Eon Digital Entertainment was a computer games publishing company based in London, UK, operating globally. It was founded by John Burns, now of Electronic Arts and a former Managing Director of

Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one ...

Europe as well as senior management figure at Atari, Sega and Bandai. Other management included Sara Pelton of Ubisoft&Activision, James Cato of Take 2 Interactive and several other experienced industry management figures. The company was founded in 2000, initially targeting the PlayStation and Game Boy platforms. Later they went on to also publish several PC and PlayStation 2 games, the first one was called ''Airfix Dogfighter''. In 2000 the company merged with an Italian distributor, gaming TV station and website to form

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, a planned 'Total gaming company' which subsequently floated on the Italian stock exchange in late 2000. In 2002, Eon was closed after Burns departed the company leaving some developers like Bethesda Softworks to search for new publishers. Eon for example had been set to release '' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'' and '' Sea Dogs'' in Europe as well as ''Star Trek Elite Force'' and others.

Games published

* '' Airfix Dogfighter'' (PC) * ''

Crime Cities ''Crime Cities'' is a video game for Microsoft Windows. Developed and published by Techland and EON Digital Entertainment in 2000-2001 (and later by Big City Games and Gathering of Developers), ''Crime Cities'' is an action game that incorporates ...

'' (PC, 2000) * ''Mission: Humanity'' (PC) * ''SUper'' (PC) * ''

Super Bust-A-Move , released as ''Super Bust-A-Move'' in Europe and North America, is a puzzle video game in the ''Puzzle Bobble'' series. It was developed by Taito, and released on November 27, 2000 by Acclaim Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, and by CyberFro ...

'' (PC) * '' Z: Steel Soldiers'' (PC, 2001) * '' Builder's Block'' (PlayStation) * ''

Chaos Break ''Chaos Break -Episode from "Chaos Heat"-'' is a third-person shooter survival horror brawler game that was released for the Sony PlayStation in 2000. Chaos Break is the sequel to the 1998 arcade game An arcade game or coin-op game is a c ...

'' (PlayStation) * ''Formula Nippon'' (PlayStation) * ''

K-1 Grand Prix ''K-1 Grand Prix'', known in Japan as ''Fighting Illusion: K-1 Grand Prix '98'', is a video game based on the K-1 martial arts organization in Hong Kong and the K-1 World Grand Prix, developed by Daft and published by Xing Entertainment in Japan i ...

'' (PlayStation, 2000) * ''

Wild Rapids is a water sports video game developed by Fujimic, Inc in 2000 for the PlayStation is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service ...

'' (PlayStation, 1994) * ''

OverBlood 2 is an action-adventure video game developed by Riverhillsoft for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to the game '' Overblood'', released on the same platform. The game was published in Japan by Riverhillsoft on July 23, 1998, while a European ver ...

'' (PlayStation, 2001)

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