We’d already brought you news about Tomb Raider: Re\Visioned the awesome new animated shorts being made by GameTap for their GameTap TV service. And now, to sweeten the pot, we bring you the latest episode to hit the intertubes! Angel Spit Pt. 2 takes off from the previous episode, which saw Lara head over to Antarctica in search of a mysterious substance that is claimed to have the property to cure any disease. Download the episode in Flash Video format right here and get your freak on with the luscious Lady Lara Croft, mysterious subterranean temples and lots of gooey Xenomorph-ey alien creatures. Check back tomorrow for Episode 07 - Lara Croft: Legacy, where the bombshell billionaire takes on an army of half-man / half-beast creatures as she tries to recover a scepter from an ancient monastery.

Download links for Angel Spit, Pt. 2 and previous episodes after the jump.

Update: As promised, we have Ep. 10 - A Complicated Woman right here for your download pleasure. Click here for more details and to download the video.

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Remember GameTap’s homage to Lara Croft? Well, they decided to go all out as of yesterday and launched Re\Visioned, the new animated series that airs for free on GameTap’s Tomb Raider site at http://www.gametap.com/tombraider

With new episodes airing weekly starting today through August 23rd, the first season of Re\Visioned will feature 10 episodes that focus on some of Lara’s lesser known adventures. Voicing Lara Croft throughout the season will be Academy Award nominated actress Minnie Driver, as Jim Lee, Warren Ellis, Peter Chung, Brian Pulido, Gail Simone, Michael Stackpole, Ivan Reis, Cully Hamner, Christos N. Gage, Louie Del Carmen, David Alvarez, and Six Point Harness get to work on creating these awesome episodes.

“Re\Visioned is a chance for us to show fans another side of their favorite gaming characters as seen through the eyes of today’s top writers and artists,” says Ricardo Sanchez, GameTap’s vice president of content and creative director. “We’re very excited about this series and see it as a great representation of the innovative content available at GameTap beyond our immense catalog of video games on-demand.”

Awesome! Head on over to the site to watch Episode 01 - Keys to the Kingdom, directed by Aeon Flux/Matriculated director Peter Chung.

UPDATE: Click the jump to watch the video.

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… and how to tell if you are one of them!

Here’s the simple 5 Step test.
5 – You buy Tomb Raider because you just heard that Tomb Raider Legend has a Hot Coffee mod available for download on Xbox Live!
On an added note, read this.

And get the patch from here.

4 – You think John Leguizamo makes a cool “Luigi”

3 – You heard about Metal Gear Solid and decided to invest in an Ageia PhysX board. Just to see how Solid and Liquid Snake will move.

2 – You just heard about the new Bodyguard game for the Wii. Featuring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, of course!

1 – Truth is stranger than fiction. You go to a gaming expo and check out fucking PINBALL on the latest Dual Cores available.

So did you pass the test?

The Boob is back! And it’s younger, firmer and more supple than before. Now, now, before you start complaining to the women in our lives about our debauchery, we mean Lara Croft, swear! After delivering a power-packed punch to adventure gaming and rescuing the almost-dead Tomb Raider franchise from the gutter with Legend, Crystal Dynamics has finally put a date on when we can expect to play with lil’ Lara again.

Continuing from Legend’s cliffhanger ending, the Anniversary Edition retells the story of the first Tomb Raider, except that this time, the story is more deeply involved with the plot that was unveiled in Legend. Seeking to understand her future and her father’s legacy, Lara heads back to the past to search for answers to questions that Legend raised. As we’ve already been told, the game will feature a revamped Legend engine and will not be set exactly the way the original was, even though most enemies and puzzles will find their place in the remake.

The much younger Lara, minus her friendly companions and her trusty maghook, will make her way through Incan ruins and the sunken Atlantis, battling humans, wolves, bats, bears and even velociraptors and a T-Rex to get to the bottom of this mystery. Anniversary is exclusive to the PC, the PS2 and the PSP, (WHY! I just got an Xbox 360!) with the PC and the PlayStation 2 versions enjoying a June 5 release date, even as the PSP version gets pushed back yet again. We just hope Anniversary does a much better job with the Tomb Raider puzzle elements as well as enjoying a decent run on the PSP, which is something Legend screwed up on big time! We will have an extended preview of the game as well as our experiences on using the camera to look down her blouse soon enough. Hit the preview image on top to get a bigger picture of the luscious Karima Adebibe…