Tomb Raider: The Myth of El Hawa
(featuring Jonell Elliott as Lara Croft)
The untold events between Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation and The Angel of Darkness, finally brought to light by the original writer, Murti Schofield, in this animated film.
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Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness Launch Event and Press Material DVD
A DVD that was distributed by Eidos / Core Design to various press outlets for the launch of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.
Fighting Force 3 Concept Arts
In the early 2000s, Core Design embarked on a thrilling journey to develop Fighting Force 3, a game for PlayStation 2, XBOX, and possibly the GameCube. The project, unfortunately, was […]
Interview: Jeremy Smith, Adrian Smith, Core Design (PrimaGames, 2000)
Lara has many technical fathers, but only one commercial godfather. Besides the game creators Andy Green, Robert Toone, Terry Lloyd, and Chris Shrigley, Jeremy Smith was the single sales and marketing professional in the founding team of Core Design in 1988. His company developed in ten years from a small, ambitious programming studio to become a worldwide entertainment business.
Salford Mayor Citizen Award
I received a Salford Mayor Citizen Award for my role in saving Tomb Raider videogame series and my volunteer work in assisting Ukrainian refugees. I am very grateful for this! Especially since I was nominated by Peter Connelly, the composer for Tomb Raider games.
Making Of: Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (Edge Magazine 2011)
The stress fractures were clear a long time before Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness was released. In May 2002 at the E3 conference in LA, Eidos showcased ‘playable’ levels of the game which were little more than short animation demos. For a game due out ‘imminently’, it appeared woefully incomplete.
Maintenance
There’s an ongoing maintenance on pages for tomb Raider 4, 5 and The Angel of Darkness. Sorry for any inconvenience. If you’re a modder and you need urgent access to […]
Tomb Raider: Restoration Project version 1.3.2 is out
New 1.3.2 version of Reborninshadow’s Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness Restoration Project is now available for download! Lots of new fixes including a newly added “Lara Croft arrested for […]
Microsoft’s Strategic Shift: Prioritising Cloud Over Console Sales
In a recent internal email exchange between Xbox chief Phil Spencer and Xbox CFO Tim Stuart, it has been revealed that Microsoft intentionally sacrificed Xbox Series X/S sales growth to […]
Tomb of Ash at Glance
Based in Manchester, UK, Tomb of Ash is an award-winning videogames blog, Official Tomb Raider Fansite outlet and Resident Evil Ambassador.
Our associates and partners are Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix, Replay Events, Microsoft and many others!
Our Awards and Achievements
My Community Management efforts for Tomb Raider: The Dark Angel Symphony got us a Bronze Digital Communications Award.
Digital Communication Awards DCACommunity Manager
The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals awarded us with the platinum dotCOMM award for community management for our work on the Tomb Raider: The Dark Angel Symphony music album.
PLATINUM dotCOMM awardCommunity Manager
Each year Manchester Prestige Awards invite the general public as well as readers of the Corporate LiveWire and LTG publications to put forward companies, products, services and individuals who they feel are deserving of recognition. This year Tomb of Ash was named the Entertainment Media Blog of the Year!
Manchester Prestige AwardsEntertainment Media Blog of the Year
Our Lara’s Diary: Baba Yaga video is nominated for the Royal Television Society Award!
Royal Television Society AwardNational Nomination
We are a shortlisted finalist for the Digital & Tech Category in the UK Blog Awards 2018!
UK Blog Awards 2018Shortlisted Finalist for the Digital & Tech Category
We are absolutely delighted and honored to be featured in this magazine and we are extremely proud to say that we helped to make this special 20 years of Tomb Raider article happen.
``Lara's Biggest Fan``Special Feature in Retro Gamer Magazine
We’ ve once again been approached by Future plc to help them with their special 200 issue of GamesTM Magazine. They wanted to explore the original Tomb Raider in a special feature article. We also got a mention 😉
Lara's SuperfanSpecial Feature in GamesTM Magazine
We are absolutely proud to be featured in this book. They reprinted Retro Gamer Magazine article in The PlayStation book!
This Tomb Raider 20 Anniversary article features a number of interviews with Core Design, Toby Gard, Shelley Blond, yours truly and the others.
Lara's Biggest FanSpecial Feature in PlayStation Book
Baba Yaga, a short animated video that I created, got a community award from Crystal Dynamics:
“An exceptional video project, that celebrated Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, and the community”Best Video Project AwardCrystal Dynamics
We are delighted that Tomb Raider 20th Anniversary Celebrations at PLAY Expo, which we helped to co-organise, got a community award from Crystal Dynamics:
“An exceptional live event, that brought the gamers together in-person and online”Best Live EventCrystal Dynamics
Liverpool John Moores University’s World of Work career centre published a story about Tomb of Ash and our trip to E3. LJMU’s World of Work Programme is a globally unique initiative which aims to make graduates most valued by employers.
Special FeatureLiverpool John Moores University
British Council published a story about our admin in their University Alliance book.
Special FeatureBritish Council's University Alliance
