Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’
‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to Peru, we threw in a T rex!’
October 2026
Lara Croft is 30! We look at the video game icon’s biggest blunders
We all know the highlights of the tomb raider’s storied career – but what about the lowlights? We dig deep to unearth the archaeologist’s less glorious moments
September 2026
Raiding the past: Lara Croft relives her first adventure in Legacy of Atlantis
We have a first play of the forthcoming Tomb Raider remake and speak with its developers. Can they improve on the gameplay without losing what made the 1996 original such a classic?
June 2026
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From God of War to Until Dawn – seven reveals from last night’s PlayStation event
The PS5 era has been in some ways disappointing for Sony – on Tuesday, the company revealed a slate of games they hope will change that
December 2025
‘Charismatic, self-assured, formidable’: Lara Croft returns with two new Tomb Raider games
An all-new Croft adventure, Tomb Raider Catalyst, will be released in 2027 – and a remake of the action heroine’s first adventure arrives next year
May 2025
Unreal estate: the 12 greatest homes in video game history
Murderous mansions with carnivorous toilets or a fantasy lighthouse on misty shores, every gamer has a favourite property – here are some of ours
February 2025
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered review – the good, the bad and the gloomy of Lara Croft releases
The reissues campaign continues with three more delves into early Lara lore, which shoot, jump and run the gamut of nostalgic gameplay
November 2024
Sophie Turner to lead Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider series
Game of Thrones actor reportedly in talks to play Lara Croft in Fleabag creator’s new take on the gaming franchise
October 2024
Goodbye cartoon breasts, hello sweat stains: the feminist reinvention of Tomb Raider
Finally, Lara Croft no longer looks like a strong wind would knock her over. Netflix’s new animated series boldly reimagines the adventurer – with no thought to the male gaze
February 2024
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered review – a great remaster of Lara Croft’s lost arc
The archaeologist’s earliest adventures show their age, but this revival preserves enough of the games’ treasured elements to keep purists happy
February 2023
Help, I’m obsessed with pressure-washing Lara Croft’s house
Ellie Gibson
I started playing a video game about cleaning for a laugh – now it’s all gotten out of hand and I’m going for the Guinness World Record
January 2023
Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly writing Tomb Raider TV series
The Fleabag star and creator is rumoured to be taking on a new version of the popular video game as part of her deal with Amazon
October 2022
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Pushing Buttons: the ghostly echo of games past sustains me
Climbing my first wall in Tomb Raider, playing Sonic the Hedgehog with my dad … snatches of games I’ve played over the years deliver a world unclouded by nagging doubts
May 2022
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Pushing Buttons: How Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft was let down by generic games
In this week’s newsletter: The franchise has just been sold off on the cheap, but could the original video game heroine be saved by games that see her as more than just eye candy?
November 2021
Celebrating 25 years of Lara Croft with … a cookbook?
This gleefully incongruous piece of tie-in merch pays tribute to a quarter-century of Tomb Raider with recipes. So can we expect a spaghetti carbo-Lara?
January 2020
From Worms to Tomb Raider: classic UK video games celebrated in new stamps
Royal Mail’s set of 12 postage stamps traces Britain’s role at the forefront of the games industry through the 1980s and 90s
March 2018
Now you've seen it
Tomb Raider: new Lara, Daddy Croft, and Indiana Jones ripoffs - discuss with spoilers
From kickass heroine to soppy student snowflake: the many lives of Lara Croft
October 2017
The Snowman, Yogi Bear and Hollywood's unintentionally funny movie posters
The campaign for serial killer thriller The Snowman has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, and it’s not the first time a designer has caused accidental lols
September 2017
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Tomb Raider: is the Alicia Vikander reboot just Gap Yah: The Movie?
A privileged young white woman gallivants around the developing world in search of adventure … is it Lara Croft or White Saviour Barbie?
