Ubi to buy Codemasters? EA bid $300m for Eidos? Britsoft is dead.
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Bluemercury
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jarrod said:That'll teach the UK market for ignoring GBA.
So is Climax like the only indy studio left there?
And Gamecube for that matter lol........both Codemasters and Eidos ignored both platforms....perhaps now we might see Colin Mcrae on gamecube at last....
Plenty of dev studios just no publishing. If these two deals go through the only genuine UK owned publisher I can think of is SCi and that's only in Europe, usually selling right to Take Two for the US. Pathetic considering how the European market was dominated by Ocean, Masteronic/Virgin, US Gold and Codemasters in the late eighties and early nineties. Somehow it has all slipped away.jarrod said:
Market capitalisation of $284.76m while I'm typing.
Optimistic
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jarrod said:
Huh? Eidos is shite now; it's not the mid 90s anymore, buddy.
T-1000_Model3
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Why doesn't EA just let out a belch already,fuck I hope they don't get CodeMasters or Eidos.
Nintendo needs to start making moves on Bandai, Capcom or some companies. If they don't, EA, Ubi Soft, etc. will be owning the market at some point. I mean, really, the market is really consolidating big time. Even a company as big as Nintendo could be left in the consolidation dust if they don't make some moves soon.
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
T-1000_Model3 said:
EA wants to own Lara. The end.
T-1000_Model3
Banned
Now that Tomb Raider is under a new development staff,and its original creator has returned to lend a hand-EA sure leave Laura alone and stick to Madden and the Need for Speed series.
Or hell,let Nintendo buy Eidos for Tomb Raider alone,though I can imagine how fruity they would make her :b I'm sure it would play great though. EA need to back off and just keep counting their money.
Or hell,let Nintendo buy Eidos for Tomb Raider alone,though I can imagine how fruity they would make her :b I'm sure it would play great though. EA need to back off and just keep counting their money.
I think the reason for mediocricity of EA is simply that the PS2 has the biggest base so it's their lead platform.. EA CAN make stunning looking games (see their PC exclusives, Battlefield 2, Battle for Middle-Earth), I think come next-gen we're going to see a lot of very impressive looking games from EA.
ToyMachine228
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Free Radical and Zoonami are independant as well...Oh yeah, then there's Llamasoft...And Kuju...There's plenty.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
T-1000_Model3 said:
If EA or someone doesn't buy Eidos, it will be nothing but a memory in a few years.
TheGreenGiant
Banned
eidos has been dead for a long time now. (on the console front that is).
and lara has been dead since TR2.
and lara has been dead since TR2.
only thing that scares me is EA getting hold of the Championship Manager name, its gonna be hard enough for Sega to convince the million and a bit people that used to buy champ man that they need to be buying Football Manager now instead. If most of the casuals that buy it see EA sports and Championship Manager on the box they will probably suffer a wallet convultion and buy it on the spot.