Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider game "will be unveiled this autumn and is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of the current financial year," Eidos told the City today, as insiders claimed that the version they had seen was a lot more responsive and closer to the series' original ideology than previous sequels.

Apparently the new look Lara Croft, redeveloped by Crystal Dynamics after UK-based Core Design's Angel of Darkness title was so poorly received, is no long hamstrung by the 'turning circle' that afflicted previous Laras, and is a lot less fiddly in general.a