And here's another one. A week ago, we exclusively revealed that Hitman 5 was on the way in 2011. Now, we can once again exclusively reveal that a new Tomb Raider is in development, and is due to come out next year. But that's not all we found.
Here is the LinkedIn profile that, quite literally, gives the game away; Tomb Raider: Ascension, coming 2011. The name of the user has been blurred for privacy reasons.
Does that sound familiar? Maybe - Tomb Raider Ascension was a fan film that come out in 2007. Here's the pretty poor teaser for it. The story is all about Lara Croft finding out about her past, and where it all started. Hang on...
July 2009. Leaked game concept art and info shows a 'young and inexperienced Lara' surviving on a Japanese island after a shipwreck. The codename for the project was Downfall; the opposite of 'ascension'. Wait, shipwreck? Yes, that very same shipwreck on the cover of the December Game Informer.
From our hunting skills, it seems that the unannounced project Crystal Dynamics have been working on for some time is the game Tomb Raider: Ascension (2011), loosely linked to an old fan film of the same name. The Game Informer cover is the reveal of the next Lara Croft outing, as you find yourself shipwrecked on an island as a young Croft and have to survive. Excited yet?
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