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One of the most popular and alluring video game characters is the lovely Lara Croft, the heroine of Eidos' Tomb Raider franchise. From her pixelated debut back in the 1990s to her high-definition glory in the latest Tomb Raider Underworld, Lara has always managed to guarantee some reasonable sales for the Europe... |
13 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The gaming industry has a lot of iconic characters that, whether they are known for their personality, attitude or deepness, are now famous around the world. Of course, Hollywood wasn't oblivious to such a thing and has turned a lot of them into movie stars, courtesy of actors. Such is the case with the lovely ... |
20 May 2009
13:01 GMT |
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We've been hearing quite a lot of things about Eidos lately, as its acquisition by Japanese company Square Enix has been the subject of many reports by the gaming press. We've seen how the company will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the famous corporation but nothing concrete has been s... |
18 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Eidos Interactive is one of the most popular European game publishers, as it has released over the years great titles such as Hitman or Deus Ex. But none of its franchises shine as brightly as Tomb Raider, starring the ever so lovely Lara Croft.Because her most recent appearance on the consoles and PC, Tomb Raider: U... |
3 April 2009
02:21 GMT |
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It's now pretty much official. Eidos has announced that its shareholders, who have seen their company felled by financial problems, have approved the take over by Japanese publisher Square Enix. A little over 85% of those still holding on to Eidos shares have voted yes. They will get a little less than half a do... |
31 March 2009
03:28 GMT |
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The latest iteration in the Tomb Raider series, Underworld, is gearing up to receive the second DLC episode of content made exclusively for the Xbox 360 version, as Eidos has just announced a few details on the upcoming Lara's Shadow content pack. Coming hot on the heels of the Beneath the Ashes DLC, Lara'... |
4 March 2009
02:30 GMT |
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Square Enix is getting ever closer to its stated aim of acquiring the publisher Eidos. It seems that the offer of shares of the videogame company is going well and that Square Enix is set to achieve its goal of expanding into the Western games market.Insight Investment Management and Pioneer Investment Management are... |
26 February 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Eidos is sending word that the first piece of downloadable content for the latest Tomb Raider game is available on the Xbox 360 for the price of 800 Microsoft Points and offers players a chance to get into the adventuring boots of Lara Croft as she explores the sprawling basement of the now burnt down Croft Mansion i... |
25 February 2009
04:50 GMT |
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The economy isn't going through the best of times right now, as more and more companies are posting lower profits and even losses and have already employed some pretty drastic layoffs or headcount reductions through their staffs. But a lot of people say that the best deals happen when the prices are low. As suc... |
19 February 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Action adventure games are very popular these days, as more and more developers want to bring something new to the whole genre. But although other companies want to push the envelope, Eidos is sticking with the tried-and-true method to its famous Tomb Raider series. The lovely Lara Croft embarked on her latest advent... |
11 February 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Just the other day, reports came in saying that Warner was considering casting “Transformers” star Megan Fox as Lara Croft in a third “Tomb Raider” movie. While at the time, not much of said sequel was known, it was believed that Fox would be the best replacement for Angelina Jolie. The Hollyw... |
29 January 2009
10:50 GMT |
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In the gaming industry a few franchises have gained a somewhat cult following, one of them being the famous Tomb Raider series, which made Eidos a very profitable company a long time ago. The success was largely due to the fact that the main character was the lovely Lara Croft who wasn't your usual treasure hunt... |
23 January 2009
02:41 GMT |
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The gaming industry has its fair share of iconic characters that have transcended their own games and are now part of our everyday life, seeing them almost all around us. One such character is the lovely Lara Croft, which is the star of Eidos' Tomb Raider franchise, and which even saw movies made based on her. ... |
20 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider franchise is perhaps one of the most long-lasting series of action adventure games out there. Its main character, the lovely Lara Croft, has made gamers across the world eager to see where her relic-finding adventures take her throughout every title. The series has been a very successful one for Eidos... |
5 January 2009
04:00 GMT |
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It seems that Time Warner is the front runner in the race to acquire Britain-based publisher Eidos Interactive. The latest sign is the fact that the American media giant has acquired another 10 million shares in the videogames company, even as rumors about its problems amplify. Time Warner already had a stake in Eido... |
17 December 2008
05:03 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider franchise is perhaps one of the most long lasting adventure series out there. With the first title appearing in 1996, the popularity of the franchise has always been high, with numerous fans eagerly anticipating the next adventures of Lara Croft, one of the most known videogame characters out there.Th... |
29 October 2008
13:31 GMT |
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Tomb Raider: Underworld is shaping up to be a pretty good game, bringing everybody's favorite female heroine, Lara Croft, back in the spotlight of action adventure titles. The game will take Lara all around the world, from Thailand to Mexico and from the Mediterranean Sea to Scandinavia where she will explore th... |
7 October 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Tomb Raider: Underworld will most likely manage to create another Lara Croft starring game that captures the player’s mind just as the original release.One of the most interesting features of the game will be the fact that it will have “Player Tailoring”, which basically means that the gamer will ha... |
9 September 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Most of us will always associate the virtual Lara Croft with Angelina Jolie's looks, while the most hardcore fans will always consider Karima Adebe to be the real Lara Croft. However, things might change a bit in the near future, since Eidos has announced that, once Tomb Raider: Underworlds gets launched, a new ... |
12 August 2008
03:22 GMT |
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Everybody's favorite game heroine, Lara Croft, will once again mark her return to consoles and PC systems all over the world for a new adventure starting November 21st. The game, developed by the same studio behind Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Crystal Dynamics, will be released by Eidos for ... |
16 July 2008
04:09 GMT |
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How long till we see Lara Croft again? The answer to that question has many different variants, depending on what you mean. Lara Croft has become such an iconic gaming character that a trip to the local game store or even to the mall might get you to look at a real sized replica of Lara, sometimes even an actress imp... |
24 June 2008
08:58 GMT |
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When we say Lara Croft, the good old days of fantasies with pixel based characters come right back. She will be remembered for a long time even if we won't remember the actual games. Let's face it, the only thing that comes to mind when we think about Tomb Rider is an obscure patch that made her run naked a... |
16 June 2008
09:08 GMT |
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Lurking in the shadows, a girl with big breasts was wielding a gun in a room and everything was quiet. Everybody in the apartment was probably horrified and the police forces were glad they were accidentally passing by. They were ready to burst into the house, real Rambos or Robocops saving the day and become heroes,... |
28 May 2008
04:00 GMT |
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These girls are sexy, they’re hot and they have an instant drooling effect on any human male, level 15-80, who is watching them. These are the same girls who made you love them the way only a game-geek can love: truly, madly, deeply. However, they have one big flaw: they are game characters. They are not real, they a... |
28 March 2008
22:06 GMT |
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I'm sure most of us would be really glad to see, for real, let's say... Lara Croft. Just imagine how exciting would be for you to see five Lara Crofts, five Yunas, two BloodRaynes and so on. And not just that - basically, we're talking now about a meeting where you will meet everybody that counts or ha... |
3 March 2008
02:52 GMT |
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It's true that everything lands just a tad too late on Macs, and Tomb Raider Anniversary is one of those things. Could it have something to do with the 'snob' thing? Anyway, don't get too excited either cause this HERE is just the demo version of the Crystal Dynamics-developed Tomb Raider title.To... |
18 February 2008
04:16 GMT |
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We still don't have many details regarding what will exactly happen in the latest Tomb Raider title, Underworld, but one thing is for sure: Lara Croft is wet, and hot and sexier than ever! The newly released high-res, next-get, eye-candy screenshots featuring the most beloved female character in a video game can... |
4 February 2008
03:10 GMT |
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At last, Mac owners are getting an insight on the latest Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider Anniversary, straight from Apple. What seems to be a mere revamped Tomb Raider 1.0 is actually much more. Jumping in Lara Croft's military boots, players revisit the same locations found in the first installment. However, 10 y... |
1 February 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Tomb Raider Underworld sounds more and more appealing with the disclosing of new details. This week, Official PlayStation Magazine UK has revealed that Underworld, although it sticks to the series' roots, will smash the boundaries of regular action-adventure gameplay and deliver amazing maneuverability and inter... |
17 January 2008
06:22 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, news broke out that Eidos had secured rights for a new Tomb Raider title, Tomb Raider Underworld. Everyone was right thinking it was another TR game, as tombraiderchronicles.com later confirmed that Tomb Raider 8 was indeed going to be Underworld. Most recently though, PLAY magazine managed to ... |
17 December 2007
05:27 GMT |
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If you're a Lara Croft fan or a player of the Tomb Raider series then you might as well sit down, take a deep breath and read the following lines carefully because Lara is embarking on yet another adventure, full of memories, leaving "footprints in the mud" that "wash away" in the rain. Next-gen Tomb Raider Unde... |
14 December 2007
04:51 GMT |
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Xbox Live finally hosts the downloadable version of Tomb Raider: Anniversary, with a total of 2 episodes. Each has around 1.5 GB in size and costs 1200 points (GBP 10.20 / EUR 13.96). You also need a copy of Tomb Raider: Legend in order to be allowed to download the game.TR: Anniversary is in fact a remake of the ori... |
23 November 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Tomb Raider: Anniversary takes you back to the core of adventure gaming, allowing players to experience the game that defined it all in an entirely new way. Completely rebuilt from the ground-up, Tomb Raider: Anniversary features massive environments with multi-path exploration as well as large-scale physics based pu... |
18 October 2007
09:12 GMT |
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Now, more than ever, it seriously looks like Lara Croft will be moving the stuff from Croft Manor (Croft Mansion) over to another company. Rumor had it that French rival Ubisoft was the one bidding to acquire SCi Entertainment, owners of the well known Tomb Raider franchise. Time Warner also fits somewhere in the gra... |
6 September 2007
06:27 GMT |
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Tomb Raider fans (and especially those who've played it on their PC) know that with the release of every Tomb Raider game, it would be possible for them to install a "nude patch" enabling them to see Lara Croft in all her splendor performing those nifty acrobatics of hers. More recently though, news about a new ... |
24 August 2007
03:02 GMT |
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In a recent interview with Ian Livingstone, an English writer that is currently working on the Tomb Raider project, Spong.com has revealed that the next game in Lara Craft's life is already in development for some time and he also spoke about the new movie spawned by this franchise."The next Tomb Raider is well ... |
17 August 2007
06:49 GMT |
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Lara Croft looked great on PC screens everywhere. Two guns in her hands, tight shorts and revealing top, that looked like the ultimate tough chick, the one you'd follow everywhere and just love to help her run, swing, jump and fight. Turning all this action into a mobile game might sound at first as ruining all ... |
29 June 2007
10:38 GMT |
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Just as soon as Eidos made the long awaited announcement that Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Anniversary was to launch on June 5, gamers and gaming sites worldwide began to ask themselves why they hadn't announced it for the Xbox 360 as well. After all, Legend not only saw a 360 port, but did quite good too. Fortunatel... |
27 June 2007
08:13 GMT |
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Honestly now...! No, don't get me wrong, I like a huge pair of boobies as much as the next fellow but everything has to stop with Lara Croft's size of breasts. Anything bigger than that is just... plain inefficient if you ask me. Capcom is struggling to achieve more fame the easy way. I repeat. The breasts ... |
19 June 2007
09:21 GMT |
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It didn't take them long did it? Heck, of course it didn't... I mean, not that the world isn't all about sex, sex and more sex, but even at Lara Croft's first adventure, when she was made up of cubes, they came up with a patch showing you Lara's intimate parts. Now that technology has evolved... |
19 June 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Just a couple of weeks ago, rumors of Lara Croft grappling herself with the latest installment onto Microsoft's Xbox 360, were posted everywhere. As the ESRB (rating board) had rated Eidos' game not once, not twice, but 5 times, one could only expect a mini series or some downloadable episodic content. As a... |
18 June 2007
06:28 GMT |
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New year, new Lara, this time better and with bigger...expectations, specially since we're celebrating ten years since the first Tomb Raider was released. We've played quite a bunch of titles featuring the sexiest gaming world character, Lara Croft, watched two movies and we still want more. Crystal Dynami... |
12 June 2007
10:15 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider series has had its ups and downs, but mostly downs recently. However, with the release of Tomb Raider Legend, people started to like the posh British adventurer once more and before Anniversary was announced, fans and newcomers alike were already hooked. As the title hasn't been announced for the... |
8 June 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Just in case you've forgotten, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Anniversary will be distributed to gamers worldwide in three ways: 1 - retailers (of course); 2 - |
5 June 2007
05:48 GMT |
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Whoever said that Tomb Raider wasn't popular was sadly mistaking. The game will not only hit all major retailers around the globe, but will be digitally distributed through Steam and GameTap's subscription service distribution also. With a June 5th release schedule, you'd better not be alone at the st... |
30 May 2007
07:51 GMT |
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Oh, how some of us have been waiting for this day to arrive! Tomb Raider Anniversary is finally available as a demo for the PC platform. Thus, Softpedia has made the PC demo available for you to enjoy right now. Click HERE to download.It has been known for quite some time now that Anniversary is an enhanced remake of... |
26 May 2007
11:21 GMT |
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Hearing that GameTap has recently announced the launch of a new GameTap Retrospective series and a new original animated one, "ReVisioned", kind of made me sad. The series is said to pay homage to one of the game industry's top franchises of all times, which is Tomb Raider.Is one of my favorite game series getti... |
18 May 2007
02:53 GMT |
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For all of you drooling Lara Croft fans out there (don't be offended, I'm including myself too in the category), there's word on the street that a third Tomb Raider movie is on the way. And yes, it's Angelina Jolie they want for the starring actress again. Ian Livingstone, one of the original crea... |
15 May 2007
18:06 GMT |
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Boy, are Nintendo fans screaming right about now! Eidos has just announced that Tomb Raider Anniversary is in the works for the Wii gaming system from Nintendo. That's right, Lara Croft will do her acrobatics and double pistol shooting controlled by a Wiimote now. I hope they make it compatible with the classic ... |
15 May 2007
10:00 GMT |
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Don't worry, Turner Broadcasting's GameTap digital distribution is still offering premium paid membership; it's only been recently dubbed "Gold Level." However, "starting May 31 it's also introducing two tiers of free, ad-supported access in an effort to attract a broader audience," as Gamedaily.... |
3 May 2007
04:35 GMT |
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