This week marks one of the biggest events on the modern video game calendar, as studios from around the world bring their newest projects to the annual Summer Game Fest event in California. This includes a new look at Amazon Game Studios’ impending reboot of the long-running Tomb Raider franchise, coming in early 2027.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a ground-up “reimagining” of the original 1996 Tomb Raider, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in October. Once again, it follows British archaeologist Lara Croft (Alix Wilton Regan) on an expanded look into her journey to collect the scattered pieces of an artifact from the lost civilization of Atlantis. Along the way, she’ll solve puzzles, navigate treacherous labyrinths, and fight dinosaurs, as one does.
The original Tomb Raider’s story and environments have been rebuilt with Unreal Engine 5 for Legacy of Atlantis, which turns the game into less of a series of vaguely connected puzzle boxes and more of an open-ended area that you can freely explore. It’s currently planned for release on Feb. 12, 2027.
Legacy of Atlantis is a co-production between the Polish studio Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset, Shadow Warrior) and Crystal Dynamics, which maintains offices in Texas, California, and Bellevue, Wash.
It’s also the first step in Amazon’s planned franchise reboot of Tomb Raider, which was first announced back in 2022. Legacy will lead directly into a brand-new game, Catalyst, which is planned for release later next year and is a direct follow-up to 2008’s Tomb Raider: Underworld.
The new Legacy of Atlantis trailer premiered as part of Sony’s semi-regular State of Play, a livestreamed showcase of new and upcoming games for the PlayStation platform.
Other Pacific Northwest gaming news out of the State of Play included the official debut of Marathon’s second “season” of content, Nightfall, which resets players’ progress in order to present them with new challenges and an even playing field.
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