Rick “Sapience” Heaton, Online Community Specialist for Turbine, writes: Greetings! Here’s the latest round up on everything LOTRO for the week ending 2/5/2010!

Volume III, Book I Live on Bullroarer
Bullroarer, the LOTRO public test server, is now live with Volume III: Allies of the King, Book 1: Oath of The Rangers! Be the first to try the new Duo Skirmishes! You will need to download the Bullroarer client to access the server. Read the preliminary release notes to learn more. More.. Continue reading “LOTR Online Update”

This weekend we welcome guest Aaron Campbell, Live Producer for The Lord of the Rings Online. Send me your questions for Aaron and be sure to tune in this Sunday at 2PM Eastern. TORN Radio Show: Episode 6

Cubicle 7 Entertainment and Sophisticated Games are proud to announce that they are jointly developing The One Ring: The Lord of the Rings® Role-playing Game.

“We’re tremendously excited about The One Ring,” said Dominic McDowall-Thomas, Cubicle 7 Director. “Our aim is to give our audience an authentic Middle-earth gaming experience, one that really captures the feel of Tolkien’s world.”

The designer and lead writer of this project, Francesco Nepitello, is a games industry veteran, best known for the hugely successful and critically acclaimed War of the Ring strategy board game, which he designed with The One Ring co-designer Marco Maggi and Roberto di Meglio. More..

Rick “Sapience” Heaton, Online Community Specialist for Turbine, writes: Greetings once again and welcome to your LOTRO Update!

Release notes for Siege of Mirkwood, Patch 1 are now available! The servers will be unavailable on Tuesday January 19 from 7:00AM -11:00AM Eastern (-5 GMT) while we perform an update to the game. More.. Continue reading “LOTR Online Update”

LOTRO Mirkwood Expansion New Screens - Tower RaidsTurbine has just released new screenshots for The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood, the digital expansion to the award-winning MMO. Siege of Mirkwood expands the online world of Middle-earth where players join forces to press further eastward into the dark, foreboding and treacherous forest of Mirkwood and take part in the epic conclusion to Volume II of The Lord of the Rings Online. Siege of Mirkwood launched on December 1st. More..

From Guardian Unlimited: You always have to be slightly wary of franchise tie-in games releases. More often than not, the licence used is little more than attempt to paper over the fact that the game itself, despite featuring an iconic character or setting, is generic rubbish. Games like Batman: Arkham Asylum that don’t follow this trend are always seen as a bit of a surprise. More..