The day we arrived was extremely rainy, but it didn’t stop gamers to attend Reboot InfoGamer. From young children to senior citizens, the venue was packed. The VR stands were the most popular ones and queues required a lot of patience.

As true Tomb Raider fans, our first mission was to find any Tomb Raider stands. Last year one of the biggest stands (if not the biggest one) was for Rise of the Tomb Raider, promoted by Microsoft. This year it was Sony’s turn to promote ROTTR, but being a year old game it had a more modest stand. You could experience ROTTR on PS4 in all of its 4K glory.  

We managed to try out

John Wick Chronicles: An Eye for an Eye VR and being my first VR, it blew my mind. The controls were smooth and the gameplay was fun. You can move around in the game (at the beginning you’re required to walk in a lift) and you can even crouch/crouch walk to avoid getting hit or hide behind barriers. Along with the John Wick Chronicles VR, there was another extremely popular VR game made by the Croteam, the Serious Sam VR. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to try it out, but judging from the comments, it kicked ass in the usual Serious Sam way. As watching someone play VR can be quite dull, the Croteam made the experience enjoyable for everyone as they projected the entire area around the player with greenscreen on a huge screen so everyone in the audience could see what the player was seeing and even more.  

We have also tried out few indie games which we are sure will do well in the future.  

After that, we headed over to the retro part of the Expo in hope to find some classic Tomb Raider games, but sadly there were none. It was still great to play classics such as Super Mario on the NES and Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Megadrive, but this was a real missed opportunity for celebrating Tomb Raider’s 20th anniversary. We hope that in the following years they will bring Tomb Raider to the retro area of the Reboot InfoGamer.

Overall Reboot InfoGamer is a great gaming Expo with few minor issues due to it being relatively new and still catching up with big Expos such as EGX, Gamescom,

Paris Games Week, etc.  

You can find more photos from the event HERE

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Reboot infoGamer 2016 is the fifth annual edition of the rapidly expanding games show in Croatia, that is once again breaking records as one of the truly biggest in Europe. The six-day show will take place at the Zagreb Fair convention grounds at even bigger expo area with a focus on the newest and upcoming video games, hardware, gaming merchandise, eSports and analogue games.

The event will take place from November 8th – November 13th

For more info visit:  http://www.rebootinfogamer.hr/en/

You can find the official facebook event here.

Last year Microsoft presented Rise of the Tomb Raider at Reboot infoGamer and it was one of the the biggest stands there. Check it out: https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/post/133495286305/my-co-admin-terenete-went-to-reboot-infogamer-expo

Hope to see you there!

Tina aka Terenete

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Loved Baba Yaga DLC for the Rise of the Tomb Raider? Marina Brown from AllDay complied an awesome list of ten Slavic mythological and folklore creatures!

Existing alongside Egyptian and Greek paganism, pre-Christian Slavic deities remain among the most mysterious ancient beliefs in history. Passed down for generations before the first written documentation, these creatures of folklore evolved completely apart from Western influence.

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“As some eagle-eyed Rise of the Tomb Raider players have discovered, two placeholder movies were accidentally included in the latest patch. This content was not meant to be released, but now that it is we wanted to respond to the questions we’ve received as a result. The movies are part of a DLC expansion we’re exploring for Rise of the Tomb Raider. Our fans continue to enjoy Rise of the Tomb Raider and its DLC, including Cold Darkness Awakened which released on Tuesday, and we receive many requests for additional story content. We’re always listening to feedback from our fans; especially this year as we celebrate 20 years of the iconic Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider franchise together.”

Video  credit – 

Gian Carlo at Tomb Raider Forums

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A merchant had a daughter, who was known as Vasilisa the Beautiful. When the girl was eight years old, her mother died. On her deathbed, she gave Vasilisa a tiny wooden doll with instructions to give it a little to eat and a little to drink if she were in need, and then it would help her. As soon as her mother died, Vasilisa gave it a little to drink and a little to eat, and it comforted her.After a time, her father remarried; the new wife was a woman with two daughters. Vasilisa’s stepmother was very cruel to her, but with the help of the doll, she was able to perform all the tasks imposed on her. When young men came wooing, the stepmother rejected them all because it was not proper for the younger to marry before the older, and none of the suitors wished to marry Vasilisa’s stepsisters.One day the merchant had to embark on a journey. His wife sold the house and moved them all to a gloomy hut by the forest. One day she gave each of the girls a task and put out all the fires except a single candle. Her older daughter then put out the candle, whereupon they sent Vasilisa to fetch light from Baba Yaga’s hut.

Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin

Also check out our Lara’s Diary Project where Lara studies the myth of Baba Yaga in preparation for her upcoming adventure; the Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC – Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch.

Starring the original Lara Croft voice actress Shelley Blond [Tomb Raider (1996), Peep Show]

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