Turbine and the Lord of the Rings development team have been working quite hard during the first half of 2011 to bring to large updates into the game. MMORPG.com Lead Writer Bill Murphy recently had the opportunity to participate in a developer walkthrough of Update 3 with Turbine developers Linda Currie and Aaron Campbell. See what Bill discovered during his guided tour.

The topic of conversation (and playing via the test server Bullroarer) was none other than Update 3, which launches today for the NA crowd. Before we got started Aaron wanted to make sure we also mention the upcoming takeover by Turbine of the European servers for LotRO. He stated that this is scheduled to go down on June 1st and that when the servers come back up under Turbine’s control that’s when the EU folks will get Update 3 too. After that brief PSA though we moved onto the goods: content Update 3 for the free version of LotRO.

Read more of Bill Murphy's Lord of the Rings Online: Update 3 Developer Walkthrough.