lord of the rings online

Official Site: Lord of the Rings Online
Studio: Standing Stone Games, formerly Turbine/WB Interactive Entertainment; published by Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: April 24, 2007
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Lord of the Rings Online Roglarg trailer shows that there is no love lost between spider and orc

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How many official videos will it take to wash out the taste of that terrible Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor launch trailer? At...

LOTRO’s insane player Olympics return next week

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What do you get when you take a bunch of stubborn and foolhearty Dwarves, get them tanked on ale, and then start boasting about...

The Game Archaeologist: Climax’s Warhammer Online

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Let's begin with a little personal history. Back in 2008, I decided to get into the blogging scene by jumping on board the latest...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite pop culture reference in an MMO?

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I will never be completely sure of it, but I like to think that the "Deep-Toads" of Lord of the Rings Online's Moria are...

Global Chat: Overwatch’s stalled story

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With all of the attention, fandom, e-sports, and development given to Blizzard's Overwatch, have you ever suspected that the team shooter has a critical...
So, uh

Lord of the Rings Online releases a new Mordor trailer, this one on Dulgabeth

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Remember when Lord of the Rings Online launched the Mordor expansion and rolled out a 480p trailer that made everyone recoil in horror? A...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that changed their names

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Names and titles fascinate me. While sometimes they have no deeper meaning than to sound pleasant and be memorable, a label can indicate purpose,...
SWEAR TO ME

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG is the worst at balancing difficulty?

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Justin's LOTRO Legendarium article on whether or not Mordor is too difficult struck a chord wth me. "I do not envy devs and their...

LOTRO Legendarium: Is Mordor too difficult?

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If there's one topic of discussion that I've been hearing a lot in world chat, on the forums, and among my kinship, it's about...

Global Chat: Has No Man’s Sky finally arrived as a full-featured game?

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It's been a year since the disastrous and controversial launch of No Man's Sky, a game with failings that included, among many others, a...

Battle Bards Episode 104: Something wicked this way comes

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And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s...

The LOTRO team dishes on Mordor and PvMP

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Hungry for more information about Lord of the Rings Online and its recent Mordor expansion? YouTuber Stefalla interviewed Standing Stone Games CM Jerry Snook...

One Shots: Alien sunset

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I will admit that I've been craving a good space exploration sim lately -- the burn to "explore strange new worlds" is rising inside...

Dungeons and Dragons Online confirms that Ravenloft expansion is still on for this year

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It has been a good long time since we have heard anything about Dungeons and Dragons Online's promised Ravenloft expansion. While we still don't...

LOTRO caps off summer with the Farmer’s Faire

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Hot on the heels of the recently ended Summer Festival, Lord of the Rings Online ushered in this year's Farmer's Faire to end August...

Perfect Ten: MMO experiments in transmedia synergy

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We're not going to argue that MMORPGs are the dominant form of media entertainment these days, but they do have endurance and a devoted...

The Daily Grind: What’s your comfort MMO?

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In all of the years that I've been playing MMORPGs, I've noticed that it is far, far easier to return to a known property...
Build it up.

LOTRO Update 21.1 works to improve Mordor

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The road goes ever on for Lord of the Rings Online -- as does the work needed on its newest expansion, Mordor. Today the...

LOTRO Legendarium: A trip back through LOTRO’s expansions

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Now that we're in the thick of Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor (which I'm still enjoying very much), my mind has taken a...

The Daily Grind: What’s a rite of passage in your MMO?

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Lately I've been playing a new Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online, which has the added benefit of bringing me back to...

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