9/22/03 - Latest News

War of the Rings Demo
Luthien @ 10:55 pm EST

It's the Night of RTS games! Not only has EA just released news about their brand new RTS game based on the films, but Liquid's RTS, War of the Rings, which is based on the books, has a new demo. You can download it here, here or here. Enjoy!

Official Playstation Magazine spotlights RotK
Luthien @ 10:38 pm EST

HavensSpy Buck was good enough to scan all seven pages of the brilliant RotK spread in this month's official Playstation Magazine. Thanks for the scans! And remember to get all of your friends ready for the new online cooperative play feature of this game--it looks like it's going to rock. [More]

New EA LotR RTS Game!
Luthien @ 10:18 pm EST

Electronic Arts has announced a brand new RTS game based on the movies: LotR: The Battle For Middle-Earth. Gamespy has a ton of new screenshots plus a four page review featuring an in depth look at gameplay dynamics and unit control. The scale is huge and the graphics look fantastic. Thanks to everyone who wrote to us about this story! [More]

9/21/03 - Latest News

ROTK Preview on 'Electric Playground'
Xoanon @ 12:09 pm EST

Ryan writes: I'm not sure if it was a repeat, but I just watched The Electric Playground (videogame and comic book show) and they previewed the Return of the King game coming out November 4.

The interview was with Steve Gray (director of game development) and he gave away a lot of details. He mentioned that two players can now place this game (as opposed to TTT game, in which only one player could play) and some of the playable characters include Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Faramir, Eowyn, Gollum, Sam, Frodo, and Gandalf, among others. Far more characters to choose from this time.

He also talked about how much the Nazguls will be involved in the game.

They showed lots of clips with the Nazgul attacking Minis Tirith. He also mentioned that Shelob will be in the game (I'm assuming as a 'boss'), but of course they didn't dare show her yet.

Another highlight of the preview was some in-game sequences showing massive trolls pushing huge siege towers up to the first wall of Minis Tirith, which we only caught a little glimpse of in the RotK featurette on TTT DVD.

This game is going to be incredible - even the stunt crew from the movies came in during the videogame production to motion capture all of their moves.

ROTK Demo Released!
Xoanon @ 11:09 am EST

The folks at 3dgamers.com have released a demo from the fourthcoming EA game 'Return of the King'. Take a look! [More] [Mirror]

9/19/03 - Latest News

Samples of Middle Earth Online soundtrack released.
Jando @ 9:06 pm EST

The Middle Earth Online website has been updated to include sample mp3s of the game's soundtrack. While nothing can quite top the awesomeness of Howard Shore's film score it's still quite cool.
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9/17/03 - Latest News

New LOTR Games Workshop Book!
Osyen @ 4:48 pm EST

Tim Huckelbery from Games Workshop sent us some specs on the new LOTR book! My favorite is the Watcher in the Water, what's yours? [More]

LOTR Board Game Goodness!
Xoanon @ 3:47 pm EST

CAhobbit sends in word that Hasbro's 'Trivial Pursuit: LOTR Edition' and Parker Bros. 'Monopoly: LOTR Edition' will hit store shelves on November 15th, 2003!

Click here to pre-order 'Monopoly: LOTR Edition' from Amazon.com

Click here to pre-order 'Trivial Pursuit: LOTR Edition' from Amazon.com

Reason for Treason - Why did Treason of Isengard get cancelled?
Xoanon @ 1:35 pm EST

More than two years ago dozens of game companies rushed, with all the seemingly best intentions, to nail down the videogame rights to then up-and-coming Lord of the Rings movies envisioned by director Peter Jackson. Fast forward to fall 2003, and VU Games, which published Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring for PS2 and Xbox in 2002, announced Friday the cancellation of the sequel, Lord of the Rings: Treason of Isengard on both systems because it did not meet expectations. Looking into the matter, IGN interviewed Andrew Shiozaki, senior brand manager at Vivendi Universal Games, about underlying reasons behind the so-called treason. [More]

9/16/03 - Latest News

New releases from Games Workshop
Luthien @ 10:50 pm EST

HavensSpy Nik has alerted us to new releases from Games Workshop for the Return of the King Table-top Battle Game. Miniatures include Orcs, Uruks, Easterlings and the Heroes of the West. Although we've seen some of these images before, there are new miniatures as well, including Sam and Frodo in Orc armour, Theoden mounted on a horse, and plastic scenery which looks like it could be from Osgiliath or Minas Tirith. SPOILERS [More]

Decipher ROTK Press Release!
Osyen @ 5:14 pm EST

The dates and info for the new card packs are here! Some pretty exciting stuff, check it out [here]

9/15/03 - Latest News

TV Watch: 'X-Play' Talks Hobbit Game
Xoanon @ 7:25 pm EST

Kishan writes: I was just browsing the techtv website and found that on X-Play tonight they will be showing game footage for the Hobbit videogame. Looks pretty good, you might want to let people know to watch the show. X-Play airs tonight at 11:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 2:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern. [More]

Take a look at out section dedicated to 'The Hobbit' Game

War of the Ring Demo on September 22nd
Maurice @ 6:51 pm EST

Vivendi Universal Games has announced that it will release a demo for their real-time strategy game The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring. The demo will contain two single-player mission from the game and will be released on september 22nd. [More] [More on War of the Ring]

9/14/03 - Latest News

RotK Just keeps getting better
Luthien @ 8:33 pm EST

HavensSpy Kev writes: I was just looking at some video game news and found that EA announced four of its titles on PS2 this fall will have online play, one of them being Return of the King. So not only is it a co-op multiplayer game now, but the PS2 version can even be played online. [More]