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Lara co-creator Toby Gard has left Crystal Dynamics, according to his LinkedIn page.

No reason has been given for the move. The developer’s now doing general consultancy, providing “services covering story, cinematics, animation, character design, game design and balancing.”

Gard was on the original Tomb Raider team. He famously quit to work on Galleon, which kind of failed a bit. He came back into Eidos to work on the Tomb Raider franchise in 2004.

Never more. Via Gama and Develop. Thanks, Blerk.

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UK town Derby is considering naming a new ring road after local heroine Lara Croft.

According to a ThisIsDerby story, suggested names have included Florence Nightingale Way and Lara Croft Way.

Florence Nightingale was a noted humanitarian attributed with saving the lives of many thousands of injured soldiers during the Crimean War. Lara Croft is a overly-mammarized videogame character attributed with making a bunch of money by jumping around and shooting a bit.

“Personally I would be in favour of something that projects something new and modern about the city,” said John Forkin, director of Marketing Derby.

“I quite like the Lara Croft idea.”

Pathetic. Just call it Lara’s Ring and have done with it.

Thanks, TombRaiderChronicles.

Some concept art claiming to be from the origins revamp of the new Tomb Raider in the works have surfaced.

Fourplayercoop has ‘em.

Apparently, if true, the game is open-world and contains a reworked combat system.

Judge for yourself.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Angelina Jolie’s not happy at the prospect of Megan Fox supposedly taking on the role of Lara Croft for the next Tomb Raider movie.

A Sun source said: “Angie was intent on reprising her role. She feels it’s something she helped define and feels robbed that it looks likely to be handed to someone who she considers less capable than her.”

Nothing’s been confirmed about the new film as yet. Or the next game, for that matter.

Read more things in bold through the link.

Toby Gard has been named lead designer of Crystal Dynamics’ unannounced title.

The Tomb Raider creator announced it via his LinkedIn profile.

Sounds like the AAA title mentioned Tuesday might be the revamping of Lara after all.

We’ll find out soon enough, we reckon.

Thanks, D’toid.

Looks like the next Tomb Raider flick will be more of an “origins” experience by focusing on a a younger version of Lara Croft.

Producer Dan Lin confirmed the project during the premiere of his film, Terminator: Salvation.

“We’re rebooting Lara Croft. Really excited – it’s a great origin story that we’re going to tell. A very character-oriented I would say more realistic than the past Lara Croft movies,” he told About.com.

“I would say it’s like Terminator – character-driven action. I think for me the Lara Croft games and movies have gone a little too action-oriented. I wanted to have action, but with character.”

An actress has yet to be cast, but it has been rumored that Megan Fox is up for the role.

Thanks, TombRaiderFanboy.

Speculation that Crystal Dynamics and Buzz Monkey are working on the next Tomb Raider has hit the net thanks to an online resume and a website announcement.

Underworld’s senior environmentalist, Caleb Strauss, has listed an “Unnanounced Project” on his resume, stating his involvement includes “pre-production development, 3D world environment modeling, documentation, contribution to art pipeline and workflow, and mentoring.”

According to the same report, Buzz Monkey, has listed a “Top Secret Game” on its official website, calling it the “next smash success.”

The firm developed the PS2, PS3 and Wii for Underworld, and worked on the previous two Tomb Raiders as well.

It’s all speculation at this point, so take it as a rumor until we know something different.

Get loads more over on Tombraiderfanboy.

Tomb Raider: Underworld DLC Beneath the Ashes – delayed earlier in the month – has been scheduled for a February 24 release.

Lara’s Shadow, the next batch of content, will arrive on March 10 as a 1.07Gb download.

Bug fixes will be included in a patch about the same time, and are listed after the jump.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

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This is everywhere so we’ll go with it: Movie mag Empire is rumouring that Warner is making a new Tomb Raider movie that will see the heroine undergo a total reboot.

Apparently the film will be a re-imagining Lara’s her origins, love interest and main villains amongst other things.

Megan Fox is also rumoured to have taken the mantle for the new motion picture.

Totally mental awesome.

By Mike Bowden

Speaking to Times Online, Eidos chief financial officer Robert Brent says that the next Tomb Raider game will see a reboot for the franchise, similar in scale to that of The Dark Knight.

“We need to look at everything, as we develop the next game,” he said.

“Look at how Batman changed successfully, from the rather sad character of the Michael Keaton era to the noir style of The Dark Knight.”

Late last week, Eidos lowered its yearly financial expectations due to poor sales of “triple A products” and developer Crystal Dynamics laid off 30 in wake of poor Tomb Raider: Underworld performance.

By Mike Bowden

Just because. There’s pictures of Alison Carroll “being” Lara Croft at T3′s offices here. That’s it. Look at them.

New Lara Alison Carroll’s told GameInformer that keeping up with the launch of Tomb Raider: Underworld has been a “crazy” experience, one that’s taken her all over the world.

“It’s been crazy,” she said. “I was travelling yesterday so I came from LA and flew over to New York for today, and then today we have had interviews all over New York. I have been ferried around everywhere and it is very exciting, I am meeting lots of new people.

It doesn’t appear to be slowing down, either.

“I’ve got some more dates in the UK next week and then I think I am going of to Italy a couple of weeks after that, but the last two months have been absolutely crazy, I have been all over the globe,” she said.

“I have been all over Europe, and then I’ve been to Australia, Singapore, Dubai, all over Scandinavia, Belgium, Amsterdam, South Africa, and now I am in the States. So it has been a really crazy time.”

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Smile, love. It might never happen. PS3Life.nl’s posted up some photos of Alison Croft, nee Carroll, posing at Hamburg’s Next08 convention.

Seriously, Alison. Cheer up. With a chest that size, how could you possibly be sad?

Not pretty. Ekstra Bladet – or “The Sun of Denmark,” as Mike would have it – has put some basic archaeology questions to Lara model Alison Carroll on camera despite constant protestations. The results are a bit of a car crash.

Said the paper, translated from the Danish: “She’s beautiful to look at, but the actress behind the new Lara Croft game is not the sharpest of knifes in the draw, to put it mildly. See what happens when Ekstra Bladet asked her three question about ‘her field’.”

Eidos will be thrilled.

After the break. See Lara ride around on her motorbike through some jungle on a muddy, road. The handling looks a little to loose for our liking, but I guess we’ll know soon enough.

Game’s out November 21.

By Mike Bowden

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Speaking in the latest dev movie for Tomb Raider: Underworld – found on CVG – lead animator Primo Navidad has claimed that the latest edition of Lara Croft has around 2,000 animations.

There’s a ton of new gameplay footage in that movie, showing off Lara’s new moves and giving yet another look at those lovely environments. And some tigers. Lest we forget.

Take a look.

On PCGH. These look as though they’ve been grabbed from a promotional movie, or something. Hardly the most savoury thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning, but there we are. Help yourself.

CVG has a video from Eidos which charts how the company turned a mere secretary in to Lara Croft: greatest woman on earth, or something.

Yes, see the amazing Alison Carroll become Lara through the CVG link.

We’re glad it’s the weekend tomorrow.

By Mike Bowden

After the break. Alison Carroll, as you now should most definitely know, is the new Lara Croft model. Here, she talks to ITN about wanting to be on the TV. Which is lucky. Because she is.

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While Eidos has been keen to play in the fact new Lara Alison Carroll was a receptionist until picked to be the new Lara model, it appears the high-kicking starlet’s rags to riches story may not be all it seems.

Alison is a registered model and is represented by MCS, the same agency behind Love Island “favourite” Alicia Douvall and 80s Page 3 icon, Linda Lusardi.

Which is a bit odd, as Eidos put out a press release today claiming, “Unlike her predecessors Alison does not come from a modelling background, but with 12 years’ experience as a professional display gymnast, she is completely at ease at the thought of appearing in front of thousands of screaming Lara Croft fans.

“She certainly had no trouble impressing the judges when she competed against hundreds of other hopefuls in the search to find the live model of the action heroine.”

MCS just told us that Alison’s been on the agency’s books since February 2007. Is 18 months a “background”? Eidos seems to think not.

Thanks to the mole.