{"id":124554,"date":"2022-04-06T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124554"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:23:26","slug":"new-tomb-raider-game-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/124554-new-tomb-raider-game-announced-2","title":{"rendered":"New Tomb Raider game announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developer Crystal Dynamics in partnership with Square Enix has announced that a new Tomb Raider game is in development.<\/p>\n<p>This news was shared during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T28ZzPADgt4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Unreal 2022<\/a>, a special presentation put on by Epic Games to showcase and highlight Unreal Engine 5.<\/p>\n<p>After this presentation, confirmation of the announcement was posted to Tomb Raider\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tombraider\/status\/1511368712279904258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1511368712279904258%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomicbook.com%2Fgaming%2Fnews%2Fxbox-game-pass-gamepass-games-ultimate-april-2022%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crystal Dynamics is incredibly excited about the future of Unreal and how it will help us take our storytelling to the next level,&#8221; said Crystal Dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re proud to announce that our next #tombraider game is being built on Unreal Engine 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, there&#8217;s no word on which platforms the game will be available on, when it will be released, or even the game&#8217;s name. Crystal Dynamics has also not provided a timeline for the reveal of any of this information.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, for fans of the Lara Croft series, further information about the new game is unlikely to come any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Dynamics is actively working on <em>Marvel\u2019s Avengers<\/em> post-launch support and <em>Perfect Dark<\/em>, which means the new Tomb Raider game is likely to take a backseat.<\/p>\n<p>All we know for now is that the game will be powered by Unreal Engine 5, the latest iteration of Epic Games&#8217; engine which has promised to provide some truly next-gen visuals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Crystal Dynamics is incredibly excited about the future of Unreal and how it will help us take our storytelling to the next level. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re proud to announce that our next <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tombraider?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tombraider<\/a> game is being built on Unreal Engine 5! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UFMiWzJAZc\">pic.twitter.com\/UFMiWzJAZc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tomb Raider (@tombraider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tombraider\/status\/1511368712279904258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Epic Games has launched Unreal Engine 5\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124546-epic-games-has-launched-unreal-engine-5\" rel=\"bookmark\">Epic Games has launched Unreal Engine 5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer Crystal Dynamics in partnership with Square Enix has announced that a new Tomb Raider game is in development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":124558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1415,1966,201],"class_list":["post-124554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-epic-games","tag-games","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}