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Lord Of The Rings CCG Will Include Diversity And Originality
29.5.2023
Next month sees the release of Magic: The Gathering’s Universes Beyond expansion for Lord of the Rings. The Tales of Middle-Earth card game will, say creators Wizards of the Coast, introduce a diversity to the endlessly reworked franchise that hasn’t been seen before.Read more
Lord of the Rings Fanfic Writer Sues Amazon, Tolkien Estate For $250M
21.4.2023
Some guy is currently suing Tolkien and Amazon to the tune of $250 million. That alone takes serious bravery. But what’s notable about this lawsuit is the reason he’s suing: Copyright infringement over his Lord of the Rings fanfic. Specifically, he’s arguing that Amazon lifted elements of...
Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit Rights Bought By Video Game Super-Publisher
18.8.2022
The Embracer Group, who are slowly buying any and every video game publisher and studio on the market, just announced that they have purchased Middle-earth Enterprises, the company that owns the rights to most of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important works, including Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.Read...
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 Plans New Lord of the Rings Game with Middle Earth Enterprises
10.5.2022
Electronic Arts announced plans for a new mobile game based on the popular fictional universe of J.R.R Tolkien. Titled Lord of the Rings: The Heroes of Middle Earth, this game will deal with some of the unexplored storylines from the beloved novels. It will be a joint venture for Electronic Arts...
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...
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....
After Years Of Trying, WB Games Has Successfully Patented Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System
6.2.2021
After trying multiple times since 2015, WB Games has successfully secured a patent on the nemesis system featured in Shadow of Mordor and its sequel, Shadow of War. The patent goes into later this month.Read more
Making Battle For Middle Earth Sounded Terrible
9.12.2020
If you think the conditions developers are working under now are bad, imagine what they were like 16 years ago. Actually, don’t imagine it, you could just read this account of what it was like making the classic Battle For Middle Earth instead.Read more
Moneysaver: Guardians Of Middle Earth, Defiance $5, Blacklist, BenQ
22.8.2013
One does not simply always get the best deals (unless they read the Moneysaver).Read more