New Tomb Raider remake rumored for Game Awards reveal, even though Anniversary already exists

According to the Tomb Raider fan account Society of Raiders on X, a “new remake of Tomb Raider (1996) is rumored to be announced at The Game Awards on December 11”. This would be the second remake of Lara Croft’s 1996 PS1 debut, following in the footsteps of 2007’s Anniversary for PS2 and PS3.

❗️For clarification: our sources are anonymous, which is why we can’t link to a specific tweet or article. Because of this, we’re labeling the information as a rumor, not a confirmation.

— Society of Raiders (@RaidersSociety) December 6, 2025

It’s hard to gauge how reliable these rumors are, as the Society of Raiders’ “sources are anonymous”. Although it is a Tomb Raider fan account that reports on news, it is not affiliated with starting accurate or fake leaks and rumors.

If the rumor is true, this would be the second Tomb Raider remake. The 1996 classic was developed by Core Design, Lara Croft’s original creators, who shut down in 2006. Eidos Interactive was the parent company of Core Design, and Eidos transferred the Tomb Raider franchise to Crystal Dynamics after the abysmal reception of Lara Croft’s first PS2 game, Angel of Darkness, in 2003.

Crystal Dynamics’ first Tomb Raider game was Legend in 2006, followed by Tomb Raider Anniversary in 2007. Anniversary is a complete remake of Lara Croft’s PS1 debut, with big changes to the level design as well as slight changes to the story. It also has an overwhelming amount of poorly-aged quick-time events.

Tomb Raider Anniversary joined PS Plus Premium in November 2025 and is available to buy from the PSN store for $20. In 2024, on Lara Croft’s canonical birthday, February 14, Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered was also released, developed by Aspyr. This is a faithful remaster of the 1996 classic bundled with Tomb Raider 2 and 3, featuring massively improved textures plus additional features such as photo mode and modern controls.

Tomb Raider could be at The Game Awards 2025

Speaking on the Triple Click podcast episode 283 about potential reveals at this year’s The Game Awards, Jason Schreier says, “We could see Tomb Raider, which has been in development for a while now and is probably ripe to be shown off”. Schreier is a reliable insider at Bloomberg, famous for video games industry expos such as the infamous crunch culture at Rockstar for Red Dead Redemption 2.

Crystal Dynamics announced they was developing a new Tomb Raider back in 2022. It is using Unreal Engine 5 rather than Crystal Dynamics’ in-house Foundation graphics engine, used for 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider and 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Another X account named V Scooper is reporting about a new Tomb Raider open-world game set in India starring Lara Croft in her “prime”. Unlike the Society of Raiders, this account has a thread of verified leaks, but they are focused on leaking movies and television series. Tomb Raider is the only video game they have reported on, so V Scooper’s reliability is also difficult to gauge.

Crystal Dynamics is attempting to cement a new “unified” timeline that combines the classic PS1 games, the Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld trilogy, and the recent Survivor trilogy.

Netflix’s The Legend of Lara Croft Season 2 anime premieres on December 11, the same day as The Game Awards. The anime ends with Season 2, and Tasha Huo, the series’ showrunner, says it is the “first steps toward unifying the Tomb Raider timelines… leading up to the first steps of that first Tomb Raider game”.

It’s also recently been announced that future Tomb Raider games will share the same universe as the live-action Amazon Prime series starring Sophie Turner, famous for playing Game of Thrones’ Sansa Stark, as Miss Croft.