NFL Head Coach (PC, PS2, Xbox)
The football management sim gets some serious Cowher Power courtesy of EA and Bill's chin.

Tomb Raider: Legend (PSP)
The PSP port of the seventh Lara Croft adventure.

MotoGP 4 (PS2)
More motorcycle racing, but this time PS2 players get to take it online.

The Legend of Heroes 2: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch (PSP)
Bandai's 2D RPG series returns, with improved AI and (yay!) no random battles.

I always told myself I'd pick up Tomb Raider: Legend when the PSP port hit, but I'm having second thoughts. What's up, Kotaku? You snaggin' anything this week? Michael McWhertor

CNN
Lara Croft, once one of the world's hottest video game vixens, stumbled in her last quest (2003's forgettable "Angel of Darkness"), but the femme fatale regains her cool in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend."
Consider this new adventure a rebirth of the 10-year-old franchise. Now under the care of developer Crystal Dynamics, "Legend" proves there is plenty of heart and soul left in this once-coveted series.
Grade: None

Rocky Mountain News
Ten years, seven games and $28 million: That's how much gamers love Lara Croft.
But despite all of that testosterone-driven adoration, Croft's last adventure, Angel of Darkness, was such a botched game that it nearly put the heroine in the ground.
If Croft was to survive the jump to the next generation of consoles, she didn't just need a new game, she needed a metamorphosis.
Grade: C+

GameSpot
Tomb Raider: Legend follows the exploits of Lara Croft as she tries to solve the mysteries of her past. Specifically, she's investigating the death of her mother several years earlier. One thing leads to another and somehow the legend of King Arthur becomes involved, along with a magical sword that has been broken into fragments and scattered throughout the world. The story is barely coherent, but it serves its purpose in that it gives Lara an excuse to travel from one exotic locale to the next in search of these artifacts. The game takes you to places such as Ghana, Peru, Tokyo, England, and Kazakhstan, and all of the locations look great. And while Lara sticks mostly to tombs and ruins, she also spends time exploring a deserted research facility, hopping about atop skyscrapers, and shooting up bad guys in a rustic village. The variety of levels is great, although you'll end up seeing pretty much the same platforming and box-pushing puzzles wherever you go.
Score: 7.8/10

1Up
The last time Lara Croft was in a game worth playing, Final Fantasy VII had the hottest graphics ever, no one was entirely sure if Zelda would work in 3D, and only a handful of NES vets had any clue who Solid Snake was. Nine years is a long, long time in videogames — the difference between the NES's heyday and the Dreamcast's launch, to give one example — so it's pretty easy to understand why the Tomb Raider series entered the year 2006 as more of an irrelevant footnote in history than a cherished classic.
Score: 80 percent

Tomb Raider: Legend (PC, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360)
Now under the helm of Crystal Dynamics, Lara's seventh adventure promises a return to her roots.

Auto Assault Online (PC)
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Odama (Gamecube)
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Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Xbox 360)
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Major League Baseball 2K6 (PSP, Xbox 360)
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King of Fighters Neowave (Xbox)
Budget release of the extremely long running series of SNK 2D fighters.

Condemned: Criminal Origins (PC)
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I'm definitely getting Odama and will consider Condemned (If you're keeping up, no, Microsoft still hasn't sent my complimentary Xbox 360!). I'm also going to sit tight and wait for the Tomb Raider reviews to pour in. What about you? Getting anything?

We're linking you to xboxic.com, in which the author of the post immediately begins hyperventilating about America's hypocrisy over the exposure of a bare human breast. Yes, yes — hot coffee, right. Because interactive, rhythmic sex games are the same as a bare breast. Anyway, xboxic.com claims this will delay the release in the US. But Firing Squad actually bothered to call Eidos, who says that the breast is only hackable in the Euro versions of the game, which is already out. It won't delay the US version.

So a visible breast, only available to European hackers, not belonging to Lara Croft, that won't delay the release of the game. Not news, in other words. Except that it allows us to post a jpeg of a disembodied breast, eerily floating upon a muddy texture. There's worse ways to start your weekend.

Nipplegate: new Tomb Raider delayed in US [xboxic.com]

Here's hoping the Xbox 360 version will play a tad smoother.

The First 10 Minutes: Tomb Raider Legend Demo [Playsyde/Xboxyde]

Lara Croft is jiggly even when she's on my desktop. Game Set Watch pointed me to the official Tomb Raider: Legend website where you can download a top heavy, bouncy croft to your desktop. Once you load the adventurer onto your screen she spends a lot of time doing stretches, bouncing in place and throwing ropes around to climb them. The graphics are pretty cool, but she's pretty repetitive.

Desktop Lara [Official Site]

A preview of Tomb Raider: Legend is up at the the Official Xbox 360 Magazine UK site. From the preview (these always gush, though, don't they?) it sounds like Legend is turning out to be a solid title from Eidos thus far. The franchise needs it, too. After the near-death experience that was Angel of Darkness, maybe, in the words of Wilco, all the the Tomb Raider series needed was "a shot in the arm."

Tomb Raider: Legend [Official Xbox 360]