From addict3d.org (via Kotaku): The developers of the original Neverwinter Nights, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Blood Wake has closed its doors, ending twenty years of Stormfront Studios. We’d heard from a number of ex-employees over the past 24 hours who tipped us off to the closing, telling us that Stormfront prez Don Daglow announced during the studio’s weekly meeting that it would be shutting its doors forever, offering no severance and no further health benefits. The studio was said to have a staff of about 30 full-time employees at its closure. According to Next-Gen report on the shuttering, Stormfront reps confirmed the rumor, saying that its current project “made no revenue.” It’s unclear whether that project was the recently shipped The Spiderwick Chronicles, but we have an e-mail in with Stormfront to learn more.
Category: Gaming
Several of you let us know that our freinds over at LOTRO introduced a new race to the inhabitants of Middle-earth today, especially for April 1st. Leave it to them to think of something so fowl. Read More
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: Players who started their adventures in Archet will recognize the grim Ranger Amdir; his involvement in the struggle between Captain Brackenbrook and the Blackwold brigands would eventually lead him to a dark and sinister fate. Characters of Middle-earth: Amdir
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Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online today unveiled Volume II of The Lord of the Rings OnlineTM, the first retail expansion for the award-winning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG). The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™ Unveiled at Connect 08
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