Didn’t I just write yesterday about all these gamer houses merging?  Good gawd, man.  Pretty soon, there are only going to be monster-sized game developers/publishers, and as we’ve seen from EA and Activision, that’s not always a good thing.  The axe just keeps on falling, and this time, another well known studio gets enveloped.

Find out who after the jump!

One of the last major bastions of British video game publishers, Eidos, was yesterday officially bought out by Square Enix, who in turned re-branded their new acquisition Square Enix Europe.  That’s right, no more Eidos!

Damn, I guess this means that Agent 47 is going to be sporting some massive Japanese RPG spiky boy hair cut now and Lara Croft will be looking at a breast enlargement with some purple hair.

Of course, Square Enix was trying to allay everyone’s fears that they are going to rape the Eidos brand like some of these other game mergers have happened.  Square Enix plans on leaving “Eidos” alone as a separate wing of the company and that Eidos is free to conduct daily operations, having them run as an independent unit.  For now.

You cannot tell me that this is a good thing.  So far, these giant companies coming in and scooping up these smaller organizations…I mean, we’re watching Bobby Kotick from Blizzard/Activision flapping his e-peen around last week with his threatening to pull support for the PS3 due to poor sales, and now EA busy smashing companies like Mythic and Bioware together like some retarded kid playing with a chemistry set.

These hard economic times are making the business of video gaming an untenable proposition for most developers, and we’re seeing the results.  Big companies means big bottom lines, which means they don’t care about you as a gamer.  They care about you as a consumer.   They care about the green in your pocket.  And the larger and more unwieldy these freakin’ companies get, the further and further they get from innovation and risky enterprises, and the more likely we’ll see Rock Band 5, be beaten about the head with microtransactions and questionab30ly expensive downloadable content.

I’m sure this isn’t the last studio to go under, so buckle up and let’s see who’s next to fall.

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