The Eidos games that could be revived with the Embracer acquisition

metro.co.uk:

Fans are hopeful that with Eidos and Crystal Dynamics no longer at Square Enix, they can revive some dormant franchises.

In case you somehow weren’t aware, Square Enix has sold its Western developers and their IP to the Embracer Group for just under £240 million. That’s essentially everything that used to be British company Eidos, including its studios, Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal, and franchises.

Square Enix says this is to fund future blockchain projects, but no one cares about those. Instead, the sale has people talking about what the former Square studios will do at Embracer. More Tomb Raider is a safe bet, but many are hopeful that Embracer will give long-abandoned franchises the oppurtunity Square Enix wasn’t willing to.

Eidos has quite the library, having been publishing games since 1995 and with roots that go all the way back to Domark in the 80s. That was before it was bought out by Sales Curve Interactive (SCi), which had been around since the early 90s and games like Amiga classic SWIV.

With over 30 years’ worth of games in their back catalogue, there’s a lot of old IPs that could see a revival going forward. Although which will get the chance to live again remains to be seen…

Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way first. There hasn’t been a new entry in the futuristic action role-playing series since 2016’s Mankind Divided, with Square Enix being disappointed in its performance and cancelling plans to expand the franchise further.

We did get Shadow Of The Tomb Raider and Guardians Of The Galaxy instead, which isn’t a bad consolation prize, but developer Eidos-Montréal has been as eager to return to Deus Ex as the fans are. With any luck that includes Embracer.

Eidos-Montréal only ever made one