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The Lord of the Rings Online Goes Free to Play in the Fall

Turbine, Inc., as developer, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, as publisher, have announced that The Lord of the Rings Online, the MMO based around the fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien, will be going free to play, allowing all interested fans to get into the game and play their part in the fight agai...

7 June 2010
05:05 GMT

Blizzard Admits Common Points Between Warcraft and Tolkien

Elves, dwarves and orcs are becoming such a common feature in fantasy games these days, that some are actually beginning to make a selling point out of not having them. But since the most popular MMORPGs around use these creatures to their full potential, it's pretty safe to say that they're still liked, an...

19 January 2010
09:09 GMT

No More Lord of the Rings from Electronic Arts

It seems that the rights to use the content from the Lord of the Rings movies in videogames is no longer with Electronic Arts. Warner Bros., which has created the movies, has now taken back the intellectual property and is probably looking for a way to create some videogames based on them. The news came by way of a r...

16 March 2009
05:26 GMT

Turbine Talks Lord of the Rings Future

Recently, Turbine has executed a move many in the MMO industry thought could not be done. They extended their agreement with the Tolkien Enterprises regarding the use of the intellectual properties related to Middle Earth. The extension was not only of a temporal nature, sealing Turbine's rights to the IP until ...

18 March 2008
07:01 GMT

First Expansion for LOTRO Details Revealed

So, Turbine is delivering on its promise of bringing yearly episodic content to its massive Lord of the Rings Online project. With a release date of late 2008, the expansion is called Volume II: Mines of Moria because of the amount of content that it delivers and because of the chronology of the series, as it takes p...

17 March 2008
06:05 GMT

Turbine and Tolkien Enterprises Extend LotRO Deal

Turbine, makers of Lord of the Rings Online, have just extended the rights agreement they had with Tolkien Enterprises, regarding the intellectual properties Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. The deal ends in 2014, with an extra option tagged on to further extend it until 2017. Tolkien Enterprises, the society that a...

21 February 2008
04:39 GMT

Lord of The Rings Online - Gay Marriages Off

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar has just been released a week ago, set in a fictional fantasy universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien, Middle-Earth. The MMO allows marriages between characters and even between those of the same sex, but all this is about to change, as Turbine designer Nik Davidson told ...

2 May 2007
02:36 GMT


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