Formally confirmed to be in growth a few years in the past, the following mainline Tomb Raider title isn’t one thing that we’ve heard or seen an excessive amount of (or something) of in an official capability thus far, however developer Crystal Dynamics is constant to make regular progress on the action-adventure title behind-the-scenes, whilst guardian firm Embracer Group appears to maneuver from one disaster to a different, from mass layoffs to main restructuring.
A minimum of that’s what Christoph Hartmann, vie president of Amazon Video games, says. Amazon Video games was confirmed as the following Tomb Raider’s writer in December of 2022, and as per Hartmann, regardless of the chaos surrounding Embracer, Crystal Dynamics continues to make good progress on the event of Tomb Raider.
“Folks clearly take a look at what the guardian firm is doing, but it surely by no means impacted on sources, by no means led to any adjustments on administration for them, so that they’re effective,” Hartmann mentioned in an interview with IGN. “I imply, doing a brand new Tomb Raider, the bar is so excessive. The longer you go, the expectation goes increased, so it’s an enormous, big process, however issues are progressing. I imply, there’s some actually nice concepts right here.
“Clearly, we’re not going to share any with you even when we’d like to, however issues are going nicely, issues are shifting ahead. And from what I might inform, Crystal was fairly sheltered, as a result of additionally if you look earlier than… they went by a few possession adjustments anyway earlier than, it’s not model new for them.”
Earlier this yr, leaks claimed that the following Tomb Raider sport was going to be set in India, and that it will characteristic an open world construction, whereas earlier experiences have additionally claimed that the sport will star a extra skilled model of protagonist Lara Croft.
It stays to be seen when precisely the following Tomb Raider shall be formally revealed, however earlier this yr, Hartmann mentioned these particulars weren’t “too far-off”. Learn extra on that by right here.
