lord of the rings
LOTRO and DDO hand out additional compensation for VIP accounts
As both Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online gradually resume normal operation following nearly two weeks of server instability, Standing...
Lord of the Rings Online previews Rohan housing, re-enables world chat
Life is starting to get back to normal in the bruised and battered Lord of the Rings Online. Following the server troubles of the...
LOTRO and DDO offer apologies and gifts for two weeks of troubles
Two weeks ago, Lord of the Rings Online players were treated to "cascading" issues across the game servers that led to multiple days of...
Global Chat: Your complete LOTRO wedding guide
Is your mind whirling with all of the things to do with Lord of the Rings Online's new Midsummer Festival and the associated wedding...
LOTRO Legendarium: What we have here is a failure to communicate
If this year has taught us anything, it's that clear and boosted communication is vital to handling a crisis. Having information and a message...
Lord of the Rings Online returned to service last night, with fresh outages and lag
We return to the ongoing Lord of the Rings Online saga this morning, as Standing Stone Games' MMOs have entered their 10th day of...
LOTRO and DDO say they’re ‘making progress’ on the nine-day server crisis, but the community isn’t having it
The server crisis that has been plaguing both Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online for over a week now may...
The Daily Grind: What were some of the most memorable MMO outages?
This past week, many Lord of the Rings Online players impatiently nibbled on lembas bread and took to Reddit as several of the North...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 280: Middle-earth practices social distancing
Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.
LOTRO has now been suffering downtime and tech issues for an entire week
It turns out to have been a bad week to start subbing to Lord of the Rings Online.
As we've been covering, LOTRO is now...
Lord of the Rings Online goes into its sixth day of server outages
The server woes that began last Wednesday for Lord of the Rings Online continued all through the weekend, with players on multiple realms left...
LOTRO players postpone Weatherstock due to unstable servers
If anything, Lord of the Rings Online's server issues worsened as this week progressed. The problems, which initially seemed isolated to a small handful...
Lord of the Rings Online’s servers struggle while Weatherstock returns
If you've been adventuring -- or trying to, at least -- in Middle-earth this week, you may be quite aware that certain Lord of...
Massively Overthinking: Has the pandemic changed your gaming habits?
There was a popular Medium piece floating around last week about how some people are finding refuge in gaming during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic....
Tencent edges out Sony in Leyou Technologies buyout negotiations
A week or two ago, we covered the especially-amusing-to-MMO-fans news that Sony was gunning to buy up Leyou, the Chinese holding company that both...
The Daily Grind: How grown-up do you like your MMO graphics?
I may be settling comfortably into middle age, but I'll freely admit that I'm very partial to bright colors and highly stylized designs for...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 279: New World in the new year
Justin and Bree discuss New World, WoW Shadowlands, Dual Universe, Legends of Aria, Elder Scrolls Online, and Torchlight III, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on lazy development and Mists of Pandaria.
One Shots: Forest for the trees
There's something enchanting and thrillingly dangerous about stepping into a vast forest in an MMORPG. You never know what may be around the next...
LOTRO’s Weatherstock XII concert series is this weekend – here’s how and where to join in
OK, Lord of the Rings Online fans. If you can pull yourselves away from the biggest MMO wedding ever, then it's about to be...
Perfect Ten: More time traveling adventures in MMOs
Writers and geeks alike can't seem to get enough of time travel -- and neither can I! Back in 2017, I wrote a list of...
