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

LOTRO Legendarium: 10 reasons to get psyched about Before the Shadow (that aren’t the new zones)

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Standing Stone Games went and pulled a classic case of misdirection on all of us -- and I'm not complaining. While the studio had...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow begins public testing – with a few surprise features

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Testing is now underway for Lord of the Rings Online's major fall release, as Standing Stone Games announced that it's put Update 34: Before...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….

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Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

Lord of the Rings Online highlights Before the Shadow’s Cardolan region lore and landscape

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Lord of the Rings Online is once again following up on its earlier tour of the Cardolan region with a separate post that offers...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 393: Saga of the Chronicles of the Ember Shards of Aria

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Justin and Bree discuss Halloween in MMOs, Embers Adrift's launch, Star Citizen, World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online, Chronicles of Elyria, and Legends of Aria, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends.

Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores

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With WoW Classic's Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of '08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these...

Lord of the Rings Online’s latest stream delves into Before the Shadow’s story

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If Lord of the Rings Online has been demure about some of its past content releases, no one will be able to lob that...

LOTRO Legendarium: Four options for character leveling in LOTRO

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One of the unsung benefits of maturing MMORPGs is that they generally offer far more options for leveling and adventuring than what was present...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath has officially arrived for spooky season

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One of the very best Halloween festivals in the MMO genre is live now, as Harvestmath has launched for Lord of the Rings Online...
Everybody good over here? Everybody harvesting? Great.

Lord of the Rings Online outlines the Harvestmath Festival starting October 12

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The last crops are being harvested across Middle-earth, and that means it's time for everyone to celebrate some concluding harvests with some spooks and...

Lord of the Rings Online tours through Before the Shadow’s Cardolan

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Now that Lord of the Rings Online has properly introduced its upcoming Swanfleet zone, the studio's shifting its focus to promoting the other member...

One Shots: The Old Lion’s Arch Fan Club

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While it was certainly gutsy for Guild Wars 2 to smash up and replace the main city hub of Lion's Arch back in the...
Have a thing.

LOTRO Legendarium: Are LOTRO’s missions a little too good?

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When Before the Shadow arrives in Lord of the Rings Online next month, it will bring both an additional set of missions and a...

Global Chat: What gets you back in an MMO you previously dismissed?

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We've all been there: We try out an MMO, find that it isn't doing it for us, and abandon it. But then down the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 391: Shuffling around dragons, pirates, and embers

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Justin and Bree discuss Embers Adrift, WoW Dragonflight, Skull and Bones, Lost Ark, and LOTRO, with adventures in WoW Classic, Tower of Fantasy, SWG Legends, and Ultima Online, plus mailbag discussions on licensing for game streaming and MOP guilds, forums, and Discord.

Lord of the Rings Online offers new pictures and lore context for Before the Shadow’s Swanfleet region

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Did you miss out on the dev-led preview livestream of the Swanfleet region that's coming to Lord of the Rings Online in its Before...
Looking out.

The Daily Grind: How many MMO toons can you juggle at once?

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I may have overdone it with the City of Heroes toons. I'm currently working on a project to level several dozen characters up so I...

The MOP Up: Shooter looter Rift Loopers rolls out in early access

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Experience the multiverse -- and then blow up a small part of it -- in Rift Loopers, a new twin-stick survival shooter that just...

One Shots: Hey Hobbit, what’s ursine?

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Lord of the Rings Online's recent loosening of class/race restrictions is either the greatest or the worst thing that's happened to the game, depending...

Lord of the Rings Online delivers a tour of its upcoming Swanfleet zone

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A whole new beginner experience is heading to Lord of the Rings Online next month thanks to the upcoming Before the Shadow content update....

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