{"id":754069,"date":"2026-08-30T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754069\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:56:08","slug":"gamescom-2026-classic-remakes-and-new-worlds-at-gamings-biggest-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754069\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamescom 2026: Classic remakes and new worlds at gaming&#8217;s biggest showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lara Croft has been exploring ancient ruins and culling the local wildlife for nearly 30 years now (the original Tomb Raider came out in 1996). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legacy of Atlantis revisits Lara&#8217;s original adventure, including her journey through Peru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s not the first time the classic game has been remade, but Jeff Adams, experience director at co-developers Crystal Dynamics, told me reimagining it was still a &#8220;very delicate formula&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have to be very intentful with where you make modifications, but you do so in the attempt to kind of bring it into a modern gameplay space.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As for why after 30 years people still want to play as the twin-pistoled adventurer, Micha\u0142 Kuk, Creative Director at Flying Wild Hog, said it was not just about her athletic ability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s also about the attitude, the energy, the self-confidence,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lara Croft has been exploring ancient ruins and culling the local wildlife for nearly 30 years now (the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}