The concept of playing a game early is certainly enticing, but the way this system of “early access” has been changing over the years is starting to concern me. The practice is nothing new. Steam's Early Access program dates bac...

Shadow of the Tomb Raider doesn't necessarily have any grand ambitions for its post-release content. Alongside the game's reveal back in April, Square Enix immediately announced that Shadow of the Tomb Raider would get seven small...

For those of you who like your gaming in both digital and analogue form, then Square Enix might have something in the works for you. A new board game is currently in the works based on the tomb raidin' crusades of the irrepressible Lara Cro...

Lara Croft has always lived in her father's shadow. This famed archaeologist devoted the latter years of his life searching for The Divine Source, a Fountain of Youth-type mythological key to immortality. Like Ponce de León, he never...

Stop the internet: Square Enix officially remade the most recent Shadow of the Tomb Raider ad using animals. Cats and dogs unite in this amazing adventure called "Shadow of the Cute Raider," which as luck would have it, is for charity...

So far in Square Enix' run of trailers for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, we've seen Lara killing people from the undergrowth and killing people with home-made weapons. Now, it's time for a change of pace, as we look at the new game's crafting ...

When our favourite Tomb Raider Lara Croft isn't popping out of the undergrowth to stab a few folks in the head, her second favourite tactic is to take them from afar, either with a beautifully-placed and silent strike from her homemade bow,...

Before rebooting the entire series with 2013's Tomb Raider, developer Crystal Dynamics decided to take the series in a more modern direction with 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend. Basically setting the groundwork for Naughty Dog's popular Unchart...

Square Enix continue their series of short trailers entirely designed to show you what a raging psychopath young Lara Croft has become. This latest video from the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider focuses on her brutal stealth takedowns.Wh...

We're starting to crawl out of the era where everything just hits "PC, PS4, and Xbox One." Thanks to studios like Panic Button the process of porting big-name games to Switch has been expedited, and some publishers are just doing the work t...

One of the many facets of art direction I’ve come to greatly appreciate in this generation of gaming is that of the vista. I simply love a good vista, the moments where a break in the action gives players the opportunity to gawk at th...

Underwater levels. Has there ever-been a more anxiety-inducing element of video games? From Metal Gear Solid 2, to the terrifying tones of Sonic the Hedgehog's Labyrinth Zone, the oxygen-free areas seem to instill fear and panic in many a h...

In the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Square Enix is providing players with the ability to customize the difficulty of the game. When starting a new playthrough, you'll be given a couple of options for three aspects of Lara's adventure...

Square Enix' Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a little over a month away now, with the publisher continuing to put out trailers to build the excitement for the third coming of rampant killing machine Lara Croft.A short new preview has been rele...

Eidos Montreal and Square Enix have uploaded a video today featuring ten minutes of footage compiled from the upcoming, rock climbing, throat-stabbing adventure game Shadow of the Tomb Raider.Complete with commentary by Narrative Director J...

Square Enix is constantly spouting the phrase "Lara's defining moment" when talking about Shadow of the Tomb Raider, like she hasn't had a dozen of them already in her reboot incarnation. And with their E3 Showcase/Direct today, they s...

Square Enix is set to have a big E3. How do we know that? Because the publisher has put together a pre-recorded showcase which is something that it only does sparingly. It's not an every year thing; it's a when it's warranted thing. Both S...

Even if I weren't already committed to seeing the trilogy through to the end after clearing the first two games, I'd be down for Shadow of the Tomb Raider solely for its Mayan-apocalypse premise. Also, the bit where Lara uses mud as camouf...

To the average video game consumer, there's a very real disconnect between the biggest blockbusters and the resources it takes to make them. We rarely hear hard figures about operating budgets. We know they're expensive because they look ex...

If you were hoping that Lara Croft would bring back the very brief dual pistols she wielded at the end of the 2013 reboot game, it's still not going to happen when Shadow of the Tomb Raider rolls around. While it could have been a poss...

In case you haven't heard, there's a World Video Game Hall of Fame in Rochester, New York as part of The National Museum of Play. Periodically the Hall of Fame program, which started in mid 2015, will induct games based on fo...

It seems as if there was some confusion as to whether or not Shadow of the Tomb Raider would bring the Xbox One X into PC quality territory with 4K60FPS visuals -- but it just wasn't meant to be. After Eidos Montreal studio head David Anfos...

Square Enix has opened up about its DLC plans for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. After launch on September 14, the game will get seven content drops -- one a month -- from October through April. "The Season Pass delivers seven new adventures c...

Shadow of the Tomb Raider was officially revealed minutes ago, and it looks great. We played it for the better part of an hour, and it hits all the notes that we've come to expect from a new Tomb Raider game. For our detailed thou...

Square Enix's 2013 Tomb Raider showed us a Lara Croft we had never seen before. For decades, the only Lara we knew was an iconic action star -- confidently dual-wielding pistols while running, jumping, and gunning her way through any situat...