Sunday, September 18, 2005

Carmageddon development halted?

SCI/Eidos is rumored to have halted the development of mega hit Carmageddon. Read more about the news over here.

COMMENTARY
I think that this puts the merger into rather dubious light, because major part of the logic was in the arrangement that Eidos gets some desperately needed extra funding to complete the development cycle of their hits like Lara Croft and Carmageddon. Now big part of that business logic has been amputated. Well, some downsizing will do the trick, just hope that they don’t downsize back to zero.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Vivendi comeback

Vivendi is finally benefiting from the digital entertainment strategy that it chose under the command of Mr. Messier. Blizzard happens to be one of the best performing parts of Vivendi. Company is also making strides in the field of mobile music sharing. As a personal comment, they finally seem to get back into the ring after hanging in the ropes for quite a few years.