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The Case of Lara C.: A Rise of the Tomb Raider Review
The only way to understand the latest Tomb Raider game is as a failed psychotherapy.
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Lara Croft Go reminds us that Lara sometimes raids tombs
It just doesn’t want us to actually explore them
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New Rise of the Tomb Raider footage stars Lara Croft’s daddy issues
Finally, some tomb raiding for the Tomb Raider! The latest footage of Rise of the Tomb Raider direct from its presentation at Gamescom gave fans what they’ve been yearning for since the 2013 reboot: Lara Croft scaling crumbling walls in exotic, undiscovered locales like the good ol’ days when breast
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Lara Croft still doesn’t know how to put a damn top on
The new Rise of the Tomb Raider footage from Gamescom has gotten a lot of attention for depicting Lara doing some pretty gruesome stuff. She uses a kitchen knife to tenderize a dude’s neck, bludgeons another bro with a bottle, then somehow accurately fires two arrows at once into as many oblivious h
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An eating disorder support group gives women in games more "realistic" body shapes
It’s no secret that media’s treatment of female bodies is all around terrible. But for videogames and other animated media, the idealizing of women’s bodies presents some uniquely awkward issues (have you seen the breast physics?) For example: according to the 2013 Game Developer Magazine survey, on
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Killing Lara Croft
Our 20-year obsession with the Tomb Raider’s demise
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Shrugging Off Mental Illness in Rise of the Tomb Raider
Lara Croft should be allowed to have moments of weakness.
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Day two of E3 has come and gone, and Nathan Drake still hasn’t moved
Hey look, a chihuahua-griffin!
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Tomb Raider and the riot-grrrl feminism of the ’90s
The conflicted birth and legacy of Lara Croft.
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Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition crystallizes the original game’s flaws
Here comes a: new hat.
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You can now relive the original Tomb Raider’s ridiculousness on the iPhone
Square Enix dug up an old fossil.
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Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett on why every kill can’t be the first and why she hoped to make Lara Croft gay
In the second part of our conversation, the Tomb Raider penner walks us through the treacherous jungle of gender politics, reflects on whether we’re ready for “braver” characters, and postulates on Lara Croft’s other selves.