The company was founded as Mithis Entertainment in March 2002 by former Philos Laboratories employees.
[citation needed] In July 2006, The Sunday Times reported Hungarian authorities investigated intellectual property theft complaints by Mithis and MGE.
[2] SCi Entertainment categorically denied wrongdoing, stating the article confused Battlestations: Midway and Joint Task Force to clarify.
[3] On 19 April 2010, Square Enix Europe confirmed that they had shut down Eidos Hungary in October 2009, due to the discontinuation of the Battlestations franchise.
[4] The CEO of Square Enix Europe, Phil Rogers, said “We were pleased with Eidos Hungary, but I think we realised that to be first or best in the RTS genre was going to be really challenging.