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Lara Croft Saved? SCi Raising $119M From Time Warner, Others (TWX)

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2008-04-25 16:02:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
SCi Interactive, the company behind the 'Tomb Raider' franchise, is raising about $119 million in cash through sale of new shares . Time Warner (TWX) is buying about $30 million of those, on top of their $90 million investment in 2006, which, at the time, got them 10% of the company. That original investment is now only worth about $11 million...
 
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Lara Croft On Life Support? SCi Interactive Needs A Buyer

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2008-04-18 11:30:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
Is Lara Croft about to run out of lives SCi Interactive, which owns the Tomb Raider video game franchise, is in a bad situation: It has about $24 million in cash and about $200 million in debt. That won't keep the company running much longer: For the six months ending December 31, the company loast about $170 million on revenues of $150 million...
 
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Unit Converter & Sci-Calculator - Get scientific with this mathematical app

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2007-12-13 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Palm OS > Latest releases
If Doctor Spock had a Palm device then the chances are that a scientific calculator would be one of the first things he'd want to install. One highly logical solution for him is Unit Converter & Sci-Calculator, which includes an algebraic calculator, a unit converter, a periodic table of elements and a listing of physical constants The...
 
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'Tomb Raider' Maker Rejects Buyout Bid

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2008-04-23 16:26:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
SCi Interactive, the publisher of the Tomb Raider franchise, rejected an offer from an unnamed third party -- even though the offer was a "significant premium to the company's current share price,' TimesOnline reports . SCi said the stock offer still didn't provide enough value and had concerns about funding This bid is probably not from either...
 
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Is "Tomb Raider" Maker Outsourcing Labor To Warner Bros? (TWX)

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2008-04-28 15:24:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
Eidos, the publisher of the 'Tomb Raider' franchise, has reportedly laid off its entire North American PR, marketing, and sales staff because of an agreement with Warner Bros. (TWX), gaming news site 1UP reports Eidos' parent SCi is trying to save itself from going under by raising about $119 million in new shares , and Time Warner, which...
 
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Atari Saved! Video Game Icon Snapped Up For $11 Million

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2008-05-01 18:54:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
In November, Atari (ATAR) was flatlining; it posted a $11.9 million quarterly loss and said that there was 'substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.' That was before it stopped developing games . And then its CEO quit Now Infogrames, Atari's majority shareholder and the owner of the "Unreal" series, says its buying the...
 
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Microsoft Offers Decent Choice With Live Search News

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2008-04-16 16:50:06 by Paul Glazowski in Mashable!
The Web news aggregation business has two main leaders at the moment: Yahoo and Google . The first sits atop the other as far as traffic is concerned, but because Google has attained such an overwhelming share of the search market, its news-gathering footprint isnt so small. Its growing at a rapid rate. Indeed, the attention given the company by...
 
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FreeSCI 0.6.4 (Glutton branch)

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2008-05-19 01:40:37 by Editor in freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
FreeSCI is an attempt to re-implement the Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI), which was used in many of Sierra On-Line's games from 1988 to 1995. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes VM/kernel bugfixes. Most early SCI games are now beatable. Some legally questionable code has been eliminated. Support has been added for MT-32...
 
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Time Warner Pumps Money Into Another Video Game Company (TWX)

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2008-06-04 16:06:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
More evidence that big media wants in on the video game boom: Time Warner and Granite Global Ventures have led a $40 million funding round for Turbine, a video game developer responsible for Lord of the Rings Online In April, Time Warner pumped $30 million into SCi Interactive , the makers of the Tomb Raider franchise, even though their original...
 
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