This still seems strange to me that Square Enix wants Eidos Interactive.

Not really because Square wants to expand to the West even more, Square's purchase of Taito gave them a strong WiiWare and arcade presence, the Eidos purchase will give square popular western franchises, new distribution channels.

I know they want to expand, it just doesn't seem like any of Eidos's IPs fit in with Square Enix. Bethesda Softworks seem like more of a company that would fit in with them.

Well, I for one, welcome our new, 80-hour Tomb Raider RPG overlords.

Well Taito's IPs don't fit in with Square Enix's and that's the point they want the company to be more diverse, and business 101 always said to grab more userbase you have to diversify.

Aren't JRPGs shortening their hours in this generation? At least some console JRPGs clock in at 40 hours or so and the new DS Valkyrie Profile runs in at 20+ hours.

Anyway, I agree this is an odd purchase. I don't see what Eidos has to offer to Square Enix other than its name and western connections. On the IP side of things, is there anything besides Tomb Raider?

Haha, the title makes it seem like Eidos is taking over S-E..

What IP's does Eidos have besides Tomb Raider?

The 2 most well known would probably be Thief and Hitman.

Eidos published Monster Lab, which was one of my favorite games of 2008.  "Kids game," indeed!

There's also Deus Ex.

That may be the point, diversifying. They can already do long, boring FMVfests without outside help.

This. A thousand times this. The very first thought I had was "...well, this could only be good for Deus Ex 3."

SquareEnixTaitoEidos?  (SETE?)

I think it will be Eidos A Square Enix company, like how we see Taito games in North America. In Japan and Europe it's just outright Square Enix.

Does this mean Lara Croft will be in the KH3?

I kinda like, "SquarEnTaiDos" (w/ capitalization as noted).

(square-IN-tie-dose)

COMING SOON! Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Tomb Raider

Lara Croft in Nomura zipper clothes?

Sorry, KH already has Tifa.  :P

I'd hit it.

You'll have to clean the fridge before you fit her silicone in there.

Breast implants are too big for SD cards?  ???

I'm actually looking forward to
Final Fantasy XXX: Lara Croft


with interactive pointer controls this is guaranteed to sell 8-10 million WW on day one

Can anyone else remember any instances of a Japanese game company buying out an American one?  I can't. edit: Retro?

I wonder if there is going to be fat trimming, or the Eidos execs finding a profitable way to bail out. I'm actually betting on a whole lot of nothing getting done

Retro barely counts in my opinion. Nintendo bought them before they ever released a game.

After some quick checking, I did find another one. Sony purchased Naughty Dog in 2002.

This was Eidos' execs' fantastic bailout plan.  Basically, Square got Eidos like Microsoft got Rare.

These guys deserve to give Hairy Palm High-Fives to each other.

edit: Hairy

I'm not sure this was a good move on S-E's part.

I mean, instead of investing in... say... games for market leading platforms, they are buying a company whose employees are probably thinking now's a good time to get out.  This reminds me of when Microsoft bought the High Heat Baseball license from 3DO's rotting corpse.  They didn't do anything with it, so they just blew a fad wad of cash for nothing.