James writes: Have you guys heard how badly the Lord of the Rings Online Launch is going in Europe? The game has sold by the bucket reaching number one in less than a week, but now the bad news. Unlike our American cousins, the servers cannot cope, it seems that Codemasters, the Euro distributors have gone their own way with the hardware and there is downtime for hours nearly every day for hours at a time. The login servers constantly crash and we already have had hardware problems, check the Euro forums. [More]
Day: May 2, 2007
Is “The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar” truly the one massively multiplayer online video game to rule them all? Only time will tell, but it’s certainly off to a strong start. After just a few weeks of exploring, this new online version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional epic is definitely ripe with potential. Like other persistent online role-playing games, “Shadows of Angmar” is an always on, never-ending fantasy world. This particular game gives players the chance to explore part of Tolkien’s massive fantasy universe while you make friends, defeat enemies and grow in stature to the highest rank of level 50. [More]
Ringer spy Bernard writes in to point out the latest rumors about Peter Jackson and “The Lovely Bones.” Looks like PJ might make a little money on the book adaptation. The speculation and swirling talk around Hollywood is entertaining all by itself! Click here to read the whole story.