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Talking Treasure Hunting & ‘Tomb Raider’ in VALUE’s ‘Streaming the Past: Fortune & Glory’ Live-Stream

January 19, 2017August 21, 2022 - by Kelly M - 2 Comments.

Mark your calendars! The Archaeology of Tomb Raider will be taking part in VALUE’s upcoming live-stream event, “Streaming the Past: Fortune & Glory”, which will delve into the topics of treasure hunting and the misrepresentation of archaeology in the Tomb Raider series. The VALUE team and I will be joined by archaeological ethics scholar Meghan …

Lara Croft GO: The Mirror of Spirits (Image credit: Square Enix Montréal)

‘Lara Croft GO’ Released for PlayStation 4 & PS Vita, Gets a New Expansion

December 4, 2016August 21, 2022 - by Kelly M

Tomb Raider’s 20th anniversary celebrations are still in full swing as Square Enix Montréal announced today that their immensely popular, award-winning turn-based puzzle game Lara Croft GO is now available for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita and is fully compatible with the recently released PS4 Pro. The game’s PS4 release …

Screenshot from Rise of the Tomb Raider's Syria level

Society for American Archaeology Publishes Magazine on Video Games & Archaeology

November 16, 2016June 30, 2022 - by Kelly M - 6 Comments.

If you’re interested in the up-and-coming academic discipline of “archaeogaming”, you should check out the Society for American Archaeology’s November 2016 magazine, which can be downloaded as a PDF here or read online. This special issue is devoted to the study of video games and archaeology – or “archaeogaming” – and features …

15 Awesome Tomb Raider Easter Eggs

April 13, 2015February 18, 2023 - by Kelly M - 11 Comments.

One of the greatest pleasures in video gaming is the discovery for “Easter eggs”, those little jokes, secret levels, or hidden messages that game developers insert in their games for the players’ amusement. With a back catalogue spanning almost two decades and across multiple platforms, the Tomb Raider series has …

Lara Croft: Reflections Has Been Axed

June 5, 2014August 7, 2022 - by Kelly M - 3 Comments.

If you were hoping for a worldwide release of Lara Croft: Reflections, your hopes have officially been dashed. After months of speculation about the game’s fate, RenRen Games announced today that the game’s servers will be shut down on 5th August 2014. It’s perhaps not surprising that Lara Croft: Reflections failed to …

The Mouth of Truth as seen in Tomb Raider Chronicles

Arte-Factual: The Mouth of Truth

January 12, 2014February 19, 2023 - by Kelly M - 2 Comments.

Tomb Raider Chronicles was possibly my least favourite game of the Tomb Raider series. It may have had fewer glitches and better controls than its ill-received successor Angel of Darkness but it offered little new in terms of game-play aside from a couple of new moves. Its short, episodic nature …

Square Enix Launches Lara Croft: Reflections

January 11, 2014January 30, 2022 - by Kelly M - 7 Comments.

UPDATE: RenRen Games have announced that the game’s servers will be shut down in August 2014. Based on this, it now seems very unlikely that Lara Croft: Reflections will be released worldwide as previously planned. When Square Enix trademarked the name Lara Croft: Reflections in March 2013, it sparked a …

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Coming to XBox One & Playstation 4

December 8, 2013June 12, 2019 - by Kelly M - 2 Comments.

Rumours of a next-gen release of Tomb Raider 2013 were confirmed at the VGX awards on Saturday 7th December when Crystal Dynamics announced that they will be re-releasing the game for the XBox One and Playstation 4 in late January 2014 (Click to watch the trailer and interview). Tomb Raider: Definitive …