Just when we thought we’d seen all there is to see in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga, Snowblind Studios goes and writes an entirely new adventure, chronicling the goings on in the North while Sauron’s eye was focused on Frodo and friends. Should you lend it your bow, or give it the axe? More »
Creative Director Cardell Kerr and Ryan Bednar, lead designer, take a moment to show off two new character classes in this developer diary for Codemaster’s MMO Lord of the Rings Online.
Now, see, I think Turbine have missed a trick here. Surely the best — nay, the only — way to enter the beta program for LOTR Online expansion pack Mines Of Moria is by speaking ‘Friend’ and then entering?
Sadly, they have plumped for the more prosaic (and, lets be realistic, more practical) option of a website where you can sign up in the hope your name gets plucked from the wizard’s hat.
The Mines final-stage beta is invite only, but you can apply for consideration at the official site. As well as the titular underground complex, the expansion will contain a couple of new character classes, hundreds of quests and Balrogs.
Invites Open for Mines of Moria Beta [Wired Game|Life]
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.
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 »
As learned gamers, we usually scoff at movie licensed games, calling them the not-so-cheap way out for developers looking to cash in. But during a roundtable at GCDC today in Leipzig, Germany (Europe), Stormfront Studios’ Don Daglow presented two tumultuous experiences with licensing movies: Lord of the Rings and TRON. Obviously LOTR was in many ways a dream proposition…[but]when we started the project, everyone was saying, Peter Jackson??
But then… [Producers]brought up to EA 16 minutes of the movie…After they saw that…everything had changed.
Lord of the Rings wasn’t a multi-billion franchise yet; it wasn’t a sure thing for publishers to bet on. But the problems with the licence ended there. As for TRON… More »
