Regardless of Amazon’s October layoffs, the Tomb Raider mission between Amazon Video games and Crystal Dynamics stays in lively growth, in line with a company-wide memo from Amazon. Although further particulars concerning the subsequent Tomb Raider sport stay elusive, the information is encouraging in mild of Amazon’s current information.
On October 28, Amazon announced it was laying off over 14,000 staff members throughout the board as a part of an effort to “cut back paperwork” inside the firm. Amazon Video games bore the brunt of Amazon’s cuts, as its Irvine and San Diego studios would see important employees reductions. Because of the staffing cuts on the Irvine studio, Amazon Video games’ MMORPG New World: Aeternum will not obtain further content material updates. Nonetheless, Amazon Video games pledged to maintain New World: Aeternum‘s servers out there via 2026 and would notify customers with a six-month discover previous to the sport’s servers shutting down.
Amazon Is Nonetheless Transferring Ahead With Tomb Raider
Whereas Amazon Video games is shifting its focus toward Amazon Luna and other projects, its ongoing work with Crystal Dynamics is not going to go to waste. Based on a company-wide memo from Amazon govt Steve Increase, Amazon is continuous work with third-party companions on upcoming tasks, together with with Crystal Dynamics on the subsequent Tomb Raider sport. Nonetheless, different particulars concerning the mission weren’t revealed. Increase additionally confirmed that Maverick Video games and Amazon would proceed work on an untitled, open-world driving simulator, and that Amazon Video games’ Montreal studio would end its growth of March of Giants. In any other case, Amazon Video games will shift its focus to creating social gathering video games for Amazon Luna, with Studio 5’s Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg being an instance of what players can anticipate from Amazon shifting ahead.
As of this writing, the one recognized particulars concerning the subsequent Tomb Raider sport embody its utilization of Unreal Engine 5 and that it will likely be a single-player journey title. Moreover, Lara Croft’s appearance in the next Tomb Raider entry will mix her outfit from the Survivor trilogy together with her authentic design, which contains a mild blue tank prime, brown cargo shorts, a backpack, and two pistols. This design for Lara Croft has been utilized for crossovers with different video games, together with Useless By Daylight and Magic: The Gathering.
Nonetheless, the information of Tomb Raider‘s continued growth got here at a tumultuous time for Crystal Dynamics as effectively. In late August, Crystal Dynamics conducted its second round of layoffs in 2025, following the cancellation of Good Darkish within the wake of Microsoft’s summer time layoffs. Solely time will inform how the adjustments from Amazon and Crystal Dynamics will form the way forward for the Tomb Raider franchise.
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February 14, 2025
- ESRB
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Teen // Blood, Violence
Supply: Variety
