1296.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - NEW LARA CROFT BOOK TO DEBUT IN 2005

Since the game Tomb Raider was first released in 1996, its protagonist Lara Croft has become an international celebrity. The virtual archaeologist-adventuress has been featured in various sequels to the original game, a line of action figures, two Hollywood films starring Angelina Jolie, forty comic books, a series of novels, and a variety of clothing, merchandise, and ephemera. She has appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek, spawned innumerable Internet fan sites and a library of adulatory fan fiction, become a pornographic sex symbol, and even inspired a look-alike beauty pageant.

Last Updated: Dec 29, 2004  

1297.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - JOLIE TOURS REFUGEE CAMPS IN LEBANON

Hollywood actress and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie and her four-year-old adopted son paid a Christmas visit to Palestinian orphans living in refugee camps in Lebanon. The 29-year-old Academy award winner and star of the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider wanted to meet refugee children and introduce her Cambodian-born son, Maddox, to those less advantaged than himself, an aid official told AFP.

Last Updated: Dec 24, 2004  

1298.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - MODEL SHOWS SHE'S GOOD WITH FIGURES

Model, television presenter and marathon runner Nell McAndrew, 31, carried the Olympic torch across London’s Millennium Bridge in the first-ever World Relay this year. As the forces’ sweetheart, she has visited Northern Ireland, Germany and Iraq. Her wartime visits to the troops in the Gulf in May and December 2003 gained her a commendation by the Queen.

Last Updated: Dec 16, 2004  

1299.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - TOMB RAIDER RIDE COMES TO VIRGINIA

Another Hollywood big-screen spectacular comes to life at Paramount's Kings Dominion with the addition of Tomb Raider The Ride , a new multi-sensory adventure for 2005. Inspired by the popular Eidos Interactive, Inc. action games and Paramount Pictures' blockbuster films Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, the park's newest thrill attraction will launch adventurers on the ride of their lives. Click the below images to enlarge brand new construction pictures.

Last Updated: Dec 15, 2004  

1300.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - TOMB RAIDER - THE GREATEST GAME EVER

It was the year Diana divorced Charles, scientists suggested that a microscopic blob might prove life on Mars and an English footballer blamed his poor performance on a fake-posh lass with a fixed, gormless expression and an impossibly contorted body. So here we go, like one of those 'I remember watching TV in 1996' programs only not hosted by a celebrity so low down the list that they could commit mass infanticide in an orphanage for beautiful children and still not get a mention in Heat magazine, but by someone actually informed.

Last Updated: Dec 13, 2004