SCi Entertainment Group have announced it will change its name to Eidos plc with effect from 3 December 2008. The Company’s trading (ticker) symbol will also change from SEG to EID on the same date. SCi Entertainment Group is the holding company of Eidos Interactive, creator of some of the world’s leading video-game properties.

Eidos plc consists of several development studios including Crystal Dynamics, Io Interactive, Beautiful Game Studios, Eidos Game Studios and Eidos Montreal as well as sales and distribution offices in Europe and the US. The Group has a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex, Championship Manager, Carmageddon and Just Cause.

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SCi Entertainment, the owner of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider computer games franchise, is in bid talks once again.

It follows a nightmare year for the firm in which its losses have quadrupled and the share price has slumped 92 per cent.

A source familiar with matter said discussions are at an ‘early- stage’ and that SCi received approaches from two separate firms within the past few weeks.

The first is understood to have come from America’s Electronic Arts, the world’s second biggest computer games company.

It has always featured strongly in bid chatter that has surrounded SCi.

But it faces competition for SCi from France’s Ubisoft, which the source says has also made an approach.

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