Investment Management are... |
26 February 2009
02:18 GMT |
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The economy isn't going through the best of times right now, as more and more companies are posting lower profits and even losses and have already employed some pretty drastic layoffs or headcount reductions through their staffs. But a lot of people say that the best deals happen when the prices are low. As suc... |
19 February 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Action adventure games are very popular these days, as more and more developers want to bring something new to the whole genre. But although other companies want to push the envelope, Eidos is sticking with the tried-and-true method to its famous Tomb Raider series. The lovely Lara Croft embarked on her latest advent... |
11 February 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Eidos Interactive is announcing its plan to release Shellshock 2: Blood Trails on February 13 in Europe. The game is the sequel to Shellshock: Nam '67, which was released by Eidos in 2004 and will take the players interested in a good mix of first person shooting and horror back to Vietnam, in another dangerous ... |
4 February 2009
03:31 GMT |
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In the gaming industry a few franchises have gained a somewhat cult following, one of them being the famous Tomb Raider series, which made Eidos a very profitable company a long time ago. The success was largely due to the fact that the main character was the lovely Lara Croft who wasn't your usual treasure hunt... |
23 January 2009
02:41 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider franchise is one of the most famous series of adventure video games out there. Thanks to the lovely Lara Croft, the Eidos-owned IP (Intellectual Property) has sold very well, and has seen a lot of iterations throughout the years. However, it seems that things aren't going so well for the latest ... |
12 January 2009
03:34 GMT |
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It seems that Time Warner is the front runner in the race to acquire Britain-based publisher Eidos Interactive. The latest sign is the fact that the American media giant has acquired another 10 million shares in the videogames company, even as rumors about its problems amplify. Time Warner already had a stake in Eido... |
17 December 2008
05:03 GMT |
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Eidos Interactive is quite a popular company these days, not with fans, as they haven't received Tomb Raider: Underworld with wide-open arms, but with other companies, which are interested in buying the British developer and publisher of games.We've already reported on the fact that Electronic Arts and Ubis... |
5 December 2008
11:01 GMT |
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It's a bad time for medium and small videogame developers and publishers. The credit crunch which is affecting the world wide economy means that it's getting harder and harder for them to find sources to finance developing new games. And when financial problems show their ugly face, bigger companies, which... |
3 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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