I made a mistake early on. I read The Lord of the Rings when I was but a wee lad. From there, it was generally downhill. Things have picked up in recent years with George R.R. Martin’s excellent Song of Ice and Fire multilogy, but the scarcity of consistently epic fantasy makes the reemergence of […]

Currently aimed to launch next spring, Turbine’s The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, which Midway will co-publish, will put players in Eriador, the region of Middle-earth that includes the Shire, at a time when the War of the Ring and the Fellowship’s quest are both under way.
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The message we got from our time with Lord of the Rings Online at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show was that the developers are looking to create the most authentic experience possible for bringing the piece of fantasy fiction to the online world. Whether they succeed or not remains to be seen, but the amount […]

Turbine really knows how to make things hard for itself. Its latest title, Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, has more challenges ahead of it than poor Frodo did when he was asked to get rid of that annoying ring. Sure, it’s the genre the company has cut been cutting its teeth on […]

Midway’s Gamer Day was filled with games of all sorts including the MMORPG set in Tolkien’s fantasy universe, The Lord of the Rings Online. The game is looking better than the last time we had hands-on with the title and we had the opportunity to see a couple of new things including the Monster Play […]

The chat channels on the Lord of the Rings Online beta are supposed to stay on-topic - ie talking about quests and the like - but people do keep bringing up the unmentionable question: how does this game stack up against World of Warcraft?
“Warcraft is just hack and slay!” spits one contemptuous dwarven champion over […]

Since the summer of 2006 select players have been grinding away in Middle-earth, through the various testing phases of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. We got a chance to talk to the folks from Turbine today about some of the higher level content, PvP Monster Play, and conjunction battle system. If […]

urbine’s upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG recently shifted to open beta, letting key-holding players in to level up to 15, a cap to be removed after retail release on April 24. We’ve spent a number of hours running around the lands of Eriador, from the huts and inns of Bree-town to the pipe-weed fields […]

We’ve previewed the Minstrel, Burglar, and Champion classes so far, but what about the rest of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar’s combatants? While we’ve yet to touch the Guardian, LotRO’s tank class, and the Lore-Master, a ranged spell blaster, we have managed to build a Hunter to 15 and a Captain […]

bout a week after release we’re still deeply involved in our journeys across Middle-earth, hence the lack of a review. Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar has so far proven to be a remarkably accessible MMORPG, with easy to understand classes and skills, quest goals, and group dynamics. It doesn’t do anything […]