Video game icons are sort of like the child stars of the video game world: strikingly popular, exploited, and overworked for usually a short period of time (three, maybe five years), and then living on through the power of nostalgia and sporadic attempts at career resucitation.

I think it’s safe to say we can finally list Lara Croft along with the Pac-Mans, Donkey Kongs, Sonics, and Raidens of our video game past…although it seems like the once-mighty Eidos doesn’t want to admit it just yet.

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