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News General News Lara Croft's Family On The Rocks?
| Lara Croft's Family On The Rocks? |
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| Written by Starfox |
| Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:00 |
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Aha... A bit of gossip. Hey! Gamers too have the right to amuse themselves with celebrities gossips (well at least video games celebrities). But rest assured, we're going to keep it gentle which means no secret video of Lara Croft's entertaining private exercises. Instead we have a roaming fire inside of Lara's household. Few among you will now the company SCi. That's normal, it is not known to gamers under this name. Eidos however should tell you something. SCi (known as Eidos in the gaming world) are the holders of well known franchises such as Tomb Raider, Deus Ex or Thief... Lately, there were some talks going on to sell Eidos to some other company (Electronic Arts, Time Warner and Ubisoft were interested) but SCi issued last Thursday a statement announcing that these talks were over since apparently some new opportunities emerged for the company. However, it's not really what financial Times Online seems to think describing furious shareholders wanting the heads of Jane Cavanagh (Chief Executive), her husband Bill Ennis (Commercial Director) and and Tim Ryan (chairman). Despite the announcement of "new opportunities" the current financial situation of Eidos shows all the symptoms of a big mess and the share price for Eidos fell from 520 pennies (10 USD -- July 2007) to 68 pennies (1.33 USD -- last Friday just after the announcement). No wonder why the shareholders are furious. Maybe SCi should have given a little clarification about the "new opportunities" that should miraculously allow them to regain the 450 pennies a share lost during the few preceding months. That comes with the announcement that all of the major Eidos titles (including the next Tomb Raider) were delayed until the end of 2008 which consequently means little money coming to Eidos until then (Eidos apparently borrowed 30 millions GBP (about 59 millions USD) just to keep them afloat, waiting for better times). What does all this means for us gamers? Well, I let you guess some issues at hand like for example: Eidos just opened Eidos Montreal to work on Deus Ex 3 and chances are that if it comes to financial rethinking of their situation, poorly advanced projects as this one will be the first dropped (Deus Ex: IW having been a flop, Eidos shareholders are certainly not in a rush to see it happening again especially when like Eidos Top investor Robert Tchenguiz one just lost an estimated 80 millions GBP -- about 157 millions USD -- in the venture). Chances are that Eidos will be in for another round of "who wants to buy me" soon enough... And now I'm sure that you would have preferred a secret video of Lara Croft playing with her favorite pal... |