The Lord of the Rings has had some fantastic video game adaptations over the years, and now Amazon, in partnership with Embracer Group (the holder of Tolkien's IP), has announced a brand new open-world MMO set in Middle-earth.
Most interestingly, the game will coming to consoles and PC, and will be developed by Amazon's New World team, Orange County Studio. If you feel like you've heard something similar before, that's because this is actually the company's second attempt at a LotR MMO.
Back in 2019, Amazon announced a game based on the popular fantasy series only to cancel it two years later. The American tech company has also mentioned how this upcoming MMO is "unrelated" to the recent Amazon Prime series.
This project is still in the very early phases, so there's no release date just yet. In the meantime, Lord of the Rings fans can look forward to the new game, Gollum - scheduled to launch later this month on multiple platforms including Xbox Series X|S. There's also the original LotR MMO, which is still active.
How do you feel about Amazon having another crack at a LotR MMO? Have you played New World at all? Leave your thoughts below.
[source amazongames.com, via theverge.com]
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Would love a good mmorpg on xbox. Cant get into ESO for more than a week.
If it’s anything like Amazon’s Rings of Power, they shouldn’t bother. Amazon should be stripped of those rights.
I played the original LoTRO years ago. It was ok but after it went F2P I stopped playing.
Forget MMO's, bring back the battle for middle earth.
Oh I can't wait to see how this turns out. But since new world is a PC only game, I doubt this would make it to consoles.
@Jenkinss I agree and a Lotr one would be pretty good
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Amazon's whole foray into making their own games has been a massive money sink disaster. I'm going to set my expectations that this will be bad until it comes out, and then proved right or wrong. If there was some way to "short sell" a game pre-order I'd do that with this one.
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