Today Square Enix announced a partnership with Coca-Cola for the launch of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. On September 12th the feature-length film “Making of a Tomb Raider” will be aired in select theaters across the United States, and fans can grab a ticket here. Among other things, the film will feature “never-seen-before” gameplay footage. You can check out
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Today the Japanese arm of Square Enix presented a nice chunk of gameplay of the upcoming action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Since the gameplay was streamed from Japan, we actually get to see the Japanese version in action. The livestream was actually presented by Square Enix President and CEO Yosuke Matsuda, who appears to
Today Eidos Montréal and Square Enix released a brand new trailer of their upcoming action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Following yesterday’s extensive gameplay video showing Lara Croft in stealth-action, today we see even more, as the trailer focuses entirely on the brutal takedowns she can execute from the shadows. And boy, the lady packs
Today Eidos Montréal and Square Enix released a brand new gameplay video of its upcoming action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The video is presented by Game Director Daniel Chayer-Bisson, and showcases how Lara Croft can “become one with the jungle” to fight back against the odds brought to bear by Trinity. She is
Shadow of the Tomb Raider doesn’t have “Tomb” in the title for nothing, as one of the most relevant elements of the series is the exploration of dark, forgotten tombs that put to the test our skills, our determination, and our puzzle platforming abilities. The new game is no exception, and today Square Enix released
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have today released a brief new trailer for the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider. In this video that is a little over thirty seconds long, we get a better look at the world of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Many of the locales that we’ll assumedly visit such as rainforests, Mayan
Today Square Enix and Eidos Montréal released a brief gameplay trailer of their upcoming action-adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. This time around, we get only thirty seconds of footage, but it’s pretty impressive, focused on traversal, climbing, and jumping. As usual, Lara likes to be basically suicidal in the way she hurls herself around
Ahead of its launch in September, Eidos Montreal today announced that Shadow of the Tomb Raider has officially gone gold. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, going gold essentially means that Shadow of the Tomb Raider is now content complete and can begin being prepared for shipping. In the meantime, Eidos Montreal will likely still be hard
It’s been a month since the summer chain of events and conventions has started, and we’re not even halfway through. The next big one is San Diego Comic-Con, and Square Enix will be there with quite a few of its games. Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be heavily featured with an “off-site experience” featuring
The Tomb Raider series always had excellent soundtracks and the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider appears not to be an exception. Today Square Enix and Eidos Montreal released a series of videos featuring three different tracks from the game and a “making of” the music created for the announcement cinematic trailer. The “making of”
When Rise of the Tomb Raider originally released on Xbox One back in 2015, it was one of my favorite games of the year. I loved its semi-open world nature that prompted exploration, the progression of improving your weapons and gear, and the satisfying combat that often felt dirty and in-your-face. Coming into E3, it was easy
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal released a brand new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video starring UI Lead David Boileau. Boileau talks about the fact that the team wanted to focus on the “maturity” of the UI’s presentation, reducing noise and congestion to create a cinematic experience and avoid sucking the player out of the immersion of
Eidos Montreal and Square Enix released a brand new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video starring Gameplay Director Daniel Drapeau. Drapeau talks about Lara’s ability to swim underwater freely, finding environments like small caverns of massive challenge tombs. She is also able to traverse the canopies of trees, and wall-run. Interestingly, the video also showcases concept artwork
Eidos Montreal and Square Enix released a new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video starring Development Tester Bianca Lavric. Lavric talks about the complexity of the AI, and how the team is testing it to make sure that everything works properly. We also get a hint about a helicopter scene, but no further details on that. Interestingly,
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal released a new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video starring Senior Technical Artist Martin Palko. In the video, Palko talks briefly about the work done on improving the game’s visual effects, including water, oil, fire, and smoke. The most interesting thing is that we don’t just hear about them, but we also
Today Square Enix and Eidos Montreal released a new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video featuring Senior Lighting Artist Audrey Flammand Lapointe. In the video, Lapointe explains that in the game colors, contrasts, and location of the lights have been purposely set to help the player feel Lara’s emotion. For instance, they help indicate whether a scene
Today Square Enix and Eidos Montreal released a brand new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video featuring Lead Writer Jill Murray. In the video, Murray explains that as Lara becomes the Tomb Raider she’s meant to be, she will have to decide whether she is a heroine or a threat. This will happen with an “emotional,
Today Square Enix and Eidos Montreal released a new Shadow of the Tomb Raider video featuring Performance Lead Emilie Guilloux. In the video, Guilloux talks about the presence of returning character Jonah Maiava, and how Lara and he will experience the game’s events together, adding a “more grounded and believable aspect to Lara” herself. Guilloux’s team also worked
Back when Shadow of the Tomb Raider was revealed in March, we learned that this game would focus on “Lara Croft’s defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider.” Today, we learned more about what that statement actually means in a new video covering the evolution of Lara Croft in the rebooted Tomb Raider series. At the
Following the announcement of Square Enix’s fiscal year 2018 financial results this morning, the publisher provided the presentation slides for their briefing, and they included some interesting information on the plans for the upcoming fiscal year, which end on March 31st, 2019. First of all, we learn that in the that the publisher intends to expand
After being revealed to the world earlier this year, we began receiving some of the first details on the upcoming action-adventure title Shadow of the Tomb Raider last week thanks to the game’s reveal event. Recently, we received even more new details on Shadow of the Tomb Raider thanks to the folks over at Electric Playground. In a recent
Today, Square Enix announced that it would be teaming up with PC part manufacturer NVIDIA to develop the PC version of Crystal Dynamics’ highly anticipated title, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. According to the publisher, NVIDIA will be providing the company its gaming and PC development expertise to help deliver the most advanced gaming features for
Today during a panel at Tribeca Film Festival in New York, developers of Shadow of the Tomb Raider provided some information about the newly-revealed Shadow of the Tomb Raider. In the game, Lara really fights not to become the enemy that she hates. She will make a lot of mistakes, and in this situation, the
Square Enix brought players into a new, gritty take on Lara Croft in 2013, and now her origin story is coming to its conclusion with the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider, while Square is planning to go all out with special editions and new content for the game this fall. As part of the game’s
Today Square Enix is supposed to reveal Shadow of the Tomb Raider, bringing under the spotlight the new adventure of Lara Croft. Well, looks like we’re getting to see the trailer a bit earlier, thanks to a leak that appears to come directly from Microsoft. You can watch it here (unfortunately there is no embed
Tomorrow, Square Enix is slated to reveal the first extended details for the upcoming Lara Croft adventure Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Ahead of that event though, the Amazon page for Shadow of the Tomb Raider recently went live and with it came a slew of new images from the game. In total, there are ten pics from Shadow of
We reported a few weeks back that developer Realtech VR would soon be remastering the original three Tomb Raider games and would be bringing them to Steam at a later date. Well, looks like that plan was short-lived. Realtech VR took back to Twitter and announced in a tweet that is now deleted that those projects were
We have known for some time that a new Tomb Raider game has been on the horizon as its development was confirmed at the end of 2017. Today, it seems we’ve learned our first details of Lara Croft’s next journey thanks to the game’s website. This morning, the official Tomb Raider website was updated to prepare for some sort