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Lara Croft returns in Shadow of the Tomb Raider on September 14th

Lara Croft returns in Shadow of the Tomb Raider on September 14th

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The next Tomb Raider game is coming out this year. Square Enix has just announced Shadow of the Tomb Raider — the third game in the rebooted Tomb Raider franchise that began in 2013 — for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, set to release on September 14th.

There’s not much here in terms of information yet, just a cinematic trailer with a few quick shots of the upcoming game and what looks to be an Aztec-inspired jungle setting. But Square Enix is promising a full reveal next month on April 27th, and with E3 right around the corner in June, we’ll almost certainly see more of it there, too.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider follows 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider, and will once again see franchise hero Lara Croft facing off against the shadowy Trinity organization. Presumably, there will also be a supernatural mystery to uncover, waves of goons to take down with a variety of guns and bows, and tombs to, uh, raid.

Unlike the first two games in the rebooted series, Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is being developed by Eidos Montreal (which had previously worked on Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided before that franchise was reportedly put on hold). Crystal Dynamics, which created the first two modern Tomb Raider titles, is instead working on an Avengers game in partnership with Marvel.

While Rise of the Tomb Raider was a timed Xbox exclusive, only coming to PS4 and PC several months after it released on the Xbox One, Shadow of the Tomb Raider doesn’t seem to have that restriction: it will be released on all three platforms simultaneously on September 14th.