Eidos´ Jon Brooke, head of UK marketing, has recently stated his opinion on the upcoming action game Batman Arkham Asylum. According to him, it will be one of Eidos´ best games ever.

In an interview with MCV Brooke said:

Golem.de reports that the negotiations between the Japanese publisher Square Enix (Final Fantasy) and Eidos Interactive (Tomb Raider) have come to an end.

Square-Enix will pay about $117 million to Eidos´ stackholders. This includes Time Warner, which is presently calling 20% of Eidos his own. more...

Lara Croft is back. In Tomb Raider: Underworld she once again explores ancient temples, ruins, underwater cities and fights not only with generic bad guys, but also with the wildlife along her way. According to the first reviews, she also fights with a rather dumb storyline and camera problems, although apart from those traditional problems the game seems to be well worth playing. more...

Update: It seems Eidos changed their plans with the PC demo. They'll release it on October 31. You can download it via the official Tomb Raider site. more...

Practically Just Cause 2 means to us: picturesque island, a hero with a quite silly name and lots of spectacular explosions. Swedish developer Avalanche Studios' big Christmas surprise is that they won't bring their ambitious game to the winterly Christmas shelves this year, as publisher Eidos announced. Just because: no reasons were named whatsoever. more...

Age of Conan always seemed to be the underdog on the MMO market. Why should anybody want to play a game set in the universe of a very aged barbarian out of some 80ies movies (the original Conan books by Robert E. Howard are from the 30ies)? more...

This recent picture of our beta character in Age of Conan not only shows why it is interesting to have Scandinavian designers program an MMO (note how craftily we have placed the headline so that you are "forced" to click on it to see the whole picture), but also that Dorcas is in urgent need of the reward item Funcom has just offered to loyal beta testers a few minutes ago: If they registe more...

SCi Entertainment, parent of Eidos, recently confirmed that it is going ahead with a plan to raise significant cash in the capital markets through a stock offering. SCi Entertainment also confirmed that it has received an indicative acquisition offer from Infogrames (parent of Atari). more...

SCi Entertainment, parent of Eidos, confirmed that it received and rejected an offer to acquire the company. more...

The massively multiplayer online game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures from Funcom and Eidos is gold and will reach stores in North America on May 20 and in Europe on May 23. more...