Another day, another leak ahead of The Game Awards 2025 — which is set to feature a look at what’s next for Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft.
Ahead of time, cover artwork has leaked for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, what looks to be a full remake of the franchise’s original game. There are stills from a new trailer, too, showing Lara Croft in action.
Croft’s design here appears to be a blend of the character’s ‘classic’ design with her look from the franchise’s more recent reboot trilogy, which showcased her origins. It’s presumed that this remake will fully position the series’ first Tomb Raider adventure as taking place after that trilogy, as had always been suggested.
Se habría filtrado “Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis”, el remake del primer juego con algunas imágenes, portada incluida.
After the images leaked online last night via video game forum ResetEra, fans quickly noted that Croft’s box art pose perfectly matches that seen in The Game Awards’ official social media teaser for tonight, where she is stood atop a rock, with one arm outstretched, iconic dual pistols raised.
Indeed, Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has been working now for several years on its next chapter of the franchise. Here’s hoping we get some word of that tonight too.
Alongside all this, we know there’s a live-action Tomb Raider series in the works at Amazon in partnership with Story Kitchen, starring Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner as Lara Croft. The show will, per Story Kitchen, “reinvent the franchise on a massive scale” and will interconnect “live-action television series and video games into a unified storytelling universe.” How will it all connect? What else is in the works? We may well find out more tonight.
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Earlier this year, a Switch Online + Expansion Pack trailer supposedly teased some upcoming releases for the N64 library. One of these games was Forsaken 64, which was released in September, and another title spotted was Rayman 2: The Great Escape, and that’s now returning next week.
This month, stalk the streets of ancient Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, cut down demons across a fallen empire in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, shred through hell’s underworld in Skate Story, or soar among the clouds in Granblue Fantasy: Relink. All these titles and more are available in December’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup. Meanwhile, Soulcalibur III brings arcade action to PlayStation Plus Deluxe. All of these will be available to play December 16, aside from Skate Story, which released into the service December 9.
PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe | Game Catalog
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage | PS5, PS4
Play as a cunning young street thief seeking answers in this majestic Middle Eastern open world. Experience the home of the original Assassins in this exciting narrative-driven, open world adventure. In this smaller scale, back to basics Assassin’s caper, you play Basim, a young street thief seeking answers. Roam the richly-detailed, reactive and vibrant streets of 9th century Baghdad, uncovering the mysteries of the past as you fight to secure your future. Stalk the shadows and become the ultimate assassin. Enjoy 6 hours of extra gameplay with Valley of Memory, the major update that expands Basim’s story and introduces the breathtaking new region of AlUla, with gameplay improvements across the full game.
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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty | PS5, PS4
184 AD, Later Han Dynasty China. The land is overcome by chaos and destruction. The imperial dynasty that prospered for many years is now about to collapse. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a dramatic, action-packed story of a nameless militia soldier fighting for survival in a dark fantasy version of the Later Han Dynasty where demons plague the Three Kingdoms. Fight off deadly creatures and enemy soldiers using swordplay based on the Chinese martial arts, attempting to overcome the odds by awakening the true power from within.
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Skate Story | PS5
You are a demon in the Underworld, made out of glass and pain. The Devil has given you a skateboard with a simple deal: Skate to the Moon and swallow it — and you shall be freed. Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of The Emptylands as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Learn to master your weight and motion to conquer the weeping concrete. Savour the ritualistic beauty as you set your feet to pop a perfect kickflip. Skate fast to destroy vicious demons, help a forgetful frog, and save other tortured souls on your journey from fragile beginner to hardened skater. Push through hell and discover The Devil’s greatest weakness: humility, perseverance, and a disgustingly sweet backside tailslide. All you need is your skateboard.
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Granblue Fantasy: Relink | PS5, PS4
Explore the Sky Realm, a floating archipelago set against a great blue expanse, and battle to decide its fate in this 3D action RPG. Become captain of a skyfaring crew as you sail with a colourful cast of crewmates on your quest to find Estalucia, a legendary island said to lie beyond the sky’s end. Visit the Zegagrande Skydom and unveil a web of intrigue that will embroil you in a battle for the fate of the entire Sky Realm. Create a party of four, each with unique weapons, skills and combat styles, and master a deep real-time combat system with team-based techniques including Link Attacks and Chain Bursts. Take on quests, battle enemies and score valuable loot solo, or party up with friends for up to four-player co-op.
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Planet Coaster 2 | PS5
Reach new heights of creativity, management, and sharing as you construct the theme parks of your dreams combining epic water rides and coasters to delight and thrill your park guests. Balance thrilling your guests with managing your budget – populate your park with amazing efficiently powered attractions and the right amenities to boost your rating and become a theme park master. Enhanced and improved building and pathing tools let you create spectacular, true-to-life theme parks, complete with sprawling plazas. Dive into a world of creativity with nine distinct themes, from returning classics like Pirate and Western, to exciting new additions in Viking and Mythology. With thousands of themed customisable pieces at your fingertips, every creation will be truly unique.
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Cat Quest III | PS5, PS4
Play as a swashbuckling privateer in this 2.5D open-world action RPG set in a fantastical pirate-themed world, the Purribean — an archipelago swarming with Pi-rats searching for the Northern Star. a long-lost mythical treasure. Alongside your trusty spirit companion, set sail through the Purribean in your very own ship! But beware, the seas are dangerous, and a mutiny is nigh as the hordes of Pi-rats under the order of the Pirate King hunt you down… Cat Quest III is playable either solo or in local co-op.
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Lego Horizon Adventures | PS5
Journey to a distant future, where the land is made of Lego bricks and lush nature has reclaimed the Earth. Join hunter Aloy as she battles to save Earth from an ancient digital demon, and a gang of sunworshippers who want to live in a world without shade so they can soak up the rays while everything burns. Hunt machines on your own as Aloy, or unlock colourful heroes Varl, Teersa, and Erend, and use their unique skills to defeat enemies and overcome challenges. Share the fun with another player online, or via innovative couch co-op on a single screen, so you’re always in the same world together.
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Soulcalibur III | PS5, PS4
Chosen by history, a man becomes a warrior. Engraved into history, a warrior becomes a hero. Enjoy this timeless tale of swords and souls, transcending history and worlds, destined to be told forever. Experience Soulcalibur III, originally released on PlayStation 2, enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. The Soulcalibur series is a weapon-based fighting series of games where players put their mastery of their character’s weapon to the test. The game features the Chronicles of the Sword mode that fuses real-time simulation with versus fighting-style action. In Soul Arena, choose between Quick Play for relentless battles against CPU opponents and Mission mode for fights set under special conditions.
*PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and PlayStation Plus Deluxe lineups may differ by region. Please check PlayStation Store on release day.
Earlier this week, Nintendo Music got an update which added a “Year in Review” feature to the application. Nintendo has now officially made this available to Switch Online members.
Nintendo is offering a cool new Metroid Prime 4: Beyond reward on its My Nintendo Store in the US and Canada. It’s a holographic poster set, and it will set you back 1,000 Platinum Points.
I think there is a very compelling case for Twitter not being the place that information about, well, honestly anything, should be casually shared in a matter of fact manner. It is a site for, if we must use it, posting things like “just downloaded some MP3s to my iPod Touch,” not sharing that Arrowhead are currently testing a roguelite mode in Helldivers 2, which is exactly what the game’s creative director Johan Pilestedt did today.
With trends and trendy games passing by these days, I’d understand if you’d already forgotten about Suika Game. I am not here to remind you of its existence to talk about it, more so use it as genre context for Dogpile, a new game that is essentially the question “what if Suika Game actually had a bunch of dogs and was also a roguelike deckbuilder?” I know, I know, there are too many of those already, but this one’s just so charming!
Hot off the back of yesterday’s Switch and Switch 2 system update, Nintendo has today released a patch for its Parental Controls app, bumping things up to ver. 2.3.0.
The big addition this time around is a new Dark Mode, which will turn on automatically according to your phone’s settings — so no more glaring white light in the gloomy winter evenings. There are also more options on the ‘Extend Daily Play-Time Limit’ menu, bonus bedtime settings and more.
Build a Bright Future in Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias
Alex Boiret – Lead Narrative Designer, 11 bit Studios
Build a Bright Future* in Frostpunk 2’s Fractured Utopias! (*definitions of ‘Bright Future’ may vary – ask your local faction representative).
Since the launch of Frostpunk 2, attention has mostly been on the ‘Story’ mode, the long-awaited follow-up to Frostpunk’s ‘New Home’ scenario, which focuses on the fate of New London thirty years after the Great Storm.
As much as we are proud of the six-part story, it somewhat overshadowed the ‘Utopia Builder’ mode. Unlike the first Frostpunk, where the ‘Endless Mode’ was added in a patch to answer the popular player demand to, well, play endlessly, Frostpunk 2 was engineered from the ground up as a sandbox to tell new emergent stories. In ‘Utopia Builder’, players are tasked with leading a new city made up of different communities and factions in pursuit of the titular, elusive ‘utopia’.
The ‘Fractured Utopias’ DLC logically doubles down on this theme, by giving each faction unique tools leading up to their ideal society. Here a peek at how it works, and how to make it work for you and your faction:
Each faction now has a ‘Utopia Tree’, with twelve unique nodes per faction unlocking faction hubs, laws, and a flurry of new perks and abilities. Move the City in the ideological direction a faction wishes and they will reward you with points to invest in their Utopia Tree. Unlock all the nodes in one tree and bring your faction’s vision to life (including remodelling the city to their liking by converting enough housing districts to their needs and building enough of their hubs), and you will forever unite your City behind their vision, solving Tension.
Whether you want to usher in the dawn of a ‘New Humankind’ with the Proteans, crave establishing a ‘Machine City’ through the power of compute with the Technocrats, or pave the way for any of the other six factions’ promised lands, ‘Fractured Utopias’ will allow you to reshape your society in fresh new (did someone say twisted?) ways.
Obviously, everyone’s utopia is someone else’s dystopia, so if you’re not quite ready to indulge factions, we have your back too The free content update we’re launching alongside the DLC adds thirteen so-called ‘moderate laws’ for you to try and tread the middle way. Pass all of them to try and appease the City.
That’s only a sneak peak of what we cooked up in Fractured Utopias. All this new content obviously comes with over one hundred new consequences and narrative events which will demand the type of difficult decisions the Frostpunk IP got you used to. And if you’re one of these people who only click on choices with blue gameplay effect text, then have fun making your bed and sleeping in it. But whatever you do, remember: the City must not fall!
The first DLC for Frostpunk 2 embraces the core concept of Utopia Builder mode, giving it more structure, expanding its scope, and emphasizing the weight of the player’s choices. New mechanics give each faction a bold ideological goal – and ways to pursue it. But a dream of a perfect society never comes without a cost.
Each faction now envisions its own unique Utopia, structured into a tree and powered by affinities. As you earn their trust, you’ll unlock specialized laws, buildings, and abilities that reinforce their distinct identity. Unlock all nodes of the Utopia Tree to enact a singular vision on the city – binding your entire society to a single path forward and permanently resolving all the Tension.
Your city may not fall. But whose future will it serve?
Key New Features:
8 unique faction Utopias, each with new systems, tools, and endgame
12 unique unlocks (laws / new HUBs / Abilities, etc.) per faction
8 new faction hubs (1 per faction)
8 new faction-specific variants of housing district
