A Tomb Raider remake joins the rumours for this year’s The Game Awards, as fans continue to speculate over a bizarre statue tease.
Aside from a bunch of remasters and mobile spin-offs, it’s been seven years since the last mainline Tomb Raider title.
Developed by Eidos-Montréal (regular developer Crystal Dynamics was away making Marvel’s Avengers), 2018’s Shadow Of The Tomb Raider closed out the modern reboot trilogy, which originally began in 2013. We know a new Tomb Raider, in partnership with Amazon, has been in development at Crystal Dynamics for over three years, but nothing of it has ever been shown.
The last time we heard about the project was in relation to layoffs at the company earlier this year, but if a new rumour is to be believed, there might be a second Tomb Raider game in the works.
According to ‘anonymous’ sources at fan account Society Of Raiders, a remake of 1996’s Tomb Raider is set to be announced at The Game Awards 2025, which takes place in the small hours of Friday, December 12 in the UK.
Society Of Raiders is largely untested when it comes to leaks, so we’d take this rumour with a heavy pinch of salt. However, it doesn’t feel entirely unlikely, especially if it’s being worked on in tandem with the new game from Crystal Dynamics.
This wouldn’t be the first time the original Tomb Raider has been remade either. Aside from the recent remaster, Crystal Dynamics developed the 2007 remake Tomb Raider: Anniversary for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360. Considering it’s been nearly 20 years since then, however, another modern revamp might help put the series back on the map.
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A Tomb Raider announcement might even be the secret game The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has been teasing with a mysterious statue image. Various developers and insiders have already ruled out Diablo 4 expansions, God Of War, The Elder Scrolls 6, and most recently, Lords Of The Fallen 2, but Tomb Raider feels like a possibility.
Some have suggested the teaser may be a new FromSoftware title but the art design doesn’t seem right for that, but could maybe work for Tomb Raider. ‘Regal.inspiring.thickness,’ Keighley wrote alongside the image. The Game Awards official X account, meanwhile, added: ‘The [blank] are silent. [blank] bleeds. New [blank] stir.’
Even if this image doesn’t relate to Tomb Raider, there are a lot of coincidences around the timing of The Game Awards, where some kind of Lara Croft related announcement feels like a real possibility.
The second and final season of Netflix animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend Of Lara Croft is set to debut on the same day as the show, while a live action series starring Sophie Turner is set to start filming in January 2026 for Amazon.
Could Sophie Turner be one of the now traditional awkwardly-placed celebrities who pops up for a brief autocue read? At a show which has previously hosted Harrison Ford, Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey, we wouldn’t rule it out.
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