SCi Games
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SCi Games Limited (formerly The Sales Curve Limited and SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Limited) was a British video game publisher based in London. The company was founded in 19881 by Jane Cavanagh and floated on the stock exchange in 1996. In May 2005, holding company SCi Entertainment Group plc acquired Eidos plc, the parent company of publisher Eidos Interactive, and merged their operations by June 2006; that company was briefly renamed Eidos. It was acquired by Square Enix in March 2009 and subsequently absorbed in November of that year.
SCi Games Limited (formerly The Sales Curve Limited and SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Limited) was a British video game publisher based in London. The company was founded in 1988 by Jane Cavanagh and floated on the stock exchange in 1996. In May 2005, holding company SCi Entertainment Group plc acquired Eidos plc, the parent company of publisher Eidos Interactive, and merged their operations by June 2006; that company was briefly renamed Eidos. It was acquired by Square Enix in March 2009 and subsequently absorbed in November of that year.
History
Jane Cavanagh, formerly an executive for British Telecom's Telecomsoft division, founded The Sales Curve in 1988, following a trip to Japan that convinced her of the potential of the video game industry. Cavanagh established and ran the company without external funding, and owned 100% of the company's shares. The Sales Curve published its games under the label Storm and was renamed SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) in 19941. Its parent company, SCi Entertainment, floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 1996. By February 1999, SCi Entertainment reported a turnover of . In February 2004, the company acquired Pivotal Games. In October 2004, SCi announced publishing agreements of its games for the Gizmondo handheld. In January 2005, SCi invested in Rocksteady Studios, acquiring 25.1% of the company's shares.
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Official website archived in 2005
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