Lara Croft as we know her will be redefined with the upcoming release of Tomb Raider, a fresh take on the franchise by gaming studio Crystal Dynamics. Washed ashore on an unknown beach, the new Lara Croft is the same young woman we’ve known, but her sole purpose now is to survive. This is the real story behind Lara, are you ready to take the challenge?
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The murky world of gaming spin offs plunged to new lows last week when publisher Penguin and Ubisoft announced plans to unleash Assassin’s Creed 2: The Novel! But rather than priming a space on our book shelves and promising to read the book before we slide the disc into our PS3, we’ve primed a top ten of the worst gaming spin-offs ever. Hold onto your night vision goggles, we’ve unearthed some ‘classics’.
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The original Tomb Raider game was Lara Croft’s best-selling outing ever. It’s all been down hill since then. But in new figures released by Square Enix, which bought Tomb Raider owners Eidos this week, the worst-selling Tomb Raider ever (so far) is a bit of a surprise…
Beneath the Ashes – the first dollop of downloadables for Tomb Raider: Underworld has been pushed back due to a “technical issue”.
Struggling publisher Eidos is pinning its hopes on Lara Croft to fill its coffers once more as it announces a new set of downloadable content (DLC) for the Xbox 360 version of the action-platformer. Tomb Raider: Underworld – Beneath the Ashes will be released onto Xbox LIVE marketplace on February 10th.
Eidos has announced that it has received a preliminary acquisition bid for the company, which holds the rights to the iconic Tomb Raider series. The UK publisher has stated that talks are at “a very early stage” and hasn’t yet revealed the name of its suitor.