Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered review – a great remaster of Lara Croft’s lost arc
The archaeologist’s earliest adventures show their age, but this revival preserves enough of the games’ treasured elements to keep purists happy
February 2023
Help, I’m obsessed with pressure-washing Lara Croft’s house
Ellie Gibson
I started playing a video game about cleaning for a laugh – now it’s all gotten out of hand and I’m going for the Guinness World Record
January 2023
Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly writing Tomb Raider TV series
The Fleabag star and creator is rumoured to be taking on a new version of the popular video game as part of her deal with Amazon
October 2022
Pushing Buttons newsletter
Pushing Buttons: the ghostly echo of games past sustains me
Climbing my first wall in Tomb Raider, playing Sonic the Hedgehog with my dad … snatches of games I’ve played over the years deliver a world unclouded by nagging doubts
May 2022
Pushing Buttons newsletter
Pushing Buttons: How Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft was let down by generic games
In this week’s newsletter: The franchise has just been sold off on the cheap, but could the original video game heroine be saved by games that see her as more than just eye candy?
November 2021
Celebrating 25 years of Lara Croft with … a cookbook?
This gleefully incongruous piece of tie-in merch pays tribute to a quarter-century of Tomb Raider with recipes. So can we expect a spaghetti carbo-Lara?
January 2020
From Worms to Tomb Raider: classic UK video games celebrated in new stamps
Royal Mail’s set of 12 postage stamps traces Britain’s role at the forefront of the games industry through the 1980s and 90s
March 2018
Now you've seen it
Tomb Raider: new Lara, Daddy Croft, and Indiana Jones ripoffs - discuss with spoilers
From kickass heroine to soppy student snowflake: the many lives of Lara Croft
October 2017
The Snowman, Yogi Bear and Hollywood's unintentionally funny movie posters
The campaign for serial killer thriller The Snowman has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, and it’s not the first time a designer has caused accidental lols
September 2017
Film blog
Tomb Raider: is the Alicia Vikander reboot just Gap Yah: The Movie?
A privileged young white woman gallivants around the developing world in search of adventure … is it Lara Croft or White Saviour Barbie?
October 2016
At home with Tomb Raider's Lara Croft: 'There was probably too much murder'
It’s been 20 years since original Tomb Raider. But who is the woman behind the legend? Ellie Gibson visited the famed archeologist in her Surrey mansion to find out
May 2016
Uncharted 4: is the looter-adventurer character a type of cultural imperialism?
We still love the exploits of characters like Nathan Drake and Lara Croft, but this may change as attitudes to cultural theft harden
April 2016
Alicia Vikander to play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider reboot
The recent Oscar winner for The Danish Girl will resurrect the role famously played by Angelina Jolie in a new take on the action heroine
March 2016
Star Wars' Daisy Ridley on the hunt for Lara Croft role in Tomb Raider reboot
Force Awakens star hopes to take archeological adventurer role in series based on the hugely popular video game
December 2015
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The best Android games of 2015
From Vainglory and Prune to Lara Croft Go, Alphabear and Minecraft: Story Mode, the 25 best games for Android of the year
The best iPhone and iPad games of 2015
From Her Story and Prune to Lara Croft Go, Alphabear, Alto’s Adventure and Minecraft Story Mode: the 25 best iOS games of the year
Why game-makers want to get inside your head
Simon Parkin
In the first of a series of monthly columns, our critic examines the growing issue of mental health in the design of new titles
November 2015
Games reviews roundup: Fallout 4; Rise of the Tomb Raider; Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
Rise of the Tomb Raider review – all action but too few risks
