The action, the guns, the short shorts, the breasts... games publisher
Eidos last night announced the latest version of its Tomb Raider series of computer games, with Lara Croft returned from the dead.
Last we heard, general manager Stephane D'Astous was expressing excitement about how they'll be cooperating with Square Enix — which acquired
Eidos last year — to give the title Final Fantasy - quality cinematics.
Not exact matches
Activision is absent from the list of top 10 games, as are all other publishers in the industry except Nintendo, EA and Square Enix (the
last of which recently bought Batman publisher
Eidos).
Eidos» troubles began with slumping sales and even after slashing jobs and canceling several games early
last year, they still found themselves in a multi million dollar deficit.
«Over the
last 18 months the team has been working very hard on the development of the Director's Cut,» said David Anfossi, Head of Studio for
Eidos - Montréal.
The head of
Eidos Montreal, David Anfossi, has confirmed to Trusted Reviews that we haven't seen the
last of the Deus Ex series.
A new game in the series has been previously confirmed by
Eidos» life president Ian Livingstone;
last May he freely admitted that a sequel «is being worked on.»
After first announcing it early
last year,
Eidos is now bringing Just Cause 2 to E3 2009.
Last week we mentioned how Thief 4 was probably one of the worst kept secrets in gaming after
Eidos kept dropping hints about a «AAA» game starting with the letter «T.» Today,
Eidos Montreal has blown the cloak off the whole affair and officially announced that Thief 4, head - shakingly written as Thi4f, is the real deal.
Next year will mark ten years since the
last entry in the Legacy of Kain series, despite it being a profitable and generally well - received series for
Eidos.
And while the
last game in the series, Defiance, wasn't a huge success for
Eidos back then, there is a lot about this franchise that could really attract both old fans and newcomers if it is handled well.
I just wish
Eidos Montreal would've added that original difficulty setting, even as a day one DLC add - on (see: Metro
Last Light's «Ranger Mode»), for those looking for the ultimate hardcore experience.
«Since
last year's financial short - coming performance of Square Enix Europe, we (HQ London and GM
Eidos - Montreal) have had growing and divergent -LSB-...]
Despite the little Gamespot review fiasco that took place late
last year,
Eidos» and IO Interactive's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has sold rather well — over 1 million copies worldwide since its mid-November release
last year.
Eidos Montreal and Square Enix launched the latest entry in the Deus Ex series
last August.
Sources say
Eidos Montreal has cancelled a planned sequel to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which came out
last year.
When Square Enix and
Eidos Montreal revealed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
last April, my excitement level rose to new heights fueled by thoughts of what the developers could achieve on new hardware.
Announced in
Eidos»
last annual report, the game is not due until 2009.
He apparently is not the only lead level designer to hop off the team — Pierre - Olivier Clement, the previous lead level designer, apparently moved to another project at
Eidos Montreal
last year.
One of the more mystifying absences from
last week's E3 was
Eidos Montreal's Thief 4, a game which has been in development for four years — an amount of time that encompasses the entirety of the development cycle for the studio's first game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
The result was a slide for the
Eidos - owned US studio, from 15th position
last year.
Having late
last month confirmed plans to release Deus Ex: Human Revolution — Director's Cut on Wii U, Square Enix have today released the debut trailer for
Eidos Montreal's critical...
Last year the company acquired UK - based
Eidos, and this year it posted record results, bolstered in part by strong sales of the company's Batman: Arkham Asylum, on top of its home - grown hits Dragon Quest IX and Final Fantasy XIII.
Eidos entered a slump, culminating in its takeover
last year by the much smaller UK games publisher SCi.
The title, and other snippets of information about Shadow of the Tomb Raider were leaked in November
last year when an eagle - eyed Reddit user saw someone - presumably an employee of Square Enix Montreal,
Eidos Montreal or someone from Crystal Dynamics on a work trip - open their laptop to have a look at a Tomb Raider slideshow presentation.
We heard about the Thief reboot
last month; we were introduced to
Eidos Montreal's The City and the return of an iconic character.An earlier teaser suggested that the trailer would be out on April 2, but it appears to have leaked early.
Square Enix has faced a lot of problems in rceent times, but the one lone spot of hope for their fans has been
Eidos, the company that Square acquired in an unlikely acquisition, and that has, against all odds, gone on to deliver some of the best Square published titles in the
last few years.
Apparently, as of
last Friday,
Eidos Montreal's General Manager and founder, Stephane D'Astous, has resigned.
«Since
last year's financial short - coming performance of Square Enix Europe, we, at HQ London and GM
Eidos Montreal, have had growing and divergent opinions on what needed to be done to correct the situation,» he said.