The situation becomes more and more worrying around The next adventures of Lara Croft. Here is almost two years that the new game Tomb Raider should have been announced and presented. However, while the end of 2025 is fast approaching, we did not still no information. In recent months, we have heard everything and its opposite, not allowing us to be really reassured.
Still in recent months, layoffs have also been chained At Crystal Dynamics. But, each time, the development of the next Tomb Raider would always be spared. This week, we learned that the studio had just been touched by a new wave of deletion of position. And there again, Tomb Raider would not be concerned, apparently.
Crystal Dynamics in great difficulty
Last March, Crystal Dynamics dismissed no less than 17 employees. The studio confirmed that this decision had been made Because of budgetary concerns And in no case because of a lack of performance or skills of the teams. The studio also confirmed that the development of the next Tomb Raider was not impacted by these layoffs.
This week, it is through LinkedIn that we have just learned that the studio came, once again, to dismiss employees. For the moment, we don’t know yet How many people have been affected by this job loss. On the other hand, Crystal Dynamics once again affirms that the teams of Tomb Raider are not not affected by these layoffs.
Today, we have made the decision very difficult to separate from a certain number of our talented colleagues due to the evolution of commercial conditions. This decision was not taken lightly. However, it was necessary to ensure the long -term health of our studio and our fundamental creative priorities in a constantly evolving market.
To all people affected, we recognize you and thank you for your hard work, your talent and your passion. We are committed to offering all the support and resources at our disposal during this transition.
To our teams, players and partners, thank you for your continuous support while we build a creative, sustainable and resilient future together. This includes the future of Tomb Raider, which is not affected by this decision.
Although this declaration is “Reassuring”we are obliged to be quite skeptical about the future of Tomb Raider. At the end of 2022, Amazon Games announced its partnership with Crystal Dynamics for the development of a new game Tomb Raider. The first information had to arrive in 2023Then In 2024. While we are heading to the last straight line of the year 2025, we are always without any information around the next title.
Tomb Raider: History of a future shipwreck?
In April 2024, the situation of embrace group, the group owner of the license Tomb Raiderwas worseletting fear the worst. After a restructuring, we learned that the development of Tomb Raider was not impacted and that the next game was not canceled.
At the end of August of the same year, it was Christoph Hartmann, the boss of Amazon Games who reassured fans During an interview with IGN. Hartmann thus confirmed that the development “progressed” with the objective of putting the bar very high. But that everything was fine and that the information would come in time.
A few days later, in September 2024, Crystal Dynamics began recruitment to prepare the marketing of a game that could only be Tomb Raider. In May 2025, more than 9 months later, a new job offer from Crystal Dynamics suggested that the development of the game was coming to an end and that the final tests were about to start.
Last June, a leaker on Reddit confirmed that the announcement of the next Tomb Raider was close and that the game would target an outing for spring 2026, and more precisely May. On the other hand, the plans were likely to change to avoid confrontation with GTA 6.
While everything seemed to advance in the right direction, in early July, the cancellation of the remake of Perfect Dark (on which Crystal Dynamics gave a helping hand) came to break our hopes. According to Ethan Gach, a journalist from Kotaku, the situation at Crystal Dynamics would be very unstable and the development of the next Tomb Raider game would not be in very good point. Cancellation of the remake of Perfect Dark would not have clearly not arranged the situation you studio.
Since then, we have always been new to the project, and these recent layoffs clearly have nothing to reassure. Case to follow.
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