{"id":126173,"date":"2022-12-16T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126173"},"modified":"2022-12-16T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:15:10","slug":"amazon-to-release-next-tomb-raider-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/126173-amazon-to-release-next-tomb-raider-game","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to release next Tomb Raider game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has struck an agreement with video game developer Crystal Dynamics to release the next title in the popular <em>Tomb Raider\u00a0<\/em>franchise, giving a boost to the e-commerce giant\u2019s\u00a0struggling gaming ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The next installment in the single-player adventure chronicling the British archaeologist Lara Croft is yet to be named or have a release date, according to a statement from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The title is in early development with California-based Crystal Dynamics, which will \u201ctake the storytelling to the next level in the biggest, most expansive\u00a0<em>Tomb Raider<\/em>\u00a0game to date,\u201d Amazon said.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement expands the Seattle-based company\u2019s game publishing efforts under Amazon Game Studios, which set out to develop titles about eight years ago but has had only limited success so far.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon announced\u00a0three games\u00a0in 2016:\u00a0<em>New World<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Breakaway<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Crucible<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Breakaway\u00a0<\/em>was canceled.\u00a0<em>Crucible<\/em>\u00a0was released, then un-released, then also canceled. Other projects, including ones code-named Nova and Intensity, were shelved before they were even revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year Amazon finally had a modest hit with\u00a0<em>New World<\/em>, a multiplayer adventure game. And earlier this year it released\u00a0<em>Lost Ark<\/em>. The new<em>Tomb Raider\u00a0<\/em>title will be Amazon Games\u2019 first single-player narrative game.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Tomb Raider<\/em>\u00a0franchise includes more than 20 titles and has sold more than 95 million copies since its 1996 debut, according to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Some recent installments of the series, including\u00a0<em>Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/em>, were published by Japan\u2019s Square Enix Holdings Co. Square Enix owned the franchise as well as Crystal Dynamics until August of this year, when it sold both to the Swedish video game conglomerate Embracer Group AB.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a title=\"Permalink to Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard up in the air\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/126171-microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal-up-in-the-air\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard up in the air<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has struck an agreement with video game developer Crystal Dynamics to release the next title in the popular Tomb Raider\u00a0franchise, giving a boost to the e-commerce giant\u2019s\u00a0struggling gaming ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":124857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2794,201],"class_list":["post-126173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126173","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\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126174,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126173\/revisions\/126174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}