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Baziel • 2 January

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2024 New Year Update & 2023 Round Up

First off, apologies for the lack of updates this year. My partner ended up getting a new job in the gaming industry and it’s been epic and gruelling and I can’t wait to see what comes out of it, but for now it has meant that I've needed to pick up the slack on our projects a bit so I’m trying to do a lot of stuff for the Raina Audron channel on top of my previous commitments. Unfortunately that means I’m having less time for other things and keeping updates going is proving to be an even bigger challenge than normal.

Anyway here’s what’s been going on this year:

As part of the Raina Audron channel I’ve been posting several Youtube videos on the series. Roughly we’re beginning to split into three threads for videos: ‘Arcane Tomes’ for lore details and explanations, ‘Developer Chronicles’ for behind the scenes and game details and ‘Nosgoth News Network’ for real world news and updates related to LoK. This year The Arcane Tomes has covered Moebius’s People’s Army, The New Sarafan, The Vampire Hunters of the Soul Reaver era and the Silenced Cathedral. Developer Chronicles has a video on the links between Tomb Raider and Legacy of Kain and a detailed deep dive expose on the development of Dead Sun. Where necessary these videos have been added to appropriate articles on the wiki.

Pleasingly there’s also finally starting to be enough news to make a current events series semi-viable so Nosgoth News Network had two updates in June covering various updates and Embracer news, One in July covering the return of Gex and one in September covering the Tomb Raider remastered announcement and SR1’s brief (failed) return to Gog.

To briefly summarise, most of the news this year revolved around the new Embracer/Crystal Dynamics stewardship of the franchise and what it means moving forward. Unfortunately the news for Embracer hasn’t been great. They were responsible for a couple of big flops and then news broke that a major investment deal had fallen through leaving them with a massive funding gap. Since then there have been a number of job cuts across the board as Embracer works out how to steady the ship. It’s unclear how this will change things going forward, but word is they may be trying to focus on their marquee names - which may or may not include LoK. Of course our thoughts go out to all those in the industry who were affected by this or have lost jobs.

There have also been some fan led moves on getting more stable versions of the games running. Alongside Verok’s patch fo…

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