GUNS AND GRAPPLE

On 19th August, Tomb Raider was finally released on N-Gage. The game is available through the N-Gage application showroom and will be available on N-Gage.com early next week.

Supported Devices:  N91 8GB , Nokia 3250 , Nokia 5500 , Nokia 5700 , Nokia 6110 Navigator , Nokia 6120 , Nokia 6121 , Nokia 6290 , Nokia E50 , Nokia E51 , Nokia E60 , Nokia E61 , Nokia E61i , Nokia E62 , Nokia E65 , Nokia E70 , Nokia E90 , Nokia N71 , Nokia N73 , Nokia N75 , Nokia N76, Nokia N77 , Nokia N80 , Nokia N81 , Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82 , Nokia N91 , Nokia N92 , Nokia N93 , Nokia N93i , Nokia N95 8GB , Nokia N95

I have found several website that provide fantastic information on the new game:

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Both of the Tomb Raider Movies has been filmed at Hatfield House as Croft Manor. Curious about the other films the famous house has been filmed in?

Well, a website has made a guide to all the movies it has been filmed in. From “The Avengers” (which starred Keeley Hawes, the current voice of Lara in the games) to “Hot Fuzz” and much more!

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The Website mentions: “The future of the Tomb Raider franchise was then discussed, in which Livingstone stated that there is a new title in development, but that he couldn’t “go into details”. What he did offer though, is the kind sentiment that Eidos have done extensive focus testing with the fanbase. When questioned about the already proven false rumour that Megan Fox may take the role of Lara Croft for the next Tomb Raider motion-picture adaptation, Livingstone simply shook his head and denied knowledge of everything.”

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As mentioned in an earlier piece of news on the 14th, Mastertonic's Tomb Raider: The Greatest Raids that was now delayed is now available from today.

Tomb Raider: The Greatest Raids features the first four Tomb Raider Games created by Core Design in 1996-1999.  Priced at £19.55 (Just £4.88 per game) the boxset is for PC ONLY.

System Requirements:

• Operating System: Windows 95, 98, Me, XP or Vista. DirectX 6.1.
• Processor: 233 MHz or above
• Memory: 16 MB RAM
• Video card: DirectX 6.1 compatible 3D video card
• Sound card: DirectX 6.1 compatible sound card
• Other: 200 MB hard drive space; DVD-ROM drive required

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"Before the movies, the comic books, the animated TV series and the rollercoasters, there were the games that started it all.

Tomb Raider took the world by storm when first launched and Lara Croft became an overnight sensation. Discover why in this collection of Lara’s first four adventures.  From the Great Wall of China to the rooftops of London, from the icy wastes of the Antarctic to the sweltering Indian jungle, the action never lets up for a moment. Join Lara on the journey of a lifetime, if you can keep up with her!"

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There is also a competition to win the boxset aswell as, Thief and Commandos Complete. Click here for the competition. With the question, that is quite easy for us: "What year was the first Tomb Raider released?"

Although it may sound like a level from "Portal" the Eidos Metrics Suite is a clever program that moniters how people play Tomb Raider. The information comes from a Research Paper at IT University of Copenhagen on "Player Modeling using Self-Organization in Tomb Raider: Underworld" by Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa and Georgios N. Yannakakis.

You can read the thread about this and get a copy of the search at Tomb Raider Forums. Click here.

Keeley Hawes, the voice of Lara Croft in the three latest adventures a few months ago signed up to be the face of No.7. Every so often the company reveals a new image of Keeley. You can see these images in magazines and online at the official boots website. I have noticed that the magazine with the most advertisements is the Heat magazine

No.7 is a anti ageing serum that is produced by Boots, a popular pharmacist.

New Keeley Hawes section released soon, I just have to perfect the biography. There will be more photos of Keeley courtesy of keeley-hawes.com.  Keep visiting!

Peyton List is the latest rumour that she will star in the next Tomb Raider Movie. The 23 year old actoress is has only been involved in small projects on TV. Click here for her IMDB.

Since Dan Lin revealed that the next movie will be the origin story, Angelina Jolie is forced to step down from the role as Lara. However Angelina is not happy with the switich as she was dedicated to the role and really wanted to return for another movie. There is now several rumours about the new Lara. Megan Fox is the most likely however she has admittted that she does not want to be the "New Angelina"

Over the past few days there have been problems at Eidos about leaked information for their new Tomb Raider game. Not only has there been photos released but storyline rumours leading to behind the scenes drama at both Eidos and fourplayercoop.com

The flashpoint started with a consumer survey for the next Tomb Raider game.  Using a digital camera the images (concept art and model design) used in the survey was sent from a friend to the admin at  fourplayercoop.com who had stated in their latest podcast that they didn’t know that the images wasn’t released yet and didn’t know that they were breaking any rules. 

“Someone else has got to have this story, you don’t beat joystick and kotaku to these sorts of stories”

Fish (admin at the site) then wrote a quick statement about the images, posted an alert on twitter and went to bed. The following day it soon became aware to the website owners that they had released material that wasn’t officially released. Other sites soon became aware and posted links and the images on their site.

“Yesterday we had 20 hits to our website. I checked. Before we went to start recording this an hour ago (podcast); we had 22,000!”

Eidos also became aware over the latest news. Since they had not officially released the information and had no part in the distribution they ordered the site to take down the photos.

Although news articles implied that fourplayercoop.com had a mole at Eidos, this is not true. The fact was found at this podcast.