Eidos-Montreal Founder Resigns

<p>Stephane D&&num;8217&semi;Astous&comma; Eidos-Montreal founder and GM of the company&comma; has resigned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;develop-online&period;net&sol;news&sol;44902&sol;Ex-Eidos-Montreal-head-resigns-over-irreconcilable-differences">Develop<&sol;a>&comma; D&&num;8217&semi;Astous states that his resignation is due to the &&num;8216&semi;irreconcilable differences&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;lack of communication&&num;8217&semi; between Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix Europe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Since last year’s financial short-coming performance of Square Enix Europe&comma; we &lpar;HQ London and GM Eidos-Montreal&rpar; have had growing and divergent opinions on what needed to be done to correct the situation&period; The lack of leadership&comma; lack of courage and the lack of communication were so evident&comma; that I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t able to conduct my job correctly&period; I realized that our differences were irreconcilable&comma; and that the best decision was unfortunately to part ways&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>David Anfossi&comma; who was an executive producer on <em>Deus Ex&colon; Human Revolution<&sol;em>&comma; will serve as D&&num;8217&semi;Astous&&num;8217&semi; replacement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;