Eidos Releases Numbers

Eidos plc today revealed its fourth quarter numbers for the period ending March 31. The company responsible for Tomb Raider made 23 million pounds sterling (around US$37.7 million) in revenue for that quarter, up from 2.5 million ($4.1 million) the year before. The company's total profit before tax during the quarter amounted to 4.6 million pounds ($7.5 million), up from a loss of 593,000 pounds ($972,932) for the same time last year. Revenues for the year ended March 31 were 75.5 million pounds($123.8 million), compared to 3.5 million pounds ($5.7 million) for the 15 months that ended in March 1996.

Over the past year Eidos has signed a ten-year publishing agreement with ION Storm, along with multi-title deals with Clockwork, Tigon, Pure Entertainment, and Looking Glass Technologies (a four-year exclusive that includes Flight Unlimited 2 and Dark).

It agreed to publish MGM Interactive's titles in Europe, including The Ultimate James Bond and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Eidos invested in Innerloop Technologies (a Norwegian game developer) and sold the majority of the Silicon Dreams game development division.

The record quarter results can be attributed to sales of five games, which include The Ultimate James Bond and the Duke Nukem: Atomic Pack. Over the year, Eidos released 28 new titles.

A few Eidos products, however, haven't been doing too well: Orionburger, Hulk, Masters of Dimension, and Jetfighter 3 (games commissioned by CentreGold before it was acquired by Eidos).