Eidos to be liquidated this month.

Deus Ex was indeed Ion Storm (and Warren Spector, no less), but it was published by Eidos.

I say, good riddance to bad rubbish. The Tomb Raider series was shit from the get-go, and a good deal of their publishing deals were crap as well - anyone ever try running the PC Final Fantasy VII on a remotely current machine?

 

if eidos is going, then maybe we'll see an complete version of legacy of kain 2 surfacing

 

are we talking about a real sequal to the first game ? and not the soulreaver games ?

 

ive been waiting for this day ever since i installed hitman 47 and it corrupted my hardrive.

 

Noo not Eidos! :no

Real shame. Still, their big products like Tomb Raider and Championship Manager will be bought. Maybe someone will take an interest in them for those products.

Now let's see. British companies in the past were traditionally bought by Infogrames, who are now Atari. Its possible that they might - but I'd probably put my money on EA buying them!

*edit* umm, a game can't corrupt a hard drive - that is physical damage. If you suffered physical damage, your hard drive was defective anyway. It is marginally possible that it could destroy windows files, but that would only require a reinstall at the very worst. I've never heard of problems with Hitman, though. Were you using a proper retail bought copy?

 

I'm still rather pissed about buying three (yes, three) defective Tomb Raider III discs. The copy I have now still doesn't work properly, but it will cooperate if used in a DVD drive (the good ol' Samsung 616T, never failed me).

 

If it uses a certain copy protection (laserlock is a bugger), then some drives won't read it. Its just that you have a crap drive that doesn't like laserlock.

 

I tried it on three different computers. My DVD player struggles with it, but it will read. I still think it's the disc, as I got all three from the same store. It might have been a defective shipment or something.

 

Good riddance.
The first tomb raider was something fresh and new but after that it was just shit shit and some more shit.
I'm not sorry to see them go in any way.

 

when i said corrupt hard drive, i didnt mean actual physical damage, i had to reinstall windows and i lost a bunch of personal files...the harddrive worked fine after that. i tried to install the game on another hard drive with a completely different setup and had similar results.

the copy was retail, i contacted edios and ioi several times and i could never get a straight answer. i posted on the their support messageboard numerous times as did other people with similar problems, edios response was to delete the thread. after awhile they just wiped the entire forum clean, then they closed it down completely.

 

Finally, they are gone.

 

Anyone want a job?

hehe

 

WTH^ did they fire those people or did they just quit?

(investors) Edios stock will be dirt cheap soon and if someone like EA picks them up there is a few bucks to be made.

 

I think we should consider that there are more companies than just EA looking for potential take-overs... How about Atari, Codemasters, Ubi Soft, Sega even?

 

It's been bought

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/21/news_6120834.html