NEW TOMB RAIDER VIDEO-GAME 'MOVING FORWARD'

[ 22 August 2024 ]

Amazon Games boss Christoph Hartmann has told IGN the upcoming Tomb Raider video-game powered by Unreal Engine 5 is 'going well' and 'moving forward' and Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics is 'fairly sheltered from everything going on with Embracer.' Hartmann was responding to a question on whether turmoil at parent company Embracer Group would impact the studio.

"The studio, from what I can tell, is fairly sheltered from everything going on with Embracer. I mean, it has to because Embracer never was one company. It was just an accumulation of an incredibly large amount of independent businesses; and it's not just games development, they're like books and games and this and that. And they always were very sheltered. People obviously look at what the parent company is doing, but it never impacted on resources, never led to any changes on management for them, so they're fine." Hartmann tells IGN.

"I mean, doing a new Tomb Raider, the bar is so high. The longer you go, the expectation goes higher, so it's a huge, huge task, but things are progressing. I mean, there's some really great ideas here. Obviously, we're not going to share any with you even if we would love to, but things are going well, things are moving forward. And from what I could tell, Crystal was pretty sheltered... the studio went through a couple of ownership changes anyway before, it's not brand-new for them. They kind of were doing games with moving around anyway. And like, okay, new sheriff... you know what I mean, new owner in town. Let's just keep on doing what we do and make games."

Hop on over to IGN to read the full interview with Christoph Hartmann.

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