Eidos Interactive (Eidos plc)

Eidos Interactive was the video game publishing arm associated with the British company Eidos plc, best known in the 1990s and 2000s for publishing major game franchises such as Tomb Raider, Hitman and Deus Ex. Operating primarily as a publisher (and owner of several internal and third-party development studios), Eidos Interactive marketed and distributed a broad slate of console and PC titles across multiple genres. Titles such as Battlestations: Pacific were part of Eidos's mid-era catalogue when it was an active publisher in the global games market.

The Eidos brand grew through the late 1990s and 2000s and became a prominent name in action-adventure and stealth PC/console games. In 2009, the company and its game assets were acquired by Square Enix (becoming part of Square Enix Europe), and many of the Eidos studio operations and IPs were later sold or reorganized (notably in industry transactions in the 2010s and early 2020s). The original Eidos Interactive brand is largely histori...