Well had a search but cant find a previous thread so starting one.

Did advise that I had bought this one on Monday after what I felt was a temporary fall, and lucky for me it seems to have been the case.

Evil K rates this one as one of the cheapest stocks on the market and feels it as a long way to go yet. Its now risen for the last 4 days and looks from the chart of breaking through into a gap with plenty of upside.

Financials to follow.

Do we have any gaming experts who can put forward the plusses and minuses??. I know Dessert Storm 2 is supposed to be bringing the punters in, and I also know that a weekend paper said trading was well ahead of budget.

Any contributions pro or against would be much appreciated.

cheers GF. NB, please DYOR. You are responsible for your buying and selling.

Unfortunately, it is no good clicking on the EPIC because there is a dot after it. SEG.

Suggest, that you start the thread again.

Apple will ask Ian the moderator if he will put the dot in place my appologies.

cheers GF.

Cheers moderator. Gf.

Just a summary of how SEG fund games development.

How do Sci fund games development?


SCi use several methods to fund games development

1) They pay milestones and thus fund the development themselves as with CDS2 and TGE

2) They simply buy the publishing rights to a title a developer has developed itself and then pay a higher royalty to reflect the reduced risk to SCi. Futurama is an example of this where the devloper bought the IP and developed the game. Timesplitters for Eidos was another example

3) They strike an agreement with the developer such as with Richard Burns Rally whereby Warthog are fully funding the console versions and SCI the PC version. As a result SCi will pay WHOG a large royalty untill development is covered. At which point SCi will then heavily reduce that royalty paid and increace their share of the profits. This type of deal is excellent as you get a very incencitised developer leading to a top title at no risk to SCi who then take profit from the title on good sales.

SCi are funding the Development of the PC title on Burns Rally under a more normal arrangement for a format which in the past has done very well

So in summary SCi's development costs are an excellent balance of risk where they choose what risk they are prepared to take on each title to maximise SCi's income whilst at the same time increacing the games portfolio size without increacing their comaparative costs for development.

cheers GF.

Results early december and trading above expectations.

SCI Entertainment Group PLC
08 October 2003

SCi Entertainment Group Plc

Pre-close trading update

SCi Entertainment Group Plc ('SCi'), a leading UK based computer games
publisher, is today issuing a trading update prior to entering the close period,
ahead of its preliminary results for the year to 30 September 2003, which will
be announced on Monday 8 December 2003.

During the second half-year SCi released, on schedule, three new titles:
Futurama, The Great Escape and Conflict: Desert Storm 2. Overall, the three
products have exceeded SCi's initial expectations. The Great Escape and
Conflict: Desert Storm 2 in particular, have enjoyed a strong showing in both
the Sony PS2 and All Formats charts. With SCi's back catalogue game, Conflict:
Desert Storm also selling well throughout the year, SCi expects pre-tax profits
for the year will exceed current market expectations by approximately 20%.

The first half of the 2004 financial year will benefit from the strong initial
performance of Conflict: Desert Storm 2, which was only released on 19 September
2003, close to SCi's financial year-end. Following last week's acquisition of
Pivotal Games - the developer of Conflict: Desert Storm and Conflict: Desert
Storm 2 - the Conflict series will make a greater contribution to SCi's profits,
with a greater share of royalties now retained within the Group.

With a number of new launches planned for the 2004 financial year, including
Richard Burns Rally and the third game in the hugely successful Conflict series,
SCi begins the new financial year with confidence and a determination to
continue to build shareholder value.

For further information, please contact:

For media enquiries:

Robin Tozer
Bell Pottinger Financial Tel: 0207 861 3891

For investor enquiries:

Neville Harris
Bell Pottinger Financial Tel: 0207 861 3894



This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

Cheers GF.

The 6th month chart showing increases in volume and a steadily rising price.





cheers GF.

Goldfinger

Seem to recall Max Damage highlighting this when you were extolling the virtues of ZOO on another BB. Is this all your own work! Hmm!

Full TA on Sci Entertainment.

Technical Analysis: SCi Entertain (SEG.L) Last Time Updated Friday November 7

Performance Summary

Last Price 120
Since Dec. 31st 142.42%
Last month -2.44%
Last week 9.09%
Reference Index FTSE 100 INDEX
Correlation 0.23
Support 98.5
Resistance 132.5
Trend UP


Short Term Commentary

The market is slightly oversold and without a clearly defined short term trend. A price recovery to the 112.95 level can as well be expected.

Medium Term Commentary


Medium term price trend for SCi Entertain is still bullish this week. This stock overperforms the FTSE 100 INDEX by 118.46 %. Volatility has been decreasing during last month.



Risk Analysis

Alpha 0.0122
Beta 0.73
R2 0.05
Relative Performance 118.46%
Relative Strength 2.44
Retractment from maximum -9.43%
Quarterly Volatility 44.04%
Distance to 20 moving average 6.24%
Distance to 200 moving average 66.78%


cheers GF.

Brought to top for Admin. Thanks Guys.

cheers GF.

Hi GF

The moderator did nothing, the dot shouldn't be there.

Ask him to take it off.

TA showing the price trend has broken above both the 20 day and 200 day moving average and the latest golden cross occured early November.



cheers GF.

Hi Goldfinger,

Did you know your thread for SCI Eentertaiments is not showing up on AM Quotes for epic SEG and if you click on the epic alongside your heading epic SEG. isn't recognised because of the full stop. Perhaps Moderators will make the change as it will help this thread to be picked up again if it falls of the BB recent list.

Requested. GF.

Cheers GF, and thanks. Your threads are excellent topics and spot on with the latest breaking news. Well worth keeping track of.

rgrds

Any further thoughts on SEG? Seems to have been oversold recently and now looking very attractive. Would be grateful for more views.

Lots happening in the background with this one at the moment and is only a matter of time before news is released.

Firstly on the 4th of September SCi will have its biggest ever UK shipout for its Conflict: Vietnam (PS2, xbox and PC)and Richard Burns Rally (PC), coupled with a European ship this will put SCi above forecast for the year.

C:V and RBR PC are getting great press and anyone with any doubts about the sales of C:V need only spend a fiver on Xboxworld throwing away the mag but putting the CD in a player. It has 4 pieces on C:V including intro's and talks with Pivotal. On a full screen it looks awesome and will be the only new squad based game on the market this fall. AFAIK this will be the 1st SCi game to have national TV advertising in UK and Germany and will also have a major TV campaign in the US.

Heres an example of the ad although I have heard it will be cleaned up to be even more impressive http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/conflict3/promo.zip.html

However prior to this expect some news on "project x" still unannounced by SCi although through a huge amount of research I have worked out what it is. I will not say, I'll leave it down to SCi, but they have either got very lucky or were aware of changes before anyone else. The game should have been out in September to coincide with worldwide release of its IP, this would have only given 1 year build of the game and most publishers were not intereted as there was no gurantees the game would be finished in time to the quality required. However the owners of the IP realised they had stumbled on something big and decided to spend more time and money on the IP and delay it untill February. All of a sudden the game will not only be finished in time but will have time for a few months extra polish. Whilst other publishers were slow off the blocks SCi realised this and signed it up before any other vultures got their.

This game will help SCi double H1 '04 revenues and they will still have all their major releases in H2 '05 except twice as many as this year. FY '05 revenues could easily treble this years and will promote SCi as the largest UK quoted publisher with or without the exsitance of EID.

Resistance at 140p these days, not a bad trading share i reckon.