Tomb Raider trailer has drowning, falling, screaming
Lara manages to go to hell and back in the space of three minutes of footage that make up the first Tomb Raider trailer, which shows her avoiding certain death several times to reach the shores of the explorable island on which the game takes place. The CG video above looks incredible, of course, but the screenshots we’ve seen of Tomb Raider so far show that the in-game graphics aren’t a world away from the cinematics. You can find out more about the Tomb Raider reboot in our Tomb Raider preview, or the official Tomb Raider site.
Just Cause 2 video maps every in-game death in one haunting landscape
11.3 million people died colliding with objects or the ground in Just Cause 2. If you map them all in a spatial area to scale with the Just Cause 2 world map, then you get the video above, a beautiful and strangely poignant ghostly landscape made up of the terminus points of millions of players.
It goes to show two things. Firstly, it’s easy to underestimate the amount of falling out of things onto things that happens in Just Cause 2. Secondly, hardly any players seem to have explored the spaces between the world’s major roads and settlements, suggesting that vast swathes of Just Cause 2′s massive world went relatively untrodden. There’s even a cloud of death hanging miles above the ground. How did so many people die of collisions all the way up there?
Age of Conan getting extra solo quests
Age of Conan is set to grow with a series of new solo-questlines designed to add extra instances for players who prefer to adventure alone. New dungeons and solo boss encounters are set to be added to the exotic realm of Khitai added by last year’s Rise of the Godslayer expansion. Read on for details.
First Tomb Raider screenshots released
The first images of the new Tomb Raider game have arrived, showing Lara exploring a dangerous network of caves inhabited by occult obsessed axemen. You’ll find them all after the jump.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light gets online co-op
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light turned out to be really rather good, but it was missing a crucial feature on release: you could only play the excellent co-op mode locally. Thanks to the latest Steam patch, that is no longer the case. Players can now combine forces over the internet to stop the dark god Xolotl, so if you were waiting for this patch to pick up the game, now’s the time. It’s available to buy on Steam, to find out why it’s so good, check out our review.
