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Amazon Will Publish The Next Tomb Raider Game

Crystal Dynamics has entered a publishing partnership with Amazon.

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Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider game will see Amazon providing support as a publisher.

"Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics today announced they have reached an agreement under which Crystal Dynamics will develop a new multiplatform Tomb Raider title, with Amazon Games providing full support and publishing the game globally," a press release stated. "The as-yet-untitled new Tomb Raider is a single-player, narrative-driven adventure that continues Lara Croft's story in the Tomb Raider series."

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Crystal Dynamics was acquired by Embracer Group from Square Enix back in May. Following news of the sale, Crystal Dynamics then announced the development of a new Tomb Raider at the State of Unreal event. As the press release reiterates, Tomb Raider wil be made using Unreal Engine 5 and is still in early development.

"Crystal Dynamics has an extraordinary opportunity following our acquisition by Embracer to redefine what a publishing relationship is for Tomb Raider," said Crystal Dynamics head of studio Scot Amos. "Transformative is what we’re looking for, and with Amazon Games, we found a team that shares our creative vision, ambitions, and values for a Lara Croft universe across the spectrum of possibilities."

Amazon previously worked on MMORPGs New World and Lost Ark, making Tomb Raider the first single-player narrative game Amazon will publish.

Crystal Dynamics is also co-developing a Perfect Dark reboot with Microsoft studio The Initiative. The game was first announced in 2020, and The Initiative has undergone a few turbulent staffing shakeups.

There's no release announced for the new Tomb Raider or Perfect Dark yet.

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Interesting!!

I like seeing more and more big players entering into the game industry. Amazon co -publishing with Embracer will allow CD a free ride to hopefully continue on with the Tomb Raider series and bring it into the 9th gen with some powerful AAA content.

I took film history in college, once the big main movie studios of the 40s and 50s broke up, and split off was when Hollywood started pumping out new and risky movies of the 60-80s. It will be good to see more then just a few platforms, and the majority of large AAA games- being made by only a handful of publishers.

More competition the better, I would also like to see Apple, Netflix and even Elon Musk start throwing more money into game development. More the better.

I am sure that Amazon will keep the Tomb Raider franchise multi-platform and on computer (like their successful games New World and Lost Ark). Both games decent enough. Amazon's next big game Blue Protocol is also a MMORPG, and looks okay-ish. I just hope they do not push live service into Tomb Raider, or force some kind of always online.

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Idc about amazon, a new tomb raider gets announced and THATS your takeaway?? Ffs go wash the dishes you're no good here.

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So wait , embracer buys CD to.let amazon publish their biggest IP??

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@afromakka: Embracer, just purchased the franchise rights like an investor buying up part of Samsungs kitchen appliance business or Rockwell buying up porter cable brand. They may publisher or build products under that name and brand, or they may ship that brand or IP over seas for others to do it cheaply and just collect on the residuals on that IP. Similar to how Marvel has shopped its content around to Sony, Disney, Fox, and more.

Amazon has been publishing and investing in games since 2010, mostly vanity projects and live service games recently. So this is nothing new, but this is probably the largest investment so far.

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@jenovaschilld: I highly doubt this will cost them $200 mil, so, no, this isn't Amazon's largest investment.

Also a fair theory, but residuals isn't really Embracer's MO. But then, they didn't have IPs this big before.

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@Barighm: Meant, game investment so far.

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@afromakka: I'm just as confused. It's not like they don't own publishers.

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@Barighm: Embracer gets money from letting Amazon publish the next Tomb Raider game. (probably)

It could finance further expansion through more aquisitions for Embracer. Embracer is all about expanding trough aquisitions rather than growing organically.

Embracer perhaps gets money right about now through the deal. If they would publish Tomb Raider Next themselves, then they would need to invest money for marketing and game development and they might not get money back until 2024 or 2025 or whenever the next game is released.

So maybe Embracer thought it was smart from a business perspective to let Amazon publish the game to free up more money right now from the IP:s they got very cheap when Square Enix made a kind of poor decision to sell, just for Square Enix get money to try to get into the whole new trend with "NFT".

But it is still kind of an unexpected move for Embracer to choose not to publish the game themselves. Maybe Embracer thinks a new AAA Tomb Raider game is a kind of high risk project after Shadow of the Tomb Raider did not become such a big smash hit as some earlier games.

I think for Tomb Raider, it would be ideal to have two teams working on the games like Call of Duty or Assassins Creed, to be able to publish a new game more often than once every four years.

It seems like the new deal is only for one game, not for a number of AAA Tomb Raider games.

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@simonthekid7: Amazon throwing money at Embracer for the right to publish is a plausible theory, but Amazon hardly needs Embracer and Embracer doesn't really need Amazon...

...unless Amazon intends to buy Embracer and all of their IPs which would be a good way to launch Amazon's catalogue into respectability. And we know Embracer loves to wheel and deal. They're very much buy low, sell high. This would be an excellent example of such a move, and building up value with a new Tomb Raider would be exactly what you'd want to do first in this situation.

**Embracer also has Lord of the Rings-of some kind-so Amazon might want that too.

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I guess that means the budget will be big at least. Had figured the series would have to scale back a bit when CD was purchased by Embracer.

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@judaspete: Maybe it's just a distribution deal?

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