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Eidos
Eidos may refer to: * Eidos (philosophy), a Greek term meaning "form" "essence", "type" or "species" * Eidos Interactive, a British video game publisher ** SCi Entertainment Group, its parent, which was briefly renamed Eidos Ltd. ** Eidos Hungary, a defunct Hungarian development studio formerly of Eidos Interactive ** Eidos-Montréal Eidos Interactive Corporation (trade name: Eidos-Montréal) is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal and part of Embracer Group. The studio was founded by Stéphane D'Astous in 2007 under SCi Entertainment. It became part of Squar ..., a Canadian development studio of the same group * EidosMedia, an Italian publishing software company. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London. Among its franchises were '' Championship Manager'', '' Deus Ex'', ''Hitman'', '' Thief'' and ''Tomb Raider''. Domark was founded by Mark Strachan and Dominic Wheatley in 1984. In 1995, it was acquired by software company Eidos. Ian Livingstone, who held a stake in Domark, became executive chairman of Eidos and held various roles including creative director. Eidos took over U.S. Gold in 1996, which included developer Core Design, and merged its operations including Domark, which created publishing subsidiary Eidos Interactive. The company acquired Crystal Dynamics in 1998, and owned numerous other assets. In 2005, parent Eidos was taken over by games publisher SCi. The combined company, SCi Entertainment Group, which was briefly renamed Eidos, was itself taken over by Square Enix in 2009. Square Enix completed the merger with Eidos Interactive by November 2009, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidos-Montréal
Eidos Interactive Corporation (trade name: Eidos-Montréal) is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal and part of Embracer Group. The studio was founded by Stéphane D'Astous in 2007 under SCi Entertainment. It became part of Square Enix Europe in 2009 and CDE Entertainment in 2022. History Eidos Interactive announced plans to open a Montreal-based subsidiary studio in February 2007. Eidos Interactive Corp. was incorporated in March 2007. Eidos-Montréal formally opened with general manager Stéphane D'Astous on 26 November 2007. According to D'Astous, unlike other video game development studios, Eidos-Montréal's development cycle as characterized by smaller teams (totalling to 350) working over a longer period. The same year as its founding, the studio announced to work on a ''Deus Ex'' project. In May 2009, the studio announced to work on the fourth installment of the ''Thief'' series. D'Astous resigned from Eidos-Montréal on 19 July 2013, citing irreconcila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SCi Games
SCi Games Limited (formerly The Sales Curve Limited and SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Limited) was a British video game publisher based in London. The company was founded in 1988 by Jane Cavanagh and floated on the stock exchange in 1996. In May 2005, SCi's parent company SCi Entertainment Group plc acquired Eidos plc, the parent company of publisher Eidos Interactive, and merged their operations by June 2006; that company was briefly renamed Eidos Limited and was subsequently acquired by Square Enix in March 2009. Both SCi Games and Eidos remain shell companies under Square Enix Limited. History Jane Cavanagh, formerly an executive for British Telecom's Telecomsoft division, founded The Sales Curve in 1988, following a trip to Japan that convinced her of the potential of the video game industry. Cavanagh established and ran the company without external funding, and owned 100% of the company's shares. The Sales Curve published their games under the label Storm and was renamed SC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidos Hungary
Eidos Hungary (formerly Mithis Entertainment) was a Hungarian video game developer based in Budapest, Hungary. History The company was founded as Mithis Entertainment in March 2002 by former Philos Laboratories employees. Between 2002 and 2006, the studio produced '' Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' (2004), a strategy video game, and ''Creature Conflict: The Clan Wars'' (2005), a shooter game. In 2006, British video game publisher Eidos Interactive acquired Mithis Entertainment and renamed it Eidos Hungary. In July 2006, The Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of N ... reported Hungarian authorities investigated intellectual property theft complaints by former Mithis and stakeholder MGE Software. SCi Entertainment categorically denied wrongdoing, stating the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidos (philosophy)
The Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas, also known as Platonic idealism or Platonic realism, is a philosophical theory credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. A major concept in metaphysics, the theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as Forms. According to this theory, Forms—conventionally capitalized and also commonly translated as Ideas—are the timeless, absolute, non-physical, and unchangeable essences of all things, which objects and matter in the physical world merely participate in, imitate, or resemble. In other words, Forms are various abstract ideals that exist even outside of human minds and that constitute the basis of reality. Thus, Plato's Theory of Forms is a type of philosophical realism, asserting that certain ideas are literally real, and a type of idealism, asserting that reality is fundamentally composed of ideas, or abstract objects. Plato describes these entities only through the characters (primarily Socrates) in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |