Mobile success for Tomb Raider

Eidos is celebrating twin successes for its mobile adaptations of the Tomb Raider franchise, as Lara Croft's handheld adventures top both the N-Gage software chart and the Vodafone live! games chart.

Although the N-Gage version of the game was displaced from the top spot of the N-Gage chart after the first week on sale, this is probably the less interesting of the two achievements anyway, since the installed base of the N-Gage remains extremely low.

The more widely available mobile version of Tomb Raider, namely Tomb Raider: The Osiris Codex, is rather more successful - with the top spot in the Vodafone live! chart suggesting that the game is selling very strongly. Eidos plans to release two further mobile Tomb Raider titles which follow on from The Osiris Codex over the coming months.

"This is great news," enthused Eidos' European managing director, Jonathan Kemp, "and testament to the quality of both games and the continued mass appeal of the Tomb Raider brand."