{"id":32177,"date":"2009-05-13T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T23:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32177"},"modified":"2009-05-13T23:51:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:51:40","slug":"play-in-middle-earth-on-your-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/05\/13\/32177-play-in-middle-earth-on-your-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Play in Middle-earth on your Xbox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Would you like to run and jump and fight and talk with friends and compose songs in Middle-earth?  Would you like to do it on your XBox 360?  Long regarded at a PC-only venture, the stereotypical MMO (Massive, Multiplayer, Online games) may be expanding to a much large audience.<\/p>\n<p>Turbine is the current producer of &#8220;Lord Of The Rings Online&#8221; and just celebrated its two-year anniversary.  In a recent hour-long interview (story found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/05\/04\/32058-torn-talks-with-lotro-for-games-2nd-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) the movers and shakers behind the game talked a fair amount about changing MMOs from the current model to fit all the ways people use new technology.  They didn&#8217;t mention LOTRO, but there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamedaily.com\/games\/lord-of-the-rings-online-shadows-of-angmar\/pc\/game-news\/turbine-looking-info-console-space\/3408\/21763\/ \" target=\"_blank\">rumors<\/a> and now GameDaily has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamedaily.com\/articles\/features\/lord-of-the-rings-mmo-for-360-potentially-debuts-at-1299month\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> solid story, sent in by Ringer spy Robin, rings true.  As for me, the idea of the excellent Turbine game delivered to my big-screen TV, well, I only hope it is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to run and jump and fight and talk with friends and compose songs in Middle-earth?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}