Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Features

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Preview: Lara takes a break from gritty survivalism to shoot a giant scarab beetle with a rocket launcher.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light surprised everyone by being actually rather good when it came out back in 2010. A throwback to classic couch co-op games, it let two players careen around inside a Mayan temple, smashing priceless artefacts (aren't you meant to be an archaeologist, Lara?), shooting various monsters in the head and hoovering up a bunch of power-ups and loot....

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Preview: Upset that Rise of the Tomb Raider is a timed Xbox exclusive? This might be even better.

Goddammit does Microsoft suck, and this is from someone who doesn’t have any Sony consoles sitting next to his TV. Tomb Raider: The Gritty Reboot was an excellent game but hardly a system seller, but Microsoft still threw Square-Enix a few hundred bjillion dollars to keep sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider Rises temporarily exclusive to Xbox One so they can sell 2-3...