So you’re 23 years old, from Croydon (England), and you’re a former Great Britain gymnast now working as a receptionist. The logical next career move for such an eclectic background?
Why, Lara Croft of course.
The next non-virtual “face” of everyone’s favourite video game heroine has been selected in the form of Alison Carroll. She’s a bit of a departure from prior picks, who tended to stick in the “I’m a moooodel” mold (Karima Abebibe , Nell McAndrews). Side tidbit on McAndrew: she was “removed”/ fired as from her role as Croft after posing nude for Playboy in 1999.
I think it’s a …read more

The new teaser trailer for Tomb Raider Underworld is out and about on the intarwebs, and I naturally ran right over to watch it, thinking that it would be the most marvelous thing since sliced bread. Here it is, for you to make your own judgment call:

What’d you think? Complete with phallic octopii tentacles, booty-baring bathing suits, and claims of a totally new gaming experience, though the teaser trailer didn’t really show you much beyond the typical Lara Croft moves, “epic” environments all over the world (you mean like the other Croft chronicles?), world-endangering artifacts (really? …read more