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]
Month: May 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.
Earendil writes: I just thought you might like to know that The Children of Húrin debuted #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. That seems pretty news worthy! [More]
Lorien “Ramen” Carney, Community Relations Specialist for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: Lead Content Designer Brent “Keth” Schmidt walks us through the making of the Dread System. [More]
According to Variety Peter Jackson’s spec script for THE LOVELY BONES, which he co-wrote with partners Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, is being shopped around to studios this week. Jackson also plans to direct. (New Line won’t be receiving a copy.) The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who is raped and killed. Her spirit, however, keeps watch over her family and her killer. The script is based on the novel of the same name by Alice Sebold.
Order Alice Sebold’s amazing book ‘The Lovely Bones’ on Amazon.com today! [Order]