Bye Bye Eidos, hello Mechwarrior?

via Bigdownloads:

The consequences of Square Enix's purchase of UK-based Eidos earlier this year are now being felt. Gamesindustry.biz reports that a new entity, Square Enix Europe, is being formed that will handle all of Square Enix's publishing duties in Europe. The Eidos name won't be used for publishing anymore but will still be retained via its use in development studios such as Eidos Montreal.

This move will affect Eidos's sales and marketing personnel who will have their offices either transferred (in the US) or combined with Square Enix's operations (in Europe). Square Enix has already revealed that they expect "some jobs to be impacted directly by this in both Europe and North America." Specific numbers of layoffs were not announced.

On a happier note:

Fans have been awaiting a new Mechwarrior game for the PC for years and today a new video hit the Interwebs that suggests that wait may be coming to an end. The 10 second video shows a really big mech-like foot making its presence known on a unsuspecting city street.

So is this truly a teaser for a new Mechwarrior game? We know that Microsoft, who published the last PC game in the series (Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries back in 2002), sold off the Mechwarrior interactive game rights to a company called Smith and Tinker some time ago. That company was formed by Jordan Weisman, who helped to create the Mechwarrior series in the first place when he formed FASA. Voodoo Extreme hints that the developer behind this teaser might be Piranha Games, a Vancouver-based studio who has done a variety of work over the years but nothing quite so high-profile as this. Hopefully we will get more info on this soon.

Update: Looks like IGN will get the reveal of the game early in the morning on Thursday . . . and what do you know; one of the folks who will be interviewed will be Jordan Weisman.

So I new this guy who said that he was a go between for FASA and Microsoft. I didnt buy it, and now I feel vindicated.