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Chart-topping Batman: Arkham Asylum will be getting a free instalment of downloadable content during September. Eidos has confirmed that the PC, XBOX 360 and PS3 editions will each be receiving it. No confirmation on the exact quantity of the DLC, yet.

In a revolutionary move, Eidos Interactive has announced it will offer a downloadable edition of Championship Manager 2010 on a Pay What You Want price model. This means that until the 10th of September 2009, all players will need to pay is a £2.50 transaction fee, plus any additional amount of their choice, starting from [...]

Eidos Interactive has announced that two of its biggest titles this year will be getting demos before their respective full releases. The Batman: Arkham Asylum demo will be released this Friday morning. Championship Manager 2010 will follow a week later on Friday August 14th. Both demos will be available on GameShadow.

Eidos Interactive has trademarked the next Kane and Lynch title. Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days is scheduled for release towards the end of the year. Eidos has the likes of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Mini Ninjas due this year too. Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days is the follow up to Kane and Lynch: [...]

Eidos has released the Battlestations Pacific Demo. A mission from the US campaign, plus two multiplayer modes are available to sample. The sequel to the 2007 World War Two strategy title is fully released in mid-May on PC and XBOX 360. It’s top of the GameShadow Newsletter as well, along with the latest content. If [...]

Warner Bros. has announced it is planning to re-launch Lara Craft in a new Tomb Raider movie. Early details suggest the movie will re-ignite the character’s origins, as well as her love and enemy interests, and move away from the style of the two previous titles starring Angelina Jolie. No names of the director and main [...]

Eidos Interactive has re-vamped the website for Tomb Raider Underworld. With the game due for release next week, an Experience Website has been unveiled that allows players to sample a special game set in the Mediterranean. The demo was also recently released, as Lara gets further press and exposure.

I’ll be frank. There’s one reason I’m posting this. Honestly, we could simultaneously post huge news on Elite IV, WoW 2 and Half-Life 3, and a scantily clad receptionist from Croydon would still get the best clicks. In other news, find out why Tomb Raider Underworld will suck right here.

This is slightly old news, but we’ve got a big Hitman community here, and it came up in another post, so I thought I’d make it official. Hitman 5 is definitely in production at IO Interactive, the developer of the first four (increasingly brilliant) games. The news came about via page 17 of an Eidos [...]

It’s been a busy old week for Eidos, and one partially in keeping with the company’s changeable successes in the last year or so. Long story short, a much needed cash injection has arrived, courtesy of stock purchase by Warner Bros. SCi, Eidos’ parent company, first announced that it was taking purchase offers, in order [...]

Following financial difficulties at SCi, the parent company behind British publisher Eidos, the company’s senior management team have quit under pressure from shareholders. Jane Cavanagh, Bill Ennis and Rob Murphy were tasked with finding a buyer for the struggling publisher of Tomb Raider - a situation made no easier by the recent furore over Kane & Lynch. [...]

Over at the Official Championship Manager group on the social network, our friend Keir at Eidos has been generous enough to put up an exclusive competition where football fans can win twenty copies of CM2008 Mobile – the perfect pick up and play football management game for all those long trips to work. All you have to [...]

IO‘s most recent – and ill-received – game, Kane & Lynch, perfectly indicates gaming’s obsession with cinematic values. Time and time again we ask why games seek to compete with and copy another, entirely distinct medium. Gaming has enough of its own to offer, it need not rely on over-familiarity with its linear peer. And someone outside [...]

Montreal seems to be the vogue place to open studios these days. With the opening of the Eidos Montreal development studio comes the official announcement of Deus Ex 3. Details are understandably scarce, but the studio is looking to take on up to 100 staff by the end of the year. There’s a teaser trailer with [...]