Tomb Raider Will Be at The Game Awards This Week

Tomb Raider volition beryllium astatine The Game Awards this week. Which Tomb Raider, you ask? The crippled oregon the show? We don't know! Maybe both!

This comes from tweets some by The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley and the authoritative Tomb Raider account. As Keighley puts it, "As conscionable revealed successful our The Game Awards Vote successful Fortnite representation portal, tune successful Thursday nighttime for a look astatine the aboriginal of 1 of gaming's astir iconic franchises, Tomb Raider. This is 1 you won't privation to miss."

So, what could beryllium shown? There are a fewer possibilities. The archetypal and astir apt is that we're astir to spot the Tomb Raider crippled that's been successful improvement astatine Crystal Dynamics for respective years now. First announced successful 2022, we person yet to really spot this crippled successful action, though we did get a look astatine the Lara Croft redesign past year.

One could forgive Crystal Dynamics for being truthful quiescent the past 3 years, though, arsenic the workplace has been done it. Shortly earlier the announcement, Embracer Group purchased the workplace and the franchise from Square Enix. Then, it sold some disconnected to Middle-earth Enterprises successful 2024. Amazon is inactive publishing Tomb Raider, but Amazon has had its ain issues with the struggles of its New World MMO, its Lord of the Rings MMO, and wide layoffs. Amazon said implicit a twelvemonth agone that the crippled would uncover was "not excessively acold away," starring 1 to wonderment what precisely was meant by that. Meanwhile, Crystal Dynamics has undergone 3 waves of layoffs this year, including 30 individuals past month, an chartless fig of workers successful August pursuing the cancellation of Perfect Dark by Xbox, and 17 radical earlier successful the year, arsenic good arsenic 10 others backmost successful 2023.

That's the crippled broadside of things. On the TV side, we cognize there's a live-action Tomb Raider bid successful the works astatine Amazon successful concern with Story Kitchen, starring Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner arsenic Lara Croft. The amusement will, per Story Kitchen, "reinvent the franchise connected a monolithic scale" and volition interconnect “live-action tv bid and video games into a unified storytelling universe.”

But again, it's been successful the works for a portion with nary updates. We archetypal heard of its improvement successful January of 2023, and it was officially confirmed aboriginal that year. There were reports successful April of this twelvemonth that the TV amusement was "dead" successful portion owed to Tuner's engaged acting docket and successful portion owed to Jennifer Salke, who greenlit the amusement astatine Amazon, being "booted" from her job. There were besides allegations that a publication hadn't been provided yet. But then, successful September, Amazon re-confirmed the Tomb Raider bid was happening and would commencement shooting successful 2026, with Turner inactive to star.

That's...a batch going on! With each that background, it seems astir apt we're going to spot the game, arsenic the bid hasn't begun shooting yet. However, it's imaginable we're owed for a look astatine Turner arsenic Lara Croft. Given the vagueness of Keighley and Crystal's tweets...why not both? In the meantime, astatine slightest we person the anime...I guess. We didn't overmuch attraction for the archetypal season.

The Game Awards volition instrumentality spot connected Thursday, December 11, astatine 5pm PT/8pm ET. Here's our usher connected what other to expect astatine the show.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].