{"id":8284,"date":"2007-01-25T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/eidos-sheds-light-on-past-and-future\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:57:52","slug":"eidos-sheds-light-on-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/eidos-sheds-light-on-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Eidos Sheds Light on Past and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>SCi Entertainment Group<\/i>, owner of the publishing label <i>Eidos<\/i>, has announced it\u00b4s revenue figures for the first six months of the financial year, to 31 December 2006. Group\u00b4s revenue for the first half is expected to exceed \u00a370 million (about 106 million EUR) which is a 40 % increase compared to last year. New product releases accounted for approximately 50 % of revenues.<br \/>\n<i>Just Cause<\/i> was the most successful new title. Eidos believes it will sell over one million units before the end of current financial year. The sequel to Just Cause is under development.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tomb Raider<\/i>, <i>Hitman<\/i> and <i>Championship Manager<\/i> will see new versions on next generation consoles. Also, completely new titles of <i>Age of Conan<\/i>, <i>Kane &#038; Lynch<\/i> and <i>Crossfire<\/i> will be published in the near future. Exact publishing schedule is still open. <i>Battlestations Midway<\/i> is coming out as planned in February 2007 for Xbox 360 and PC.<\/p>\n<p>SCi Entertainment Group starts a partnership with <i>Warner Bros<\/i> as announced earlier. SCi will license intellectual properties including <i>Batman<\/i>, <i>Looney Tunes<\/i> and properties from the <i>Hanna Barbera<\/i> catalogue. Group expects returns from this investment from the 2008 year onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner of the game publisher Eidos, SCi Entertainment Group, has announced increased revenue of  40 % for the first six months of the financial year. Sequel to the game Just Cause is under development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news\/8284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}