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With the redesigned Tomb Raider: Legend and Anniversary games getting rave reviews from the gaming press and gamers alike, it is strange to see parent company SCi taking a hit financially. All does not seem to be going well several years after the buyout and takeover of Eidos Interactive. Eidos has had some serious flops in the last few years and the whole Kane and Lynch fiasco with gamers and Gamespot did not help matters any (although that game did sell over a million copies).

Bloomberg UK let readers know that the stock for SCi was down to a paltry 83 pence ( about a $1.68USD) and that it was going to have some serious issues with cash to meet its upcoming 2008 lineup and pay obligations. Four games, including the newly announced Tomb Raider: Underworld have been pushed out to 2009 and there is no guarantee at this point that they will have the money to actually get those games released. Looking more and more like Atari at this point, SCi made investors aware after trading hours that it will not be able to get full value out of the gaming unit if it is sold to another company.

Funny thing is that everyone had doubts about this merger when it happened and now it all seems to be coming to fruition now. The only thing that would put a fitting end to this story is if EA swooped in and decided that it needed another company under its belt to catch up to Activision Blizzard.

With help from Bloomberg UK