It’s been a good day so far, and when I heard this year’s stellar Tomb Raider reboot was getting a sequel – I jumped up and did a little dance, no joke.

This guy will not be dancing anytime soon

Square Enix CEO, Phil Rogers, mentioned yesterday in the SE blog that the Next-Gen Tomb Raider sequel is “well into development”. The Official Tomb Raider Blog reported that Head of Product Development and Studios, Darrell Gallagher, had this to say:

Hi – you may have read today that a next-generation sequel to Tomb Raider is in the works. We’re very excited to confirm that the team has started working on telling the next chapter in Lara’s tale. It’s still early days, so I’m afraid I can’t provide any further details for now save my assurance that we’re not resting on our laurels and acclaim from Tomb Raider’s recent successes, but working hard to raise the bar even higher and re-affirm the faith you’ve shown.

We’ll likely be hearing and seeing more from Crystal Dynamics as the months roll on, and it’ll be interesting which direction they take the coming sequel. After the grim and gritty reboot, it’s unlikely that we’ll see Lara driving boats around sunny Venice like in TR II (Developer: Core Design), and the gorgeously bright and tropical settings of Legend is probably out, too. Whatever and where ever it is, let’s hope Crystal Dynamics takes everything from the reboot and just slightly improves upon it – no need to go crazy overhauling a great product for the sequel.

We’ll keep you posted as the details begin to come out.