Japanese Fantasy XII Release Due
Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XII will ship to retailers in Japan on March 16, 2006, for the PlayStation 2. The long-awaited role-playing game will then appear in North America later in 2006, the publisher said.
The latest installment in the 18-year-old franchise will feature groundbreaking real-time graphics that push the envelope of the PlayStation2 capabilities, as well as advanced pre-rendered movies.
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Lara Croft To Return
Bill Gardner, the new chief executive officer of game publisher Eidos, plans to resurrect the company's premier franchise this year, with Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Despite its original popularity, Lara Croft was almost fatally damaged by 2003's Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, a critical and commercial disaster that shipped a month before Paramount Pictures' Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life opened, the trade paper reported. In the ensuing fallout, Eidos closed Core Design, which had created all previous Tomb Raider games, and entrusted the franchise to Crystal Dynamics.
The trade paper also reported that a future Tomb Raider movie hasn't been ruled out.

I've seen pictures of the New Lara Croft game, looks good. Although the series started to get old from fourth onwards.

I've seen pictures of FFXII, looks almost the same as FFX.