After the fashion of ancient Númenor, the Men of Arnor revered their dead almost more than they did the living. Great tombs were erected for their kings in a place called Men Erain. Of the ten kings of Arnor, only seven were interred at Men Erain, for Valandil son of Isildur […]

Each year, Canthans flock to Shing Jea Monastery to prepare and partake in a great feast to honor the celestial animal that will watch over them during the coming year. This year’s animal, the Celestial Rat, will descend from the heavens to enjoy Cantha’s culinary delights. If satisfied with the meal, the Celestial Rat will […]

SOE will be hosting a weekend of major tournament events where players can receive extraordinary promotional cards and in-game loot rewards! New “Loot Tournament Weekend” tournament queues, where players can receive new promotional and loot cards will be running all weekend long. Each event will start when all slots have filled in the tournament.
Each player […]

Music system temporarily off
We’ve had to turn off some parts of the new music system because they’d been causing problems with server load.
This means that:
Music tracks may not be automatically selected for you as you move from area to area. But you can still always select a track to play manually from the […]

You’ve seen the Xunlai predictions our writers made for past tournaments. More recently, we asked you to show off your own prowess at prognostication. And you answered. From the submissions we got, we gathered several likely PvP Predictors and published their results below.
Predictor: Prophet Jakal
GvG
1. Dark Alley [dR]
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In the months after Strider brought four hobbits to the hidden valley of Rivendell, Elrond Half-elven sent forth many Elf-scouts and Rangers to search the surrounding lands for signs of the Enemy’s servants. One of these scouts, an Elf-woman named Candelleth, established a way-station in Tâl Bruinen, the southern reaches of the Trollshaws that follow […]

ArenaNet has posted the winners and honorable mentions for their Winterday Hat Design Contest.
The Wintersday 2007 Contest offered one Guild Wars player the opportunity to make a significant and historic mark on the annual holiday celebration. Players were invited to get into the spirit of the season and create a piece of concept art for […]

Each new book for Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar takes a look at two of the game’s classes for the purpose of improving and re-balancing the class. Here we present the changes that are on the horizon for the Guardian in Book 12.
The Month of the […]

As promised in last week’s newspost, here are some of the initial ideas we have to further improve the player interaction in the game.
1. Expect the first new single-way player-vs-player combat area to hit the game in the first half of next year, along with a number of other PvP updates in the future.
2. As […]

The Lord of the Rings Online official site has been updated with a developer journal detailing how they plan to improve the land of Angmar, and they’re not just killing off boars.
The yellow sun slipped beneath the rim of the encircling hills, and the land was shrouded in shadow. In […]