Tomb Raider Trio

Tomb Raider Trio is a group of three [known as crushter, knutroald & MUN33B] who develop and run sites revolving around the popular Tomb Raider series. Some of the websites have been finished and some are not quite there. Here are a list of their sites and services:

- Croft Manor - Winston's Diaries - RaiderNet - RaiderCast - Croft Manor Forums - Ice TR Trio Browser

History

TR Trio 1st launched with Croft Manor and then the Croft Manor forums back in May 2007. Started of by MUN33B, it became a rapid success with the help of, knutroald and crushter who were then added onto the team and that officially became TR Trio. Later they decided to change software and get a proper host for the forum. Crushter founded the new and improved CMF using SMF as the software. A month or so later, they decided to change to another software, MyBB and secured the http://www.croftmanor.net domain for the forums. They later closed the Croft Manor site and announced RaiderNet(Founded and run by Knutroald), RaiderCast, Winston's Dairies, Tomb Raider Aquarium & RaiderMag. Due to pressure to complete their sites, TR Trio decided to cancel Tomb Raider Aquarium and RaiderMag. TR: Aquarium was left to R.I.P. and the RaiderMag Logo & Name were given to rivals 'Croft Generation'. Later in Novemember it was decided by TR Trio that the Croft Manor site would re-open with a big revamp and much more on the croftmanor.net domain. Now TR Trio has launched many of their sites and has become a recognized fan-team of the Tomb Raider series.

Future

No-one knows quite what TR-Trio are up-to next. There is a lot of speculationabout what the Trio are going to do next, but only they know what is in store.

Croft Manor

Croft Manor is a site for all the latest media and news for the Tomb Raider series. It is currently not fully finished, but soon will be. It is being worked on and should be ready in a few months. It also gives a lot of interesting info on Croft Manor, Winston and various different things that you can do in the different manors throughout the series. The site is run by crushter.

Croft Manor also hosts the TR - Trio's discussion board, Croft Manor Forums. Croft Manor Forums, or also known as CMF is the place to go for the latest news on TR - trio, discussions on the Tomb Raider series, discussion on the latest TR media releases and just a general place to chat and share your feelings with others.

Winston's Diaries

Winston's Diaries is a blog run single handedly by MUN33B. Each entry is a fan fiction of what Winston's day/week was like and what he gets up to. One new entry a week is put up and other Tomb Raider fan fiction writers may contribute to the blog freely.

RaiderNet

RaiderNet is a site dedicated to Fan Tomb Raider content but also provides Tomb Raider news, etc. It is run by knutroald and is currently completed with various updates when needed. It has exclusive media, and movies, comics, etc.

RaiderCast

RaiderCast ; the one and only tomb raider podcast, with packed-to-the-max episodes featuring exclusive interviews, guests, reviews, comments from the fans and so much more. It's RaiderNet's portable talkshow dedicated to anyone who loves Tomb Raider. Every episode can be downloaded from the RaiderCast site and put on your favorite mp3 player, so you can bring RaiderCast with you wherever you go! RaiderCast is by far one of the best parts of RaiderNet and the Tomb Raider Trio. Stay tuned for more Tomb Raider, as the site gets its redesign and opens for business late 2007/early 2008.

Ice - TR Trio Browser

Ice, created by Kewlkyle64 (a member of Croft Manor Forums), is a program used to browse the the pages of the TR Trio sites. With a menu bar at top, switching between pages is a breeze. Ice has not been given a release date yet.

Kewlkyle64 plans to give it a skin before release.

Speculation

Speculation has risen since the owner of CroftCodex renouncing her position. TR Trio is said to acquire the new position competing against loads of other interested people. Many people are also saying TR Trio will make RaiderCast exclusive to a bigger Tomb Raider site. TR Trio has not confirmed any of these rumors. They are also said to be in talks with a professional on reviving RaiderMag but this may be unlikely since they no longer own the name or logo.

Cancelled Sites

These sites were cancelled by TR Trio:

Tomb raider: Aquarium - A site for fans to upload artwork, fan work, fan trailers, etc.

RaiderMag - An online, free Tomb Raider fan mag.

No reasons were specified for the cancelation but only 'to get their sites out in time and focus on managing their time efficiently'.

There were rumours that TR: Aquarium was to return, but TR-Trio confirmed that this was not true.