Eidos plc
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Formerly called
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Fate | Merged with Square Enix Limited |
| Successor | Square Enix Europe |
| Founded | 29 March 1984 |
| Founder | Stephen Bernard Streater |
| Defunct | 9 November 2009 |
| Headquarters | Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Stephen Bernard Streater (Founder) Ian Livingstone (Eidos President and CEO) Phil Rogers (Square Enix Europe CEO) |
| Products | List of Eidos games |
| Revenue |
 £179.1 million (2006)
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£28.8 million (2006)
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£8.1 million (2006)
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SCi Games (2005–09) Square Enix (2009–) |
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Number of employees
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600 |
| Website | www.eidos.com |
Eidos Interactive Ltd. (/ˈaɪdɒs/) was a British software technology developer and video game publisher, now operating as Square Enix Europe. The company was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton. The company has had offices all around the world, including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Australia and Japan.
Prior to its best known games, Eidos developed full motion video (FMV) compression techniques on platforms such as the RISC OS computers of the early 1990s. Its best-known game series include Tomb Raider, Hitman, Commandos, and Deus Ex. Eidos became part of Square Enix on 22 April 2009. Following a reorganization of the company, Eidos was merged with Square Enix's European operations into Square Enix Europe. The Eidos brand currently lives only through the development studio Eidos Montréal, and is also used as a label for games developed by former Eidos-owned developers like Crystal Dynamics and IO Interactive released before take-over by Square Enix Europe.
In 1996, Eidos Technologies merged with Domark Software, Simis, and Big Red Software, all of them being traded under the holding company Eidos PLC. Eidos acquired CentreGold in April 1996 for GB£17.6 million. CentreGold consisted of the distributor CentreSoft and the publisher U.S. Gold. The Eidos acquisition was months prior to the release of Tomb Raider by Core Design, which CentreGold had acquired two years prior.
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