There's a new Tomb Raider game launching next year

It's been two years since Lara Croft's last video game outing - developer Crystal Dynamics' grim trilogy capper Shadow of the Tomb Raider - and now, finally, Square Enix is teasing Lara's long-overdue return in the form of next year's Tomb Raider Reloaded. And now this is the part where you immediately temper your expectations, as you learn its a free-to-play mobile game.

Square shared the news of Tomb Raider Reloaded on Twitter, but did stop short of revealing much in the way of details regarding its new "action arcade" project, aside from it being the work of developer Emerald City Games (most recently responsible for free-to-play effort G.I. Joe: War on Cobra) and Square Enix's London mobile team.

Those absolutely desperate for additional information, however, do have the option of dissecting the 40-second long teaser trailer accompanying the announcement, which offers a dramatic slo-mo pan across some menacingly posed foe - including a wolf, rock monster, giant spider, and T. rex - before settling on Lara herself, guns a-blazing.

It really doesn't shed much additional light on Lara's latest adventure from a gameplay perspective, but we do get a good look at its chosen art style - which I'm going to call "potentially divisive", and leave it at that.

Next year, of course, marks the Tomb Raider series' 25th anniversary - Lara's debut outing, developed by British studio Core Design, released back in 1996 - so hopefully today's Tomb Raider Reloaded news is only the start of Square Enix's birthday celebrations for one of video gaming's most iconic characters. Fingers crossed.