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

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Lord of the Rings Online releases a three-pack of Minas Morgul dungeons

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Following the big (but not unexpected) announcement that Daybreak is fracturing into a trio of studios underneath a publishing arm, one of the questions...

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2012’s Riders of Rohan expansion gallops to LOTRO’s Legendary servers in February

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Just last week I asked Justin how long he'd have to wait for his progression server toons in Lord of the Rings Online to...

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Paws for impact.

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Lord of the Rings Online begins testing three new Minas Morgul instances

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Lord of the Rings Online's Bullroarer test server is delivering up a new patch today as 25.2.1 - and new instances - run the...
Never over.

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