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After submitting to Lara Croft last week, FIFA is once again No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. FIFA 14 chalks up its tenth week at No.1 and becomes the eleventh title to join an elite group of games, which have recorded over ten weeks atop the …
Read More »Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition halts FIFA 14’s UK charts run
The next-gen reworking of last year’s hit Lara Croft title has debuted at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is a re-release of last year’s hit, which itself grabbed the fourth biggest week one sales of 2013. Claims online say that the …
Read More »Microsoft: Xbox One and PS4 graphics comparisons are ‘way overblown’
The differences in framerates and resolutions between multiplatform games on PS4 and Xbox One are way overblown” according to one senior Microsoft exec. The claim comes following the confirmation that while Square Enix’s Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition runs at 1080p and 60fps on PS4 but manages 1080p and between 30-45fps …
Read More »Tomb Raider hits 60fps on PS4 but only 30fps on Xbox One – report
It is being claimed that Tomb Raider is the next big release to enjoy a notable performance advantage on PS4. A report on Rocket Chainsaw claims that while the game will run in 1080p on both PS4 and Xbox One, it will hit 60fps on Sony’s machine but only 30fps …
Read More »Tomb Raider has finally broken even
Square Enix’s Tomb Raider reboot has finally recouped its development costs. The game arrived in March 2013 and debuted at No.1 in the UK charts, becoming the then most successful launch of the year in the process. But despite sales of 3.4m copies in its first three weeks it fell …
Read More »Square Enix’s latest reboot
March 6th 2013, and Square Enix’s UK team were in jubilant spirits. The publisher had just released Tomb Raider, which achieved the highest Metacritic rating since the 1996 original and went on the sell hundreds of thousands of units in a matter of days. And that followed a 2012 where …
Read More »No Definitive Edition update for PC version of Tomb Raider
PC gamers will not be offered the chance to upgrade their copies of Tomb Raider to the upcoming Definitive Edition version of the game. Some gamers had hoped that the publisher would repeat the offer it laid out for owners of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC in allowing them …
Read More »The critics speak: The gaming press on 2013
This year MCV extended its survey to the games media, with 27 elite members of the press – including journalists from Future, Eurogamer, IGN and national papers. It was a close-fought battle for Game of the?Year between GTA V and The Last of Us, with just two votes separating them. …
Read More »Original Tomb Raider now available on iOS
Seminal 1996 action title Tomb Raider is now available on iOS. The 69p game is compatible with any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 7. It uses (a considerably high number, it must be said) of virtual buttons to recreate the DualShock-friendly original. Lara’s previous forays onto alternative hardware …
Read More »Tomb Raider to hit PS4 and Xbox One next month
Square Enix will release Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on next-gen consoles on January 31st in Europe. The SKU will bundle all of the original title’s post-release DLC as well as a number of other digital extras such as costumes and the like. There will also be some consoles-specific functionality. On …
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