#January2017

Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics, and Eidos Announce ‘The Avengers Project’ With Marvel. Teaser Here!

Folks! Folks. Marvel is getting fucking deep into the video game business. Today, the company announced a joint venture with Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics, and Eidos called The Avengers Project.

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‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’ Gamescom 2015 Gameplay Trailer: Croft Embraces Guerrilla Combat

‘TOMB RAIDER’ TRAILER: Steal ‘UNCHARTED’, Steal ‘HUNGER GAMES’, Cross Fingers.

Tomb Raider  is getting rebooted, and its makers are culling from burning pots of cultural gravitas. There ain’t much better a way of making Ms. Croft relevant again than by taking everything Uncharted  and smashing it as hard as you can into Hunger Games. Over and over and over again, until you have some misshaped though potentially entertaining monster.

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Game Informer Reveals The New Lara Croft; Tomb Raider Reboot Inc.

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Behold the new look of Lara Croft. Crystal Dynamics is rebooting the franchise, and are totally swearing to tell the origin story of Ms. Croft. Isn’t this like her third reboot at this point? I can’t keep track. The head of Crystal Dynamics, Darrell Gallagher, trots out some of the more derivative statements you’ll find across video games and comic books to hype up this new origin!

Forget everything you knew about TOMB RAIDER. This is an origins story that creates Lara Croft and takes her on a character defining journey like no other.

Yeah, okay. I’ve heard that line a million times out of DC and Marvel alone. This is across mediums, but it’s the same hyperbole. Maybe it isn’t a reboot, but they’re appear to be starting afresh.

On the look? I like it. I’m sure she’ll still be super sexualized to an extent. But it’s nice to see her with a face that’s a bit harder (but pretty! of course! Heroines have to be pretty.) and suffering some battle damage.

Thoughts?

Via.