March 05, 2010

EDITED on March 7, 2010: I add more details about the game and replace into proper section the new concept art.

- Wallpapers LC: Guardian of Light: I added the new section about this game, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and I made the first wallpaper including the new logo and background.



- Concept Arts LC: Guardian of Light: I put properly in this section the first Concept Art, where we can see Lara fighthing against spiders.



- Screenshots LC: Guardian of Light Screens: The first 6 screenshots of the game. Remember, this is not Tomb Raider, just a Lara Croft game, the real Tomb Raider game will be more later.



- Info LC: Guardian of Light Screens: I update into main game section information about the release date, platforms, plot and other details.

Lara Croft and the guardian of light



SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 4th 2010 – Crystal Dynamics®, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light™, a new game developed by Crystal Dynamics, which will be released via digital download in 2010.

“This is a really exciting project for Crystal Dynamics, we have created something completely new and very different to what people might be expecting,” said Darrell Gallagher, General Manager of Crystal Dynamics. “Lara Croft is such an iconic character in videogames, with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light we have created what we believe is a truly original digital experience.”

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be shown strictly “behind closed doors” at this year’s Game Developers Conference beginning on March 9th.

Crystal Dynamics is an award-winning studio located in San Francisco. Founded in 1992, the studio has created and developed key game franchises such as: Legacy of Kain®, Pandemonium®, Gex® and most recently the Tomb Raider® series.

For more information visit www.laracroftandtheguardianoflight.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook - @Crystaldynamics – Facebook.com/LaraCroft

Interview: Crystal Dynamics Studio

Crystal Dynamics General Manager Darrell Gallagher has been interviewed by Gamasutra.com

At the beginning of last year, the team had brought closure to what it views as a trilogy in the history of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: Legend, Anniversary and Underworld. As 2009 was beginning, the studio's operations director Darrell Gallagher was asked to step up as head of studio, and he saw his first task as making sure Crystal Dynamics was correctly positioned to be competitive for the year ahead.

Although Gallagher can't reveal specific details of what the studio is working on, he says it's now fully staffed for two projects, after it pared down in mid-2009 to focus, as it said at the time, more directly on Tomb Raider. The biggest evolution for the staff is they now specifically aim for a culture of experimentation and ambition, he says.

When asked what platforms the team is focused on or whether they've begun to develop games for the motion control input devices Sony and Microsoft will launch later this year, "I can't speak to what we are or aren't doing for specific platforms," Gallagher replies. But whatever they do work on is specific to an individual platform, he maintains.

The "right" platform depends on the franchise, the studio team, and the audience, Gallagher adds. The increasingly divergent focus of current-generation platforms "is a great array of opportunities," he says. "We have an opportunity to tailor our games toward a particular experience or particular consumer. For us, we really need to ensure that we pick the right opportunities for our franchises.

Although it's developed numerous titles and brands over the years, Tomb Raider remains far and away its biggest. "What I can say is Tomb Raider, as a franchise, is absolutely part of the Crystal fabric," he says. "It's a key franchise and awesome to be part of... we're excited about what we've been exploring, and we're excited to share it with the fans at some point."

Gallagher says the team looks forward to sharing a little more information on their plans at GDC in a couple of months.

Complete News: www.gamasutra.com

March 02, 2010

- Movie Poll: Vote for your favorite actress for to role Lara in the next Tomb Raider movie, we will send the results to EIDOS and Warner Bros once is finish the expire time on March 28th. It´s only allow one vote per computer.



- Documentaries Videos: As you know, some time ago were a poll for to choose a Derby name, officially now the winner is Lara Croft. Below you can watch a video news from BBC where they talk about this news, and we can see as well to Judith Gibbons, english Lara voice from Tomb Raider 2.



- Various Videos: A new video about the Toby Gard Role in his proffesional carreerin Tomb Raider and Galleon, his only projects.



- TR Legend Concept Arts: New concept arts of TR Legend by Toby Gard, the creator of this drawings about Lara never seen before and recently updated in his website.



- TR Anniversary Concept Arts: Two new concept arts of TR Anniversary by Toby Gard, this time are only these two pictures founded in his website too.



- Lara Vanessa Demouy Gallery: I update with more quality and more photos into her gallery.



- Model Vanessa Demouy Gallery: I add 3 new photos about Vanessa Demouy as model at the bottom of the list.



- Colección RyanTM: Una nueva galería colección por RyanTM, visita su galería para descubrir su colección fan.



- Colección Sermongar: Nuevas fotos de mi colección Sermongar, entre los que se incluye algun regalo de cumpleaños de parte de mi novia.



- Galería Teficroft: Un nuevo montaje photoshop de Teficroft es incluido en su galería.



- Galería Todderzz: Dos nuevos montajes en la galería de Todderzz basados en diseños de Tomb Raider Origins.



- Galería Pablo: Una nueva galería fan de dibujos, en esta ocasión, Pablo Gayarre me envió dos de sus trabajos photoshop, son dos fotos de Lara Croft untooned, o lo que es los mismo Lara croft de carne y hueso, la cara de Lara es una fusión entre Anjelina Jolie, Megan Fox y Jennifer Garner, y el cuerpo es de Jessica Alba. Ir a la nueva galería de Pablo y admirar su gran obra.



- Fans Videos: This time, a new special video about Lara´s Birtdhay and Valentine´s day, a spanish series called "Locuras a lo Croft" Crazy Croft, thanks to Ren Spyro.



- XNA Lara 7.5:The new version of XNA Lara, the version 7.5 include as new features: change into the values of Gamma, Brightness, saturation, contrast, and the undo command under the Control+Z command and NumPad5. Thanks to Dusan for this amazing program.



- TR AOD Walkthrough: The TR AOD walkthrough is now available into the new design.

- TR AOD Video Walkthrough: And now, for first time in Croft Generation, the Video walkthrough of TR AOD, with the permission from the youtube user LaraPL, thank you.

And all this by the moment, I keep working in a new update more complete for next time, thank you for follow Croft Generation.

Delayed Promotion

I was talking with my contact in EIDOS, the surprise for Lara's birthday on February 14 had a slight change of plans, and instead any new promotion game, it was changed for one official competition in the official forums of tombraider.com, the winner got lara's figure and it already finished.

He apologized to all community since he didn't sent any email to inform webmaster about, but he will do for future competitions.

I kept asking about the next videogame promotion, they must be planning something for short time, his exact words were: "Nothing is wrong, don't worry, slight change of plans, as soon as there is some news to be released I'll make sure you are the first to hear about it", "There's nothing I can say at the moment though".

This maybe could means they had change of plans for to get extra time, and maybe it could start in short time the promotion about the new Tomb Raider game. Keep an eye on the website, I will keep you in information.

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