lord of the rings

Santa's bringing both coal and presents to Lord of the Rings Online players this Christmas. First, the coal. Long-time Lead Designer Ben "Dr Octothorpe"...

Would you rather be mauled by a bear or backstabbed by a Burglar? Either way, your hypothetical future is about to get a lot...

Lord of the Rings Online players collaborated recently on a list of suggestions for fixes and features in the MMO, and Standing Stone...

Steaming TV services are making every fantasy franchise under the sun these days, from Lord of the Rings to Wheel of Time. So how...

There's a pretty strong opinion out there that Lord of the Rings Online's lifetime subscription was one of the best such subs in...

We all know that if there's an important bug in an MMO, developers will get around to fixing it... sooner or later. But if...

If Hobbits are seen as being generally lazy creatures that gobble up their weight in food every day, then how come they have such...

Many Lord of the Rings Online fans are well acquainted with Chance Thomas. While not the only composer for the MMO, his work...

One of the unexpected benefits of jumping onto Lord of the Rings Online new progression servers is that it's giving many of us...

Here's a fun thought exercise: What if standard assumptions about IPs and games is wrong? To hear some people tell it, games like

With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what...

The new Lord of the Rings Online progression servers are proving to be of significant interest to MMO players and bloggers alike, with...

Sara Oakheart. Let me tell you about Sara Oakheart. If you haven't ever played Lord of the Rings Online, you wouldn't have a...

Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate...

Part of me was laughing at myself. Here I was, a grown man, shuffling around my weekly schedule to come home in the middle...

Everybody's favorite hard-drinking, crazy-swimming Hobbit is back in Lord of the Rings Online. Standing Stone Games brought Bingo Boffin and his questline...

Players and kinships separated by the confusion and chaos when Lord of the Rings Online opened up twin legendary servers last week now...

With all of the special legacy and progression servers being started up across the MMORPG genre, I've noticed that there's an interesting factor that...

As I'm prepping this column, we're in the middle of a nice early November snowstorm. I'm sort of wondering where fall went and why...

I have been saying for years that RuneScape has a truly impressive yet overlooked body of video game music. To my knowledge, it's...