By Amazon Games boss Christoph Hartmann says that the next proper AAA game in the “Tomb Raider” franchise is progressing well.
Amazon is publishing the next game in the franchise, which is being developed by Crystal Dynamics who were behind both the “Tomb Raider: Legend” trilogy and the more recent reboot trilogy that ended with 2018’s “Shadow of the Tomb Raider”.
Crystal Dynamics is also owned by Embracer Group, the Swedish holding company which has famously undergone major restructuring and layoffs hitting many of its subsiduaries – including Crystal Dynamics.
That led to concern of studio closures and cancelled projects, but Hartmann tells IGN that Crystal Dynamics has gotten through mostly unscathed:
“The studio, from what I can tell, is fairly sheltered from everything going on with Embracer,. I mean, it has to because Embracer never was one company. It was just an accumulation of an incredibly large amount of independent businesses; and it’s not just games development, they’re like books and games and this and that.
And they always were very sheltered. People obviously look at what the parent company is doing, but it never impacted on resources, never led to any changes on management for them, so they’re fine.”
With the game in development for so long, Hartmann says he’s aware expectations are high:
“I mean, doing a new Tomb Raider, the bar is so high. The longer you go, the expectation goes higher, so it’s a huge, huge task, but things are progressing. I mean, there’s some really great ideas here. Obviously, we’re not going to share any with you even if we would love to, but things are going well, things are moving forward.
The studio went through a couple of ownership changes anyway before, it’s not brand-new for them. They kind of were doing games with moving around anyway. And like, okay, new sheriff… you know what I mean, new owner in town. Let’s just keep on doing what we do and make games.”
The talk comes as Amazon’s Prime Video has placed series order for a “Tomb Raider” TV adaptation from Phoebe Waller-Bridge – though recently questions have arisen as to whether it will get made.
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