1.   TOP COW RELEASE LARA PRINT

Top Cow Productions, in association with graphic artist Joe Jusko, present the first poster size image of Lara Croft which is now available from their online shop. Top Cow has been producing the Tomb Raider comics, based on the Eidos Interactive video game starring Lara Croft, for the past two years with issue ten hitting the shelves this month.

2.   UNOFFICIAL TEXTURE EDITOR LAUNCHED

Budding Tomb Raider level designers will glean with excitement at the news that John Jones of Croft's Gate, an affiliate of the GameSpy Network, have released the first unofficial Texture Editor for Chronicles Level Editor users. The Texture Editor enables the porting of bitmaps into the application which are then converted to tiled images and applied, via the Chronicles Level Editor, to the rooms.

3.   COMING SOON: PROJECT EDEN

Designed by the team that created the original Tomb Raider, Project Eden strikes into the action-adventure genre with a radical combination of action and adventure featuring interchangeable 1st and 3rd person viewpoints. With control over a team of four characters, gameplay relies heavily on character interaction and is either single player (co-operative) or four player (network). Command may also be switched from characters to remotely operated equipment and first person viewpoint allows the character to see torso and feet as well as the realtime shadow.

4.   EIDOS ROLL OUT FATE OF THE DRAGON

In the confusion following the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, rival warlords take control of their respective territories and set up their own kingdoms, splitting China into three parts. As one of these three warlords, build your own regime, develop new technologies, and create a mighty army in an attempt to control the Three Kingdoms and reunify China.

5.   BRAGMAN NYMAN CAFARELLI SOLD TO INTERPUBLIC

Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc, which owns Industry Entertainment who manage a host of actors including Angelina Jolie and Tobey Maguire, has increased it's hold on the entertainment industry with the acquisition of Hollywood PR agency Bragman Nyman Cafarelli, PR Newswire reports today. Based in Beverly Hills and providing employment for 85 public relations officers, Bragman Nyman Cafarelli clients include Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Columbia TriStar Television and Paramount Home Video.