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Tomb Raider's Lara Croft almost looked very different in Japan

The game's publisher wanted an anime-style redesign, and it's freaking people out.

Creative Bloq

Lara Croft's design could've gone full FF7/Street Fighter in Japan to appeal to audiences in the mid-'90s, says co-creator, but 'All that was changed was the manuals & guide'

Looking at these renders, I'm pretty certain they made the right choice.

PC Gamer

Tomb Raider's Japanese publisher wanted to give Lara Croft a Crash Bandicoot-style redesign for the region, but her co-creator "really didn't want to alter" her, even after a whole new model was created

"Victor wanted us to change in-game Lara to appeal more to a Japanese audience"

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Following Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis reveal, series co-creator says he'd prefer "exploring new lost worlds" over more remakes

"Dinosaurs will always be cool though…"

GamesRadar

Real America’s Voice: How a tiny pro-Trump news network founded by a convicted criminal got so close to the president

The channel covers Trump the president while doing business with a Trump company.

Fortune

32 Old Hollywood Movies You Should Rewatch

They're considered classics for a reason.

Marie Claire

Ticket touts who ‘fleeced’ Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga fans jailed

Firm run by the ‘Ticket Queen’ sold tickets worth more than £6.5m on sites including Viagogo and StubHub

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Jobs boost for Lanarkshire as Volvo factory looks to drive up numbers

The company designs and builds Rokbak articulated haulers at the Motherwell site

Daily Record

Volvo Haulers seeks 100 new staff at Motherwell base

Both industrial and office-based roles required, as demand rises following a rebrand in September 2021

Insider UK

As Trump pleads not guilty, Liz Cheney warns: ‘We have a continued assault on the rule of law in this country’

Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney received the 2023 Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government — named after the Illinois senator and corruption fighter — in a ceremony hosted by the University of Illinois system.

Chicago Sun-Times

PL could give EFL bigger share and still be richest league says Rotherham chief

Paul Douglas, the Championship club’s CEO, argues the Premier League could help the lower divisions and remain the ‘strongest division in Europe’.

The Independent UK

The on-farm sexual revolution is getting closer to home

More and more Australian farmers are adopting a process that allows them to choose the gender of their livestock. Dairy, beef and sheep farmers are using semen that has been sorted into male and female.

ABC News

Diphtheria cases have been reported in Australia for the first time this century. What is it and who is at risk?

Experts believe the two infections in children in northern NSW, which can cause nerve damage and life-threatening heart failure, developed locally

The Guardian - AU

Diphtheria identified in two children in northern New South Wales, one child in ICU

Two unvaccinated children have contracted diphtheria of the throat, the first cases of the life-threatening but preventable disease last seen in NSW in the early 1990s.

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Dogs trained to sniff out COVID in schools are getting a lot of love for their efforts

A school in southeastern Massachusetts latches onto a novel program that uses canines to sniff out COVID on surfaces. The idea is to help protect kids from the virus and keep the school open.

ABC News

Increase in northern NSW COVID cases following increased tourism, Byron Bay festival activity

The region hosted more than 100,000 people at Bluesfest in Byron Bay over the weekend, but the local health boss says the 50 per cent increase in cases is probably due to more movement generally.

ABC News

Beds blocked and patients 'dumbfounded' as surgeries delayed by floods, pandemic

A spike in hospital admissions and patients with nowhere to turn during the floods has caused delays for surgeries on the north coast. Now doctors are worried about a difficult winter to come.

Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: Emily Taft Douglas goes to bat for bookworms

The Chicago-born politician, who died Jan. 24, 1994, served just two years in the U.S. House of Representatives, but she focused on bringing greater access to libraries in her short tenure.

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