Previous
Eidos misses film opportunity
News Eidos, the interactive games publisher that owns the rights to Lara Croft, is missing out by not releasing a new game to coincide with the film based on its famous character, according to industry observers.
[June 15, 2001, 13:44]
Eidos faces lawsuit from Columbine parents
News Eidos, the UK company that created Lara Croft and the Final Fantasy computer game series warned on Wednesday that it was facing a £3.4bn lawsuit from the parents of the teenagers killed in the Columbine massacre of 1999.
[June 6, 2001, 16:49]
News Burst: Eidos losses widen
News UK games developer and publisher Eidos (EID: quote )Wednesday announced wider losses in its first-half earnings. In a statement Eidos chairman Ian Livingstone chalked the losses up to a slow period in games releases and "a number of strategic...
[November 24, 1999, 12:07]
A Year Ago: ECTS - Lara sweeps Awards, Eidos shares soar
News The Eidos Interactive smash hit took the prize for Marketing Campaign of the year and PC Game of the year. Developer of the year went to TR's authors - Core Design, with Eidos also picking up the prize for Publisher of the Year.
[September 8, 1998, 6:13]
Eidos shares shoot up
News The City had Eidos up to 925p on early trading this morning, following an 18 per cent rise from 740p to 870p yesterday, after the company said sales for the October-December quarter had doubled year on year to four million units.
[January 22, 1998, 13:07]
Premier moved goalposts in football game deal - Eidos
News Commenting on the collapse of negotiations with the Premier League for a £10 million deal which was to give Eidos exclusive rights to all of the insignias, strips, and names of all of the players in football's Premiership, Sparks added: "For the...
[September 10, 1997, 9:55]
ECTS: Lara sweeps Awards, Eidos shares soar
News The Eidos Interactive smash hit took the prize for Marketing Campaign of the year and PC Game of the year. Developer of the year went to TR's authors - Core Design, with Eidos also picking up the prize for Publisher of the Year.
[September 9, 1997, 16:08]
Lara Croft can't rescue Eidos
News Shares of Eidos (quote: EID), the UK's biggest gaming software maker, took a tumble in early London trading after the company warned its upcoming earnings will be well below expectations. Last year Eidos earned £37.92m.
[January 18, 2000, 12:38]
Lara sends Eidos sales through the roof
News But Eidos told the City yesterday that sales across its range had sky-rocketed even faster than expected with preliminary estimates indicating Eidos sold about four million games in the key October-December quarter of 1997, doubling the 1996 total...
[January 22, 1998, 10:20]
The Tomb Raider returns
News As if the announcement of a brand new Tomb Raider game wasn't enough, publisher Eidos and developer Core Design have also revealed the latest in a long line of models chosen to play the virtual heroine at events and in publicity shots.
[March 21, 2002, 14:26]
2000 Roundup: The dot-com bubble pops
News UK games company Eidos (quote: EID), unlike Freeserve, started 2000 with low expectations and they were borne out. By the end of the year several Eidos executives had departed, including the chief executive officer.
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
Nokia aims to N-Gage gamers
News The launches in Sydney and London saw the Finnish handset maker reveal further alliances with Eidos Interactive, THQ, Taito Wireless and Activision. Fifteen game titles were previewed, including ports of Eidos' Tomb Raider and Sega's Sonic the...
[February 6, 2003, 9:23]
Sony: Dreamcast 'half' of PlayStation2
News For the PlayStation2, some companies have a programming staff of 12 just to develop a game," said Greg Rizzer, spokesman for game publisher Eidos Interactive's console development team, who contrasted that to Sega's Dreamcast.
[September 14, 1999, 8:59]
News Schmooze: The end of the merger marathon
News In far more important news, Eidos revealed its latest real-life model for Lara Croft this week, along with a preview of the next game, Dark Angel. The HP buyout of Compaq looks set to go through, although there will probably be scenes reminiscent...
[March 22, 2002, 13:06]
Comdex: PowerVR gets power games titles
News The titles came from a bunch of industry heavyweights including Eidos Interactive, Electronic Arts, Gremlin Interactive, Virgin Interactive and LucasArts and include Tomb Raider II, Hexen II, FIFA: Road to the World Cup 98, Actua Soccer and...
[November 21, 1997, 10:04]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News There were whispers of alleged insider dealings linked to Eidos shares as they hit the ceiling. Early this week, the Luncher mooched around the ECTS games trade show, at London's Olympia, blagging free beers and hogging the consoles.
[September 13, 1997, 8:00]
The Luncher
News Of course, the bearded wonder was referring to Micrografx and Eidos/Core's time-bombed calamities earlier in the week. He was holding forth in the snug of a pub just off Piccadilly Circus where cigarette smoke and London traffic fumes fight for...
[November 1, 1997, 7:00]
Xbox losing the numbers game
News New versions of Eidos' "Tomb Raider" and Electronic Arts' "Medal of Honor" franchises will also be available only for the PS2, as will upcoming online and offline updates of the "Final Fantasy" series from longtime Sony booster Squaresoft.
[May 27, 2002, 14:44]
Java on mobiles: Write once, run... once?
News Jon Newth, founder of Kuju entertainment, which is now a part of games giant Eidos, said it is the consensus among games developers that Java will be "the next big thing" in mobile phones. The Java programming language was built on the premise that...
[September 3, 2002, 10:41]
Exclusive: Playstation 3 - AMD 2GHz CPU running Linux
News An Eidos insider said: "You should see the graphics. (This is an April Fools news story) Reports from the Tokyo Games Show, suggest that the Sony's next generation console (code name AP1 -- or PlayStation3) will be based on a 2GHz version of AMD's...
[April 1, 2000, 15:38]
