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Lara Croft Can't Rescue Eidos
News The creator of the famous "Tomb Raider" series of adventure games, and their ubiquitous heroine Lara Croft, said it expects its full year earnings, ending March 2000, will be roughly £26m. Shares of Eidos (quote: EID), the UK's biggest gaming...
[January 18, 2000, 12:38]
Eidos Misses Film Opportunity
News Eidos, the interactive games publisher that owns the rights to Lara Croft, is missing out by not releasing a new game to coincide with the film based on its famous character, according to industry observers.
[June 15, 2001, 13:44]
News Roundup: GSM World 2001 In Cannes
News Ericsson recruits Lara Croft Wed, 21 Feb Mobile phones in Lara Croft film to boost Ericsson handset popularity Companies like Palm, Ericsson and HP all used GSM World 2001 to unveil their latest hot products while mobile bigwigs used the Congress...
[February 22, 2001, 10:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Online, this takes the form of Lara Croft -- abundantly appointed cyberbabe -- pulling a big switch to (as we so delicately put it) Turn Us On at midday. The unveiling ceremony involved a large number of Ziffies holding plastic cups of champagne...
[November 1, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Online, this takes the form of Lara Croft -- abundantly appointed cyberbabe -- pulling a big switch to (as we so delicately put it) Turn Us On at midday. The unveiling ceremony involved a large number of Ziffies holding plastic cups of champagne...
[November 1, 1997, 7:00]
News Schmooze: The End Of The Merger Marathon
News In far more important news, Eidos revealed its latest real-life model for Lara Croft this week, along with a preview of the next game, Dark Angel. It's Tomb Raider, the Goth edition: there's lots of gore, murky settings where it's hard to see...
[March 22, 2002, 13:06]
The Tomb Raider Returns
News The new model, Dutch-born Jill de Jong is a relative unknown, but it won't take long to change that -- becoming Lara Croft ensures a high profile. Lara Croft has been represented by quite a few models in the past, including Rhona Mitra, Vanessa...
[March 21, 2002, 14:26]
Luscious Lara Unleashes IRC Worm
News The promise of a luscious Lara Croft screensaver is likely to fool Internet users into unleashing a new computer worm that spreads itself exclusively through Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Lara" spreads through an Internet chat application and...
[September 5, 2001, 9:33]
A Year Ago: ECTS - Lara Sweeps Awards, Eidos Shares Soar
News Lara Croft swept the board at last night's ECTS awards dinner in London with Tomb Raider picking up four key prizes. The Eidos Interactive smash hit took the prize for Marketing Campaign of the year and PC Game of the year.
[September 8, 1998, 6:13]
ECTS: Lara Sweeps Awards, Eidos Shares Soar
News Lara Croft swept the board at last night's ECTS awards dinner in London with Tomb Raider picking up four key prizes. The Eidos Interactive smash hit took the prize for Marketing Campaign of the year and PC Game of the year.
[September 9, 1997, 16:08]
Nuggets: Lara Lifts The Lid On Graphics Power
News Lara/model (er, look-a-like) Lara Weller, will be introducing three new cards -- the Voodoo4 4500, Voodoo5 500 and Voodoo5 5500. All the cards are based on the company's VSA-100 processor, which supports the integration of one to 32 chips per...
[February 14, 2000, 8:37]
Lara Sends Eidos Sales Through The Roof
News The game was guaranteed to sell well thanks to it being the successor to the huge-selling Tomb Raider, and the massive hype generated by teenagers' pixel-based icon, Lara Croft. But Eidos told the City yesterday that sales across its range had sky...
[January 22, 1998, 10:20]
Core Moves To Defend Lara
News Fire International publishes 'cheat' software which allows Playstation and Nintendo users to win games more easily. Fire was due to launch new software for Tomb Raider III entitled TombMaster, which Core alleges infringes its Tomb Raider trademark.
[December 14, 1998, 14:29]
Box Office Hits Pirated Over Web
News Three current box office hits -- "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", "Shrek" and "Pearl Harbor" -- are among the most-pirated movies over the Web for the month of June, researchers said on Tuesday. MediaForce, a digital copyright enforcement company, said...
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
Eidos Faces Lawsuit From Columbine Parents
News Eidos, the UK company that created Lara Croft and the Final Fantasy computer game series warned on Wednesday that it was facing a £3.4bn lawsuit from the parents of the teenagers killed in the Columbine massacre of 1999.
[June 6, 2001, 16:49]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News But the only insider dealings he was really interested in were with the Lara Croft look-a-likes on the stand. Early this week, the Luncher mooched around the ECTS games trade show, at London's Olympia, blagging free beers and hogging the consoles.
[September 13, 1997, 8:00]
Eidos Shares Shoot Up
News Company secretary Charlotte Eastwood said that the main factor in the sales hike had been the mammoth success of Tomb Raider II, the game that made Lara Croft a household name. The City had Eidos up to 925p on early trading this morning, following...
[January 22, 1998, 13:07]
ECTS: Wrinklies Outstrip 20-somethings In Online Gaming
News Sadly the attraction of Lara Croft and her cyber-babe friends is lost on the older games player, with Joanna Lumley and Tom Cruise far more their cup of tea. A study commissioned by Intel has revealed that Britain's more "mature" gameplayers are...
[September 6, 1999, 11:57]
ECTS: Let's Hear It For The UK Games Industry!
News What a wonderful British export,' nobody was shouting 'Tomb Raider' or 'Lara Croft'. The UK games industry exports over £417 million worth of software making the UK "the games software capital of Europe".
[September 8, 1998, 9:17]
Hacker Targets Sophos Mouthpiece
News She represents a kind of cyber-savvy Lara Croft figure, an image backed up after a silhouetted TV interview last year showed her kick-boxing. A row has once again broken out between two of the virus world's best known characters -- Sophos senior...
[July 17, 2003, 13:05]
