Tomorrow in Las Vegas, Turbine Inc. of Westwood, Mass., is to announce an April 24 release date for The Lord of the Rings Online. The Lord of the Rings Online is widely regarded to be the most anticipated MMORPGs of the year. You can visit the official...
There's a new Beta Journal up over at the Lord of the Rings Online site, this time with players talking about their hands-on experience with the Monster Play system. The player speaking plays an Uruk archer for the experience, and tells of some exciting...
There's a new Dev Diary up over at Lord of the Rings Online . The topic up for discussion today is Monster Play - and more importantly - the ranks you can earn, and how to go about obtaining them. Not only that, but your ranks will be displayed on...
It’s time to pack your bags and move to Middle-earth as pre-order head start access goes live across Europe. Codemasters Online Gaming are pleased to announce that the wait is finally over for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ as servers...
With the release of Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, Curse is working to build a strong community-driven portal for the game. To that end, we're now looking to create a team of volunteers, to help add high-quality content to our information...
Turbine and Codemasters announced today in this press release that the release date for the free content update, titled "Book 9: Shores of Evendim", will be released June 13th. Some of the new features being introduced: Discover Evendim - About...
Beginning June 20th, and continuing through July 10th, Lord of the Rings: Shadow of Angmar players will be able to participate in the Summer Solstice Festival. While the name of the festival is different for each race - Lithe Festival for the Hobbits...
We have a new trailer available for Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar. The movie, found on the LoTRO Europe website features ingame footage for Shores of Evendim. Shores of Evendim Trailer
The next game update for Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar will introduce additional content to the game, including a new feature called Session Play. Players will be able to jump into various creatures in the game, and play them for sessions...
Turbine kicked off their Referral Program today for Lord of the Rings Online . The Turbine Referral Program lets paying subscribers of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ refer friends to play the game and receive free game time for successful...
LOTRO sweeps the boards with five nominations at the 2007 Golden Joystick Awards. Lord of the Rings Online - Turbine's hot new MMORPG based on the Lord of the Rings franchise has racked up a number of nominations for the 2007 Golden Joystick Awards...
The Lord of the Rings Online Cloak Design Contest has come back for another go at it. Players can submit, using the cloak design template , their own custom cloak designs. The winning cloak design(s) will be turned into a cloak that players will have...
The next update for Lord of the Rings Online was announced this morning. The update, titled "Book 10: The City of the Kings" is tentatively scheduled to release August 20th, 2007. "Our first update significantly expanded the world of Middle...
Lord of the Rings Online released their latest patch - Book 10: The City of the Kings - to live servers today. The patch notes are massive, so Patience - LOTRO Community Manager - has broken them up into more readable chunks on the LOTRO forums . You...
Today Turbine announced a free 7-day trial program for Lord of the Rings Online, their critcally acclaimed MMORPG based on the Tolkien-created Middle-earth. WESTWOOD, MA -- August 29, 2007 -- Turbine, Inc. has launched the official 7-day free trial of...
The developer's corner over at the Lord of the Rings Online website has a new article up this morning covering some of the changes and additions coming for the Minstrel class in the game's next update - Book 11. Solo players can expect a host...
Along with yesterday's preview of Book 11: Defenders of Eriador , this morning Turbine and Codemasters announced the official release dates for the patch; North American players will be receiving the content patch on October 24th, 2007 while European...
The release notes for Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar's next update - Book 11: Defenders of Eriador - are now available. Grab a snack, pull up a chair and dig in - these notes are huge, but the content contained in the update will no doubt...
Several LOTRO fansites have released more information and guides about the new housing feature provided in the latest free content update Book 11: Defenders of Eriador. The LOTRO community is buzzing with excitement about this one. Lotrolife.com has a...
Middle-earth's Harvest Festival is set to begin tomorrow, Friday, October 26th according to this press release sent out by Codemasters and Turbine. The Harvest Festival will be a yearly Halloween event that takes place within Lord of the Rings Online...
Codemasters has released the fifth video dev diary for The Lord of the Rings Online. One shows Jeffrey Steefel, the Executive Producer for the MMO title, talking about player groups. Steefel also explains more about the in-game mechanic known as Fellowship...
Turbine is giving back to the players who became Founders or Lifetime members of Lord of the Rings Online in the form of a special Holiday treat. Any account that applied a Pre-order key to their account before June 1, 2007 and had an active subscription...
This morning Turbine announced a distribution agreement with NHN Corporation that will bring Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar to Korea. NHN, the largest Korean Internet company and #1 gamer site in Asia, is a fantastic partner for Turbine as...
Following up on a slew of Game of the Year awards, including this one from GameSpy , Turbine, Inc. today announced that Lord of the Rings Online will be the first MMO to support DirectX 10 and NVIDIA's DX10 generation of video cards. “Turbine has...
With Book 11's new featured wrapped up and implemented for some time now, Turbine is pushing forward with development of Book 12. One of the first major changes announced for the update is that this is the Month of the Guardian, with the class receiving...
