News

Sounds Like We’re Getting A LEGO: Lord Of The Rings Game

MCV is reporting that they’ve found confirmation of a Lego: Lord of the Rings game in the brochure for the new LOTR toys.


May 2, 2012
In Real Life

These Girls Sing A Darned Lovely Song About Hobbits

Well, aw. I have to admit a fondness for Leonard Nimoy’s Hobbit Song, but this is on a whole new level. For starters, it’s actually good.


February 9, 2012
PC

Middle Earth Is Being Recreated, Tower By Tower, In The Elder Scrolls

Ever since EA binned The White Council, I’ve been dying for an open-world RPG set in the world of The Lord of the Rings. I am also far from the only one, as a team of modders has been working on building themselves just that, using Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls games as a base.


January 25, 2012
In Real Life

Your First Good Look At The LEGO Lord Of The Rings Minifigs

When LEGO’s Lord of the Rings sets were first announced, we only got a look at what Frodo and Aragorn would look like as the company’s iconic minifigs. Now we’ve got a much better look!


December 16, 2011
In Real Life

There Will Be Official Lego Lord Of The Rings

Lego and Warner Bros. have just announced that the Danish toy company has picked up the rights to produce playsets based on both Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings film trilogy, along with both new Hobbit movies.


November 2, 2011
News

Quiver At The Sight Of Lord Of The Rings: War In The North’s Collector’s Edition

I arrived home after a weekend away to find a long cardboard box waiting for me, and in it was the PS3 collector’s edition of Lord of the Rings: War in the North. It’s a long and skinny box, a different shape than the large, square statue-holders from other games.


September 26, 2011
PC

Middle Earth Is No Place For Americans

I like where Warner Bros is going with Lord of the Rings: War In the North. It’s got the polish of the movie games with a new story that should give it some breathing room. But that narration…


July 25, 2011
PC

There And Back Again, A Minecraft Story

The team behind Minecraft Middle Earth is building, on a reduced scale, the land of Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings. If you think that’s bananas, this walkthrough video above goes for half an hour and only covers the journey from The Shire to the Mines of Moria.

LotR fans will know that, well, that’s not very far.

It’s a fascinating exercise in volunteer labour, so to see how it’s being done (or if you want to help out), check out the link below.

Minecraft Middle-Earth [MME, thanks MtlAngelus!]


March 10, 2011
PlayStation

LOTR: War In The North Is D-Day Of Middle Earth, Only With Loot

There is another great war in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings saga, a bloody battle set in the north of Middle Earth. This front is the setting of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the fantasy world’s equivalent of the Allied invasion of Normandy, says developer Snowblind Studios.


January 7, 2011
News

Lord Of The Rings Tripled Its Revenue By Going Free-To-Play

In a podcast, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online said that the switch over to a freemium play model has already tripled the revenue coming in from the MMO.