Lara’s biggest downfall, and why her character needed the reboot

Her Teflon coating. In the words of Meagan Marie, cover story writer for Game Informer’s unveiling of Tomb Raider.

[Game Informer #213; Lara art by Omri Koresh]

Get your faces ready for some awesomeness

Yep, your faces. Not your eyes. Or hands. Or mouths. Faces. So says Brent Dady, newly-hired Senior Global Brand Manager of Team Lara, on…something he’s hyping after having worked at Redwood HQ for a week. Need we scratch our heads?

How Square Enix is announcing the next Tomb Raider

Karl Stewart, Team Lara brand manager, on the announcement of Tomb Raider 9 in a July 2010 interview with Eurogamer. Bets are in what “time period” Karl speaks of; duly, we’ve also placed ours. Yours?

A friendly reminder to the world, to the fans, and to Crystal D

Amy Hennig, creative director of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and former Crystal Dynamics employee, on Uncharted and Tomb Raider comparisons in a 2009 interview with G4TV. [Image courtesy of seashell093]

Lara Croft has six Guinness World Records, but this tops them all

The true power of Lara Croft. Excerpt from Geek Revival: Lara Croft.

Expect another epic storyline for the next Tomb Raider

Unwittingly releasing the Keeper of Darkness and teaming up with the Guardian of Light may be good, galactic fun, but surely it isn’t a story you can tell your children without boring them to sleep. Thankfully, as SE Europe community manager Keir Edmonds puts it, Tomb Raider will always have the epic storyline.

Surely Team Lara’s settled on this kind of epic. Yes? Yes?

What’s the best Tomb Raider franchise game since the original?

The review scores tell it, and Crystal Dynamics seems to have taken notice. Cue Alanis Morisette on stereo. Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

The unveiling of Tomb Raider 9 will have proper hype and heart to it

That’s why it’ll have to be done correctly, and at the right time. So says Karl Stewart, brand manager at Crystal Dynamics. Fingers crossed we will be happy what we’ll have to hear then. [Image courtesy of Nicobass]

Crystal Dynamics is a fabric, and Tomb Raider is a spun-wool yarn

Darrell Gallagher, studio head of Team Lara, quite vaguely, on the goings-on at Redwood HQ and why they’re excited about it. As we are, too — as if we knew. [Image courtesy of Nicobass]