The Game Awards Tomb Raider Reveal Leaks Online Just Hours Before the Show

Another day, different leak up of The Game Awards 2025 — which is acceptable to diagnostic a look astatine what's adjacent for Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft.

Ahead of time, screen artwork has leaked for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, what looks to beryllium a afloat remake of the franchise's archetypal game. There are stills from a caller trailer, too, showing Lara Croft successful action.

Croft's plan present appears to beryllium a blend of the character's 'classic' plan with her look from the franchise's much caller reboot trilogy, which showcased her origins. It's presumed that this remake volition afloat presumption the series' archetypal Tomb Raider escapade arsenic taking spot aft that trilogy, arsenic had ever been suggested.

More screenshots of the caller Tomb Raider, it looks similar a TR1 remake pic.twitter.com/BvmiNrMdAt

After the images leaked online past nighttime via video crippled forum ResetEra, fans rapidly noted that Croft's container creation airs perfectly matches that seen successful The Game Awards' authoritative societal media teaser for tonight, wherever she is stood atop a rock, with 1 limb outstretched, iconic dual pistols raised.

The Game Awards' teaser boasted of "a look astatine the aboriginal of 1 of gaming's astir iconic franchises" and tagged successful the authoritative Tomb Raider account, but is simply a remake truly each that's successful the works? It seems unlikely. Replying to the leak via ResetEra, noted gaming tipster Shinobi602 suggested that aggregate projects would beryllium shown tonight, and fans would not beryllium disappointed.

Indeed, Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has been moving present for respective years connected its adjacent section of the franchise. Here's hoping we get immoderate connection of that contiguous too.

First announced successful 2022, we are yet to spot thing of the all-new Tomb Raider, though we did get a look astatine the Lara Croft redesign past year. Meanwhile, it has been a turbulent clip for Crystal Dynamics with 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.

Alongside each this, 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." How volition it each connect? What other is successful the works? We whitethorn good find retired much tonight.

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