Kotaku: Lotr

Should You Buy The Lord of the Rings: War in the North? Yes.

Mike Fahey — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:00:00 EDT

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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 »

Lord Of The Rings: Conquest Launch Trailer Appropriately Epic

Mike Fahey — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST

With Pandemic's Middle-Earth take on the Star Wars: Battlefront series heading to stores as we speak, EA has an unleashed the official launch trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. More »

LOTR Online Developer Diary

Stuart Houghton — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:20:00 EST

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. More »

Lord of the Rings Conquest Trailer

Stuart Houghton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

Pandemic's attempt at Battlefrontin' the LOTR franchise, The Lord of The Rings: Conquest, is looking rather pleasing. I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising that bits of this trailer look so cinematic - much of the third film was essentially a really well done cut scene, after all. More »

LOTRO: Mines Of Moria Beta Opens

Stuart Houghton — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:40:00 EDT

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? More »

Lord Of The Rings: Conquest

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:30:00 EDT

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. More »

Cliffy B Talks Gears of the Rings

Mark Wilson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:40:07 EDT

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?? More »

Don Daglow, Licensing LOTR vs. TRON

Mark Wilson — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:30:37 EDT

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 license ended there. As for TRON... More »

LOTR Open Beta - Run You Fools

Mike Fahey — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:22:37 EDT

What is potentially the most hobbit-forming MMO of all time is about to start it's open beta phase, leading up to the release on April 24th. Just hit up the web site, click on the World Tour link (or the link below this post), and follow the instructions to find out how to receive your account key and download the client. European players need to go to a different site to sign up, but Canada, Australia and New Zealand? You're with us, but Canada called shotgun and New Zealand has to sit in Australia's lap. Don't make us turn this car around. More »

EA and New Line Extend LOTR License

Brian Crecente — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:00:24 EDT

Electronic Arts renewed the license to create more games within the world of Lord of the Rings, the company announced today. More »

Battle for Middle-Earth 2 Demo on Live

brownlee — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:40:56 EDT

If you log into XBLA right now and check out the demos, you should see that Electronic Arts' have released a demo for their Tolkein-inspired RTS game, Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth II. More »