Square Enix has announced that a new Tomb Raider game is in the works, and that it will be revealed in a “major event” set to take place sometime in 2018. And that is literally all I can tell you about it.
I’m not kidding.
A message to our fans! pic.twitter.com/HlDYsUtZMs
— Tomb Raider (@tombraider) December 7, 2017
Announcements of announcements aren’t my favorite thing in the world, especially when they’re for not-exactly-a-surprise news that a popular videogame series is getting a another sequel. I also find it amusing that a message telling fans that they’ll have to wait ends with, “we simply can’t wait.”
And yet, there’s something odd about it—something in the wording that makes me think that maybe there’s more going on here than meets the eye. What if… What if there’s a secret hidden in the message? What if the first letter of the first word in each sentence combined to form a word?
Hello!
That little Easter egg still doesn’t tell us anything new about the game, but it does appear to confirm the Shadow of the Tomb Raider title that leaked in October of last year, a rumor that solidified (although it remained unconfirmed) this past June. So at least we’re not going away completely empty-handed.
(And I cannot tell a lie: Rachel Weber of Gamesradar gets credit for noticing the Shadow secret—although I’m sure I would’ve figured it out on my own eventually.)