Currently, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy are Square Enix’s three pillars. President Yoichi Wada wants to expand this number to eight.

Eidos as a publishing entity no longer exists. Instead, Eidos’s presence in PAL territories has been assimilated into a restructured Square Enix Europe, which is going to be run by Eidos CEO Phil Rogers.

Interchannel is bringing the charming bubble blowing game, Soul Bubbles, to Japan under the name Awatama (Bubble Bullet). But, something looks well… different. In this version the shaman looks like an anime fairy with purple hair.

Square Enix didn’t buy Eidos just for Tomb Raider. The acquisition quadruples their development studios and gives the house of Final Fantasy a huge presence in Europe.
 
A visual representation illustrates this better. Before…

 
and after…

… the Eidos takeover. Triangles are development studios. Circles are operation centers.
 
In addition to using Eidos content like Deux [...]

The board of directors governing Eidos and Square Enix have settled on a buyout bid of 84.3 million GBP an equivalent of $119.8 million going by today’s exchange rate. Both parties will move forward with a shareholder recommendation at the next meeting and if at least 75% of the shareholders accept the offer Square [...]

I was looking forward to figuring out the mystery of what Linger in Shadows is last week. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe said it was coming out on August 28, but it was a no show. Now the interactive experience is pegged to come out sometime in September.
 
Also coming out in September on the PSN is [...]

 
Visitors to the Eidos booth at E3 were treated to a walkthrough of the introductory stage of Tomb Raider: Underworld, the eigth installment in the series and the third developed by Crystal Dynamics. Lara starts off this installment with scuba gear, which she equips to visit the ancient ruins located at the bottom of [...]

Despite the Kane & Lynch controversy in North America notable FPS publisher in Japan, Spike, picked up the title and it isn’t getting a slipshod localization. Many Western games contain English voice acting with appropriate subtitles in Japan, but not Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Spike pulled Naoya Uchida who recently did the voice for [...]

The ESRB has two games from Eidos rated for the PSP and PlayStation 3. I doubt Eidos has plans for another Pandemonium remake, but I can see them selling it as a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store. Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain looks like it’s in the same boat. Nice, but I’ll hold out [...]

Last month, Eidos announced that their monster-building action RPG Monster Lab would be heading to the Wii and Nintendo DS. However, Monster Lab may not be appearing solely on Nintendo systems after all. GameFly has a listing for a PS2 version of the game, apparently set to come out on May 31st, though this is [...]