Tag Archive 'takeover'

Apr 22 2009

Court Approves Eidos Takeover by Square Enix

Published by Chris Comeau under News

How will this affect Eido’s Montreal offices?
From Gamasutra:
A court has approved Square Enix’s takeover of U.K.-headquartered Tomb Raider house Eidos, according to an announcement today by Eidos’ board of directors.
Square Enix hopes that the acquisition of a major Western game publisher will give the Tokyo, Japan-based firm a greater foothold in Europe and [...]

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Dec 01 2008

Tomb Raider owner SCi in takeover talks with Ubisoft and Electronic Arts

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From dailymail.co.uk:
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- [...]

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