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Lord Of The Rings Moneyball Is the Perfect Meme To End 2023
27.12.2023
I didn’t think it was still possible, but Twitter just served up my favorite crossover of the year: Lord of the Rings Moneyball. You see, you take the plot of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and then talk about it using Moneyball quotes. It’s simple, stupid, and so satisfying I can’t believe nobody...
PlayStation Plus Premium Has Free Trials Of 2023’s Best And Worst Games
20.11.2023
PlayStation Plus Premium, the most expensive tier of Sony’s online membership, has one perk that sometimes feels glossed over next to things like an extensive game library: game trials. These let you play a chunk of a game before you throw down cash. But not all game trials are made equal. Two...
Report Claims Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology
9.10.2023
An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT. The claim appears alongside a laundry list of alleged issues behind...
2023's Worst Game Just Got A Pretty Big Patch
2.8.2023
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, one of this year’s worst games, received a massive update on July 27 that addressed multiple issues across all platforms.Read more
The Flash Movie Trainwreck Reaches A New Low With NFTs
14.7.2023
The Flash has been a disaster for DC and Warner Bros. The Ezra Miller-led superhero film is securing a record as one of the biggest box office flops in the business. There are a lot of factors that led us to that point, but Warner Bros. attempts to get any money out of the film before the...
Gollum Players Fight For Word Records In 2023's Worst Game
6.7.2023
While The Lord of the Rings: Gollum may be one of the worst games of 2023 so far, even bad games can be fun to speedrun. In fact, sometimes the very things that make a game so frustrating for normal players—things like bugs and busted controls—can create exciting opportunities for glitches, level...
Review: 2023’s Worst Game, Gollum, Has Entered The Chat
5.7.2023
After hours of dodging orcs and ducking spiders, I found Shelob’s lair. I’m a slave in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, performing tasks like collecting tags and herding animals for maybe a bite of rotted bread. I was aching to escape. Meeting Shelob seemed like the first real attempt at bargaining...
Magic: The Gathering’s Elusive Ring Card Found, Valued At $2M
30.6.2023
Magic: The Gathering, the popular fantasy-themed collectable card game from Wizards of the Coast, has recently launched an official Lord of the Rings expansion. And in the midst of the millions of printed cards, the Frodos and Saurons and Aragorns and all the rest, the publisher included a special...
Gollum Studio Will Stop Developing Games After Its Dismal Release
30.6.2023
After apologizing for the dismal state of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, developer Daedalic Entertainment is now shuttering its development arm to instead focus on publishing games since Gollum didn’t meet expectations.Read more
Every Legend of Zelda Visual Aesthetic, Ranked From Worst To Best
27.6.2023
Every game in The Legend of Zelda series is defined, in part, by its aesthetics, the visual design choices coalescing every element into one cohesive vision. Even during the Hylian hero’s original 8-bit journey, strong art direction transformed simple sprites into sprawling labyrinths, mysterious...
The Best Lord Of The Rings Video Games
16.5.2022
Tolkien’s influence on video games stretches back decades. Fans have been playing games based on The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) for almost as long as there have been video games, and for every misguided flop there has been a game that has been surprisingly OK for a licensed product. And...
EA Is Once Again Making A Lord Of The Rings Video Game
10.5.2022
I know licensing isn’t the sexiest topic, but when it comes to certain properties—like Star Wars and major sports—it plays a super important role in what games we get to play and who makes them. Which is my way of explaining why I’m writing about the surprise announcement that EA is making...
Elden Ring Player Does A Perfect Lord Of The Rings Impersonation
3.5.2022
It may have had some writing done by an old white guy, and have magic and swords and monsters and the word “Ring” in the title, but Elden Ring is not Lord of the Rings. Not even close. Unless....Read more
Lord Of The Rings Mod Hit With Takedown Just As Series' Rights Are Up For Sale
11.2.2022
Ownership of the Lord of the Rings series has somehow been in the news twice this week. Firstly and most prominently because the rights to the series are going up for sale for the first time since the 1970s. Secondly, and more bizarrely, because this week of all weeks a prominent Lord of the Rings...
The Art Of The Lord Of The Rings Movies
16.9.2021
Twenty years on from the release of the first film in the trilogy, New Zealand’s Weta Workshop have dropped a bunch of concept art from the whole Lord of the Rings series.Read more
Lord Of The Rings Online Hobbit Hits Level Cap By Baking Pies
21.4.2021
Lord of the Rings Online has a level cap of 130, and most players get there by killing things and doing magic shit. Except that is for Cookingwithsim, who playing as a humble Hobbit managed to get there almost exclusively by...baking pies.Read more
Report: Amazon Cancels Lord Of The Rings MMO
17.4.2021
Amazon has cancelled an in-development Lord of the Rings MMO it first announced in 2019, Bloomberg reported today.Read more
We Finally Got A (Brief) Look At The Gollum Game
25.3.2021
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum won’t be out until 2022, but the developers at German studio Daedalic Entertainment shared a brief snippet of gameplay during today’s Future Games Show.Read more
Everything You Need to Know About Lord of the Rings' Second Age
16.2.2021
Even though we first learned about it in 2017, we barely know anything about Amazon’s plans for its Lord of the Rings series. One thing we do know—other than that a bucketload of talent is running all around New Zealand to make it—is that it’s set in the Second Age of Middle-earth’s long history....
Gollum Game Delayed To 2022
26.1.2021
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, currently in development by German studio Daedalic Entertainment, has had its release date pushed back a year to 2022.Read more