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Championship Manager 5 is the fifth installment of the popular Championship Manager of football management simulation video games. It is the first game in the series to be developed by Beautiful Game Studios after the much publicised split between Eidos Interactive and Sports Interactive .
Beautiful Game Studios was founded in 2003, [5] and announced in January 2004 as an internal development team of Eidos Interactive (later renamed Square Enix Europe) that would focus on the development of Championship Manager, after the original developer of the series, Sports Interactive, departed from Eidos Interactive in 2003. [6]
Eidos Interactive was a British video game publisher and developer, ... Championship Manager 5: 18 March 2005: Beautiful Game Studios: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation ...
Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London. Among its franchises were Championship Manager, Deus Ex, Hitman, Thief and Tomb Raider. Domark was founded by Mark Strachan and Dominic Wheatley in 1984. In 1995, it was acquired by software company Eidos.
Sports Interactive kept the base code, the game database and programming of the game, whilst Eidos kept the rights to the Championship Manager franchise. [ citation needed ] On 28 June 2012, Miles Jacobson and Ian Livingstone revealed why they split from Eidos Interactive and joined Sega.
[1] [2] These developments led to a further announcement that future Sports Interactive football management simulation games would be released under the famous Football Manager brand name. Whilst the Championship Manager series would go on, Eidos no longer had any source code or a developer for Championship Manager. [3] [4] [5]
Studios under Square Enix Europe developed titles belonging to franchises previously published by Eidos, such as Tomb Raider, Hitman, Deus Ex, and Championship Manager. The Championship Manager series has seen the greatest number of releases, at nine games on four platforms, followed by the Tomb Raider series at six games across eleven platforms.
Championship Manager 2006 is a football management simulation video game in Eidos Interactive's Championship Manager series. It is essentially a seasonal update for Championship Manager 5. The game was developed by Beautiful Game Studios and was released on PC Windows on 31 March 2006.