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November 05, 2006 - January 24, 2007
1/24/07 - Latest News
Building Middle-Earth: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Online
Xoanon @ 9:17 pm EST
In 1955, shortly after “The Lord of the Rings” was published, J. R. R. Tolkien began to worry his creation had become a “vast game” for some readers. This was not good, he wrote, even “for me, who find that kind of thing only too fatally attractive.” Now, Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” and the imaginary setting he painstakingly built, Middle-earth, has become that “vast game.” Tomorrow in Las Vegas, Turbine Inc. of Westwood, Mass., is to announce an April 24 release date for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, the year’s most anticipated massively multiplayer online game, or M.M.O. A digital Middle-earth will open its gates to thousands of virtual characters embarking on quests, plumbing subterranean realms and slaughtering plenty of goblins and trolls. [More]
1/13/07 - Latest News
PRESS RELEASE: European Beta programme and Stress Test confirmed for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™
Xoanon @ 11:14 am EST
The European Beta programme for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar will officially go live this coming weekend, Codemasters Online Gaming and Turbine announced today. The programme will commence with the first The Lord of the Rings Online Stress Test on Saturday 13th January, which will officially open the Beta to a wider gaming audience. Thousands of eager Beta testers are expected to join the game in a unique opportunity to test the service to its limits. [More]
1/06/07 - Latest News
EA Disbands LOTR: The White Council?
Xoanon @ 4:11 pm EST
From: 1up.com: Under the condition of anonymity a source revealed to 1UP that the ambitious, licensed, RPG that was to be Lord of the Rings: The White Council is no more. The RPG, a game that was titled Project Gray Company before the Lord of the Rings' veil was lifted in July, was to be a game where players participated in the battle for Middle Earth, but not as one of the Tolkien-series' main characters. At the time of the game's announcement, executive producer Steve Gray offered the following: 'Our extremely talented and dedicated team is committed to creating an incredible new experience for fans of The Lord of the Rings and role playing gamers. With its next generation gameplay and epic new storyline, we think The Lord of the Rings, The White Council will be a huge success.'EA had "no comment" on whether or not the lights in the White Council team's offices had gone dark or not. [1up.com]
1/04/07 - Latest News
New Rings MMO Trailer
Xoanon @ 9:18 pm EST
Codemasters has released a new trailer for Turbine's upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG, which it's publishing later this year. Available exclusively through Eurogamer TV, the trailer shows off lots of Shire-y locations. And if you've not checked it out in the past, you ought to take a look at our Shadows of Angmar gamepage, where all the cool hobbits hang out. [More]
11/25/06 - Latest News
EA's 'The Rise of the Witch King' Review!
Xoanon @ 11:22 pm EST
 Mrcere writes: LOS ANGELES – Let me make this really easy for you: If you have played EA Game’s “Battle for Middle-earth II” and enjoyed it even moderately, the new expansion “The Rise of the Witch King” is spectacular! If you haven’t played it, you may find like I did, that crawling into Middle-earth in a game format is immensely fun and contains more of the ‘feel’ of Tolkien’s works that you thought possible. [More]
11/19/06 - Latest News
LOTR Online Update
Xoanon @ 3:11 pm EST
Lorien "Ramen" Carney, Community Relations Specialist for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: Today we’ve posted a new LOTRO Point of Interest, from a very memorable scene in The Hobbit featuring Bert, Tom, and William, three ill-fated Stone Trolls who’d hoped to make a meal of Thorin and company: Exploring Middle-earth: Bilbo’s Stone Trolls What is the best way to cook a dwarf? Alas, a certain trio of trolls never did learn the answer. [More]
Witch-King Rises
Xoanon @ 2:30 pm EST
A leading contestant for the longest game title ever, Electronic Arts' The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II --The Rise of the Witch-king for PC is officially gold and will ship to retailers November 28. The expansion pack enhances existing features and gives players the chance to command the rise of evil in Middle-earth. Rise of the Witch-king focuses on the epic battles that took place before those depicted in Peter Jackson's films. [More]
11/05/06 - Latest News
EA Reveals Another LOTR Title?
Xoanon @ 10:00 am EST
From totalvideogames.com: Electronic Arts has today confirmed next-gen versions of several of its franchises during a Conference Call to discuss the financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2007... [EA's Chief Financial Officer Warren] Jensen also spoke about 'another' Lord of the Rings title, but again it's unknown whether he was referring to a follow-up to former Project Grey, the previously announced Lord of the Rings: The White Council. [More]
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