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Square Enix shows Xbox One exclusive Lara Croft in Rise of the Tomb Raider

Square Enix and Microsoft just showed off more of Rise of the Tomb Raider, the sequel to the critically praised 2013 series reboot of Lara Croft.

The previous game gave us a more modern, realistic, and emotional younger Lara Croft, and the sequel continues the origin story about how she became the swaggering Tomb Raider.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.