Eidos Hungary (formerly Mithis Entertainment) was a Hungarian video game developer based in

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History

The company was founded as Mithis Entertainment in March 2002 by former

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employees. Between 2002 and 2006, the studio produced '' Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' (2004), a

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, and ''Creature Conflict: The Clan Wars'' (2005), a

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. In 2006, British

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Eidos Interactive acquired Mithis Entertainment and renamed it Eidos Hungary. In July 2006,

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reported Hungarian authorities investigated intellectual property theft complaints by Mithis and MGE.

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categorically denied wrongdoing, stating the article confused ''Battlestations: Midway'' and '' Joint Task Force'' to clarify. SCi took over the development after being dissatisfied with MGE by exercised its contractual right, which MGE demanded compensation for prompting the allegation according to SCi. Following the acquisition, Eidos Hungary went on to work on

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games '' Battlestations: Midway'' (2007) and '' Battlestations: Pacific'' (2009). On 19 April 2010,

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confirmed that they had shut down Eidos Hungary in October 2009, due to the discontinuation of the ''Battlestations'' franchise. The CEO of Square Enix Europe, Phil Rogers, said “We were pleased with Eidos Hungary, but I think we realised that to be first or best in the RTS genre was going to be really challenging. It wasn’t necessarily something we were going to win”.

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