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Fighting Fantasy Author Ian Livingstone Honoured With Order Of The British Empire
If you’ve ever read a Fighting Fantasy book, dabbled with a Games Workshop product or enjoyed a game from Eidos, then the name Ian Livingstone should be familiar to you. It it’s not, well, it will be now, as Livingstone has been named in 2012′s New Year Honours List.
Life President Of Eidos On Tomb Raider: No ‘Intention To Present Rape As Part Of The Game’
Ian Livingstone has led the kind of life that makes everyone else look like a lazy bum sitting under a bridge chewing bubblegum all day: he co-founded Games Workshop, co-wrote the first Fighting Fantasy book, and is now the life-president of Eidos. He was heavily involved in the original Tomb Raider, and had some thoughts on the new reinvention of the character in the upcoming Crystal Dynamics reboot.
Fighting Fantasy Follow-Up Preview: Fear My Stylus
It’s been a little more than two months since I last saw Fighting Fantasy – the DS action/adventure RPG based on a choose-your-own-adventure book series of the same name. Here’s what’s changed since then.
Eidos Prez: Rocksteady Is Not Doing Hitman 5
A British actor listing voice and mo-cap work for Hitman 5 through U.K. dev Rocksteady sent around the buzz that series developer IO Interactive might be off the case. Not so, says Eidos chief Ian Livingstone.
Fighting Fantasy DS Preview: Choose Your Own Adventure Makes A Comeback
Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was a 1982 choose-your-own-adventure book written by now-game developers Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Now it’s a 2009 DS action role-playing game.
Eidos: Sequels, And Sequels To Sequels
Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed.
Eidos President For Life
In the wake of British game company Eidos being acquired by Japan’s Square Enix, Order of the British Empire honoree Ian Livingstone has been awarded a new title.
Eidos Exec: UK Establishment Sees Gaming As Step Above Porn
The image of video games has been steadily improving for some time now. Besides gaming’s entertainment value, the mainstream folks are realising that games make tons and tons on moolah. Countries like Canada, France, Singapore, South Korea as well as in Scandinavian countries and two states in the US. But in the United Kingdom, no dice. Ian Livingstone, Eidos’ creative director, explains why: It seems to me the UK government would rather see our great industry go into decline than help it maintain its prominent position in the world, and that is madness…
We’re still seen as the red-headed stepchild of the creative industries, one notch up from pornography in the eyes of most of the establishment. They forget that half of the world and half of the UK’s population play games. Games help define who we are as human beings — they are as important, culturally and socially, as music and films.
Things Looking Up For Eidos
Publisher Eidos has been having a tough time of late. Earlier this year, the company slashed 25 percent of its workforce and revamped its internal structure to a more studio-based one. While Eidos has been quiet since February about how things are panning out, creative director Ian Livingstone says:
“The restructuring is going very well. We have been very upfront about what we are as a business and where we are going. We have put in place a studio-led and product-centric operation and everybody is now happily on board… Having a focused team based around our cornerstone franchises means one team based in the same office, country and time zone so that they can explore every opportunity directly alongside the game’s development.
Well, that’s good.
The State of Play at Eidos [Edge via MCVUK]
Next Tomb Raider “Well In Development”
You know all is well with the world when the sun rises, sets, and you hear that the Tomb Raider series is still kickin’ around. Tomb Raiders Legend & Anniversary have given the once-flagging series a major kick in the ass, and now we have news that the next game in the series is well underway. No thanks to Core, though, they were stinking up the place, it’s all down to Crystal Dynamics. Eidos’ Ian Livingstone: The next Tomb Raider is well in development now. It was a very bold move for us to move the development from [developer]Core over to Crystal Dynamics in the US. It was a difficult decision, but we had to do it, because of Angel of Darkness not meeting our expectations.
Poor Core. They didn’t do it on purpose! Eidos’ Ian Livingstone On The Future of Tomb Raider [SPOnG]
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