lord of the rings
One Shots: Do you have a few moments to talk about Jediism?
Here's a player housing pro-tip that is useful when striking up a settlement in a risky location: Make a door. A big door. A...
Massively Overthinking: Deleting pieces of MMOs to save them
Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...
LOTRO Legendarium: Are LOTRO’s new PvP servers a good idea?
If you haven't been tracking this, you should be aware that Lord of the Rings Online has been running the new "Tournament of the...
LOTRO’s and DDO’s freebie content codes are going live today [Updated: They’re here!]
Fun fact: Our story on how Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online were going to be extending their content promotion...
The Daily Grind: Would you do MMO quests if they didn’t offer rewards?
Does everything we do in an MMORPG have to be motivated by a reward? I was thinking about that the other day in Lord...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?
A few weeks back, I was swapping my SWG Legends character to a new class when my five-year-old daughter started begging me to swap...
Lord of the Rings Online confirms Summer Festival and Farmer’s Faire for August
For those Lord of the Rings Online players who work their free time in-game around events, there's been an asterisk on the game's Summer...
LOTRO and DDO extend promo, give away zones, discount expansions, and sweeten subs
OK, everybody who has had a beef with how expensive the cumulative content is for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons...
The Daily Grind: What MMO content are you totally sick of doing?
The other day I was questing my way through the Shire in Lord of the Rings Online and chatting to my kinship about how...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 273: ArcheAge Unraveled
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, PSO2 PC, Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor, Guild Wars 2's No Quarter, EverQuest, Daybreak, Sea of Thieves, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, ESO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on rogue server security and digital rights.
LOTRO’s Weatherstock, Blizzard-themed Ramadan lanterns, and an MMO screensaver
Would you like a little reminder that MMO devs and communities can be awesome? Sure you would. Allow us to provide this soft and...
Lord of the Rings Online re-activates character transfers
It has been a good long while since Lord of the Rings Online players were able to transfer characters between servers. In fact, for...
Lord of the Rings Online starts testing its limited-time PvP server
This might go down as one of the strangest experiments that Lord of the Rings Online has ever fielded. Coming soon to the game...
LOTRO community unravels mysterious cipher to reveal a new dungeon
For the past week, the Lord of the Rings Online community has been hard at work trying to decipher a secret code that the...
LOTRO Legendarium: What I want from Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO
While my primary interest and focus in this column continues to be Lord of the Rings Online, I'm not so stubborn as to refuse...
Lord of the Rings Online is finally buffing Hunters in a big way
Remember that "something secret" that Lord of the Rings Online promised would arrive today? Part of it may be a surprise for one of...
Something secret is coming to Lord of the Rings Online tomorrow
Lord of the Rings Online has had its fair share of secrets over the years, but rarely is the playerbase given a heads-up that...
One Shots: Better thrones and gardens
Let's face it: The best throne that most of us will ever sit on is the one that squats in our shameful bathrooms. The...
See how insanely tall some LOTRO structures are thanks to this fan’s video
You might have seen some of those YouTube videos that compare and contrast the size of real-world buildings or fictional spaceships to each other...
LOTRO Legendarium: Wells of Langflood, River-hobbits, and free questing
With major content updates only coming to Lord of the Rings Online two or three times a year now, it's a big deal when...