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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.


November 24, 2010
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Hubble Discovers Mordor In Space!

Mount Doom doesn’t lay inside the heart of the black land of Mordor after all — it’s in a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, judging from a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.


August 28, 2010

There Will Be Orc Blood In Lord Of The Rings: War In The North

Finally, you can amputate and decapitate an Orc, thanks to Snowblind Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the hack, slash and loot adventure with the Tolkien stamp of approval.


June 15, 2010

Lord Of The Rings: War In The North Trailer Is Cutting Throats, Taking Names

It’s a good thing Warner Bros now owns the rights to both the Lord of the Rings books and movies. It means they can do stuff like this, which is a little bit of both.


April 21, 2010
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Lord Of The Rings Online Team Snatched Up By Warner Bros

Warner Bros video game family grows again today, as does the its ownership of things that fall under The Lord of the Rings brand, with the acquisition of developer Turbine, maker of The Lord of the Rings Online.


March 11, 2010
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PlayStation Move Gets Its First Wii Port

With the PlayStation Move looking, well, similar to Nintendo’s Wii Remote, you may have wondered how long it would take until it was announced a Wii game was being ported to the PS3. The answer? How about, oh, a few hours.


December 16, 2009

Aragorn’s Quest Trailer

If somebody pitched to me the idea of “like Muppet Babies, only for Lord of the Rings”, I’d say no, thanks. Then again, I don’t work for Warner Bros.


May 21, 2009
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The First Non-EA Lord Of The Rings Game Is…A Kids Game

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.


April 2, 2009

High or Low? Fantasy in Dragon Age

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.


October 31, 2008
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Pandemic Sets Date For Lord Of The Rings: Conquest

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?”