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Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and computer games based in Britain. Its most well-known game series include Tomb Raider, Commandos, Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain, and Thief.Founded in 1990 as a company specialising in video compression, Eidos began moving into games in 1995 with the acquisition of Domark (known for 3D Construction Kit , Championship Manager, Hard Drivin' , and many others). They also bought out Core Design (probably best known for Chuck Rock , Curse of Enchantia, Heimdall, and Rick Dangerous) and US Gold ( Cybercon III , E-Motion, and Out Run).
The company maintains offices all around the world, including the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east, FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents., AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count and JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh.
On August 3rd, 2004, the Wall Street Journal reported that Eidos is in preliminary discussions with a small number of companies in relation of a possible business combinations, Eidos was quoted in WSJ as stating "These discussions are at a preliminary stage and there can be no certainty as to whether or not they will lead to an offer being made for the Company in due course."
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