Tag: LARACROFT

England honored the seminal video game character Lara Croft with her own street earlier this year. Now, London's St. Pancras International Train Station has given the 'Tomb Raider' heroine another grand tribute, in the form of "the world's largest iPhone." Comprised of 56 functional iPads, the monument continuously brandishes scenes from the new 'Lara Croft and the Guardian of the Light' iOS app, ...

Share Producers and directors, take note: the video game movie -- and the inevitable franchise that follows it -- will never succeed as a film. Sure, that may sound hyperbolic, especially since movies like 'Tombraider' and 'Pokémon' have had significant box office success, but the formula, as it is, it will never work. At Switched, we are the video game generation. We grew up with ...

She has starred in countless video games, been portrayed by Angelina Jolie on the big screen, and now, Lara Croft has a street named after her. Using an online poll, citizens in the British town of Derby voted to name a new stretch of road after the virtual vixen of 'Tomb Raider' fame. According to the BBC News, 89-percent of the 27,000 votes were for Lara Croft, who was created in Derby by ...

One of the few successful "mainstream" female comic writers in the United States, Gail Simone (pictured, below) is the author of DC's 'Birds of Prey,' 'Welcome to Tranquility,' All-New Atom, and will soon take the reigns of 'Wonder Woman.' Her most recent work is for the GameTap network, which commissioned Simone to create an episode for its 'Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series,' a 10-part ...