TOBY GARD HONOURED
WITH ELSPA AWARD
Copyright 2003 www.tombraiderchronicles.com
[ August 28th 2003 ]
The Entertainment
and Leisure Software Publishers Association has
awarded Lara Croft creator Toby Gard with an inaugural
place in ELSPA's new Hall Of Fame, a distinguished
Who's Who initiative aimed at honouring game designers
and creators who have made pivotal contributions
to the UK games industry, Games Paper reports.
Tomb Raider, developed by Derbyshire-based studio
Core Design, is one of the video-game industry's
most potent franchise with 30 million unit sales
to date and two major motion pictures starring
Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie.
Although
dogged by recent problems surrounding the release
of The Angel Of Darkness on PS-2 and PC coupled
with a controversial decision by publishers Eidos
Interactive to port development to U.S. based
studio Crystal Dynamics, the Lara Croft Tomb Raider
phenomenon is still expected to leave an indelible
mark on the video-game industry for many years
to come, with a third movie planned for summer
2005 supported by a new Tomb Raider video-game
in the same year.
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