Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered brings the last three Core Design games to modern hardware, and to pay homage to the developer who started it all in 1996, Aspyr hid a little Easter egg on the new Chronicles main menu.
As pointed out by u/MSPTurbo on the series' subreddit, you can see a grave in the background marked "Core Design 1998 - 2006", just behind Lara Croft's parents. Wait long enough, and the main menu will even cut to a close-up.
Core Design, the Derby-based studio founded by several former Gremlin Graphics devs, began work on Tomb Raider in 1994. When it released two years later, it was a huge hit both critically and commercially, selling over seven million copies. This ambitious, globe-trotting affair inspired by Indiana Jones, in which a British heroine fends off dinosaurs and even Atlantean monsters, helped put Core Design and publisher Eidos Interactive on the map.
Unsurprisingly then, five sequels were released in just seven years. But this ambition, coupled with the advent of the next generation of consoles, proved too much for one studio to bear. And so, Core Design was split in two. One team, comprised of series veterans, worked...
