Square Enix agrees to buy Lara Croft company, Eidos

Posted Feb 12, 2009 at 8:28AM by QJ Staff Listed in: News Tags: Eidos Interactive, SCi Entertainment, Square Enix

Square Enix to buy Tomb Raider firm Eidos - Image 1
She kinda looks like Aerith too

Can you imagine Lara Craft wielding a gunblade?

Looks like the future of Lara Croft is in the hands of Final Fantasy studio, Square Enix. The latest news is that Eidos Interactive, the company that owns the Tomb Raider franchise, will be bought by Squeenix for GBP 84.3 million (a whopping US$ 120.8 million).

This is good news for Eidos, who's been having rough patches for some time now and has been looking to merge with other studios since last year, when they were still called SCi Entertainment. Squeenix's investors aren't jumping for joy though. When this news hit, Eidos' shares in the market jumped, Squeenix's shares dropped.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Squeenix plans to do with some of Eidos' franchises, like Hitman, Kane & Lynch, Legacy of Kain, and Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Clearly not their style when it comes to games.

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Comments

# LOL Squeenix — jgr9 2009-02-12 04:12

I've never heard that one before. XD Then again I've never played any of the FFs and don't pay attention to companies much.

# .... — Silver-Tiger 2009-02-12 04:12

Now it's clear, Square Enix has become the Japanese EA....

# Where does Square Enix get the money for this? — sickofitall 2009-02-12 04:49

last I heard their sales were down. And still no released games for the ps3.

# I dunno... — Mooshywooshy 2009-02-12 05:06

Probably from their insanely successful Final Fantasy series, MMO, and 50034023240x other games for Wii, Xbox, DS, etc etc etc.

But yeah, kinda weird they havent squeezed out a PS3 game yet, but many coming out that look great!

# What's next? — Antic 2009-02-12 05:07

A Lara Croft RPG?

# Oh God — Azuman 2009-02-12 05:10

The Agreement from Eidos came very fast, I did not expect that, Let us see how that will affect Eidos Games

# ! — HIDEO KOJIMA 2009-02-12 05:19

WTF! Lara Croft in KH3!?.... Lara and Yuna (X-2) are going trigger happy on some heartless....

# Best news I have heard today. — muffinhead 2009-02-12 06:57

Do you guys even understand what you're reading? sheesh

# Zomg! — Gameeye2 2009-02-12 09:13

Lara Croft??!! *Fap Fap Fap*

Oh sorry... reflex..

# mmmm boobage — yorbs 2009-02-12 09:23

i would so max out her boobs to lvl 99

# ROFL — Guest 2009-02-12 09:38

You made my day man hahaha

# Honestly — hush404 2009-02-12 10:11

I have more respect for EA as it stands. Square is all over the place trying to buy up crap - ugh, they use to be known as quality RPG .... but I can see stuff turning for the worse now that they're out to grab all kinds of stuff.

# So now what? — girandhistacos 2009-02-12 16:03

I really couldn't care less about the Tomb Raider or FF games. I was never fond of either of them.

I want to know what's going to happen with Deus Ex 3. Is it still going to be produced? Will it still be out by 2010?

The first Deus Ex was incredible and ahead of its time. The second one was a bit of a let-down, but Project:Snowbli nd was incredible.

I was hoping they could bring back the intensity of the series with the 3rd one on the latest consoles... I hope this stupid merger won't hamper production.

# - — mr.x256 2009-02-12 20:39

Maybe Microsoft has been bribing them.

# worries and hopes — yoshi314 2009-02-13 01:39

i bet some crazy minds at S-E are already plotting how to put TR, FF, KH and other franchise together into one game.

on the other hand, i'm worried that there is less and less place for smaller gaming companies. studios go down, or get bought out by the bigger ones.

it's killing the competition. and that is pretty bad for the customer.

# .... — aroxim 2009-02-26 11:28

nah dawg....

thats all i'll say

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