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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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Mar 06 2009

Eidos posts 6-month revenue hike

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From gamesindustry.biz:
Eidos has released its financial results for the six months to the end of December 2008 with a relatively strong statement, including revenues up over 26 per cent and losses cut to just GBP 1 million.

"The first six months of trading this year were characterised by an incredibly competitive and increasingly challenging [...]

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Jan 13 2009

Eidos disappointed with Tomb Raider: Underworld sales, stock drops

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From joystiq.com:
Following UK publisher Eidos Interactive’s announcement that sales of Tomb Raider Underworld didn’t hit its internal forecast, the publisher’s shares dropped 25% this morning (there’s been some slight recovery since). Eidos states that Lady Croft’s latest adventure, since its debut in November, sold 1.5 million copies by the end of 2008, which makes [...]

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