Geoff Keighley posted a tweet on Dec 8, 2025 saying “Lara Croft returns at #TheGameAwards” and pointing viewers to the show after the Tomb Raider team used The Game Awards Vote in Fortnite map portal to surface the tease.
The official Tomb Raider account followed with a short message, “Did you miss her? She missed you,” and both posts referenced the Game Awards date of Dec 11, 2025. The wording stopped short of saying “new game,” so the tease left room for multiple possibilities.
Lara Croft returns at #TheGameAwards!
As just revealed in our The Game Awards Vote in Fortnite map portal, tune in Thursday night for a look at the future of one of gaming's most iconic franchises @tombraider
This is one you won't want to miss. pic.twitter.com/TSbWkyhAbI
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 8, 2025
One option is a traditional video game reveal. Crystal Dynamics previously announced a new Tomb Raider project back in 2022 built in Unreal Engine 5 but has not shared a title or release window since that first reveal. If the studio has been quietly building a trailer, The Game Awards would be a logical place to show it.
Another plausible outcome is promotion tied to the Prime Video live-action Tomb Raider series starring Sophie Turner, which reportedly begins filming in January 2026. The Game Awards has spotlighted cross-media projects before, and the show will stream on Prime Video alongside Twitch on Dec 11, 2025. Console PC Gaming covered that streaming expansion in more detail in our report on The Game Awards streaming on Prime Video.
Fans have already been hunting for clues around Keighley’s teasers. The same producer posted cryptic geographic clues in early December that led social sleuths to a desert installation, and our earlier coverage tracked that activity and the resulting theories about other reveals at the show. See our writeup on Keighley’s Mojave Desert clue for the background.
For now, the clearest facts are simple: Keighley and the Tomb Raider account signaled Lara Croft will appear during The Game Awards broadcast on Dec 11, 2025, via the Fortnite Vote portal, and the announcement could be either a new game entry or a push for the upcoming Prime Video adaptation.
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