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The First Non-EA Lord Of The Rings Game Is…A Kids Game
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | For years, EA held the licence to the Lord of the Rings movies. So only EA could make games using the likenesses of Seans Astin and Bean. But no more. More »
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High or Low? Fantasy in Dragon Age
11:40AM AJ Glasser | Dragon Age: Origins Lead Writer David Gaider and BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have different ideas about what high and low fantasy is; which may foretell a genre crisis for the game.
Pandemic Sets Date For Lord Of The Rings: Conquest
1:00AM Mike Fahey | The battle for Middle Earth will soon be joined by forces from the human realms as EA’s Pandemic Studios announce the release date for the Tolkien take on Star Wars Battlefront, Lord of the Rings: Conquest. The war kicks off on January 9th internationally, with the U.S. showing up after the action starts (as per usual) on January 13th. “Players will finally be able to fight through Middle-earth along the front lines of good or evil,” says Josh Resnick, co-founder and general manager at Pandemic Studios. “And what ‘The Lord of the Rings’ fan hasn’t fantasized about joining Sauron’s army to slay Hobbits?” More »
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Lord Of The Rings: Conquest
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | There you have it. Our first footage of Pandemic’s upcoming LotR game which, for those not in the know, is Battlefront, plus Rohirrim, sans the Stormtroopers. I kinda wish the battles looked…bigger, but then the fact Pandemic were confident enough to release a debut trailer consisting entirely of in-game (or at least very close to in-game) footage is always enough to bolster my confidence in a title. More »
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More On Pandemic’s Lord Of The Rings Game
1:00PM Luke Plunkett | Pandemic’s upcoming Lord of the Rings: Conquest? Oh, it’s so pushing my buttons. All of them. Now that I know some more on the project, well, those buttons are being mashed to within an inch of their worthless, plastic little lives. According to lead designer Sean Soucy, not only will the game feature the epic battles from the movie timeline, but also some other, more intriguing set pieces, such as the Battle of the Last Alliance and even the razing of the Shire. Really. Soucy also sheds some light on the game’s “vehicles” and weapons, saying that “Horses, wargs, playable trolls and ents, catapults, siege towers and battering rams” are just “some” of the gear you’ll be able to command in the game. So great. Conquest is due in the Fall. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Game [Crispy Gamer] More »
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Rumour: Pandemic’s LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque
10:00AM Brian Crecente | Yesterday Luke brought you news, via Electronic Arts’ analyst meeting, that Pandemic was working on a new Lord of the Rings game. But at the time that’s all we knew. Luke opined that maybe it was something tied to their ability to create games like Mercenaries that deal with destruction in a sandbox environment or that, perhaps, it would be a game that, like Star Wars Battlefront, is all about combat and action over large areas. Close, very close, according to our sources. We hear that Pandemic’s Lord of the Rings will put a Battlefield competitive first-person shooter spin (with mounts) on the beloved fantasy tale and personally, I couldn’t be more happy about it. I’d love to mix things up in a rolling war with magic, swords and bows. Dark Messiah almost got it, but in the end somehow missed the mark. Let’s see if Pandemic can do better. When reached for comment Pandemic only said that they’d like to talk more about their upcoming Lord of the Rings title, but that now isn’t quite the time. More »
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Pandemic Working On New Lord Of The Rings Title
3:20PM Luke Plunkett | My aching sense of disappointment at the cancellation of EA’s Lord of the Rings Oblivion clone The White Council still lingers. To be replaced soon, however, with a renewed sense of hope, even if it is – pardon the quote – a fool’s hope: EA revealed in an analysts report today that they’ve set newly-acquired developers Pandemic to work on a Lord of the Rings game. More »
Cliffy B Talks Gears Of The Rings
2:40AM Mark Wilson | Freakin’ LOTR. I thought that pop culture had finally overcome the overrated madness of the overrated movies based upon overrated books. But it’s inescapable. Take a stew-eating, pure diesel, sci-fi future, manly man game like Gears of War—it seems completely free of of stupid ring fantasies. That doesn’t sound like LOTR at all, right Cliffy B? We wanted the Locust to be intelligent savages; they’re like the Uruk-hai in LOTR, only with guns…The Uruk-hai would organise themselves, line up and then storm in – even though they look like horrible monsters. That’s what the Locust essentially are… Freakin’ LOTR with guns? Did you really have to ruin it for me, Cliffy? Did you?? Gears: CliffyB reveals Lord of the Rings inspiration [cvg] More »
