Eidos Interactive
Status: bought
Country: U.K.
aka(s): Eidos
Eidos was founded in 1990 as a video services company and for the first five years of its existence was focused upon developing its proprietary video codec (compression / decompression) software, Escape.
Later the company acquired the following companies:
1995 - Domark
1996 - U.S. Gold
1996 - CentreGold
1998 - Crystal Dynamics
2004 - IO Interactive
Bought by SCi on 2005-05-16, then by Square Enix on 2009-04-22. Eidos name will cease to be used when the "brand" is renamed to Square Enix Europe.
It is known for Arena Wars, Batman: Arkham, Battlestations, Championship Manager, Commandos, Deus Ex, Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest Monsters, Fear Effect, Final Fantasy, Gauntlet, Gex series, Hitman, Just Cause, Kane & Lynch, Kingdom Hearts, Legacy of Kain, Myth, Original Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Main series, ShellShock, So Blonde, Supreme Commander, Test Drive, Tex Murphy, Thief, TimeSplitters, Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider 2006 Reboot, Way of the Samurai
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Top platforms
Windows | 132 | ||
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PS | 48 | ||
PS2 | 47 | ||
Xbox | 39 | ||
X360 | 21 | ||
Nintendo DS | 19 | ||
PSP | 15 | ||
Dreamcast | 13 | ||
Wii | 12 | ||
PS3 | 9 | ||
GameCube | 8 | ||
Saturn | 7 | ||
GBA | 5 | ||
Mobile | 5 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 5 |
WIN 2000-06-22
PS1 1996-11-15
PS3 2008-11-18
WIN 2008-11-18
WIN 2003-12-02
PS1 2000-11-30
WIN 2000-04-14
WIN 2010-03-02
X360 2006-04-25
PSP 2006-11-28
WIN 2000-02-29
PS1 1998-10-31
Eidos Interactive best rated games
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 | 2001 | win | |||
Batman: Arkham Asylum | 2009 | x360 | |||
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines | 1998 | win | |||
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 | 2001 | ps2 | |||
Anachronox | 2001 | win | |||
Deus Ex | 2000 | win | |||
Revenant | 1999 | win | |||
TimeSplitters 2 | 2002 | xbox | |||
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin | 2002 | win | |||
Thief Gold | 1999 | win |
Eidos Interactive worst games
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness | 2003 | win | |||
Deathtrap Dungeon | 1998 | win | |||
Conflict: Denied Ops | 2008 | win | |||
Timeline | 2000 | win | |||
Daikatana | 2000 | win |