Lord of the Rings Online Articles
The Lord of the Rings Online is celebrating its 17th anniversary this year, and with it comes new cosmetics, fireworks, and a new furry friend pet to keep you company during those dungeon runs.
Standing Stone Games released a new update for The Lord of the Rings Online's earlier this week and unlocked tier 4 of The Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo raid.
Standing Stone Games has apologized for the unexpected downtime that kept its game worlds out of commission over the weekend. Lord of the Rings Online players can expect a free mount while DDO players are left with just a few boosts and VIP time.
Both The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online are both back up after a weekend-long outage.
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If you're having trouble logging into LotRO or DDO - you're not alone as Standing Strone Games appears to be dealing with extended outages.
Spring is in the air and The Lord of the Rings Online is celebrating with the arrival of the Spring Festival event.
The new update has hit Lord of the Rings Online, and with it comes with a new 12-person raid, instances, class changes, and more.
The Lord of the Rings Online's Bullroarer test server is open once again, with Update 39 up for testing. Meanwhile, for those hoarding LotRO points to grab a shiny River Hobbit, you can now do so.
In a letter to fans this week, the LotRO team showcased its tentative plans for 2024, including its 17th-anniversary celebrations, a new hobby, and an expansion in Q4. Also coming is a much-needed Kinship refresh, though details on what that will entail were light.
The last Cord of the Rings stream for The Lord of the Rings Online team has come and gone last Friday, and community manager Jerry "Cordovan" Snook touched on some interesting topics, from hardcore servers to a business meeting with publisher Daybreak.
The Lord of the Rings Online's Crafting Guilds have made it to its latest expansion, Corsairs of Umbar, in a patch this week. Meanwhile, the residents of Combe are prepping for its latest attempt at its Forester crafting event.
The Lord of the Rings Online has a bit going on this week as its launching both its Yuletide Festival as well as getting its Treebeard legendary server to Helm's Deep with a new level cap of 95.
The Lord of the Rings Online's Corsairs of Umbar expansion has finally launched and we're wrapping up our interview series on building the expansion. In this final part we explore how the studio sets expectations and pricing, localizes the MMO and then starts to show it to the community.
The Lord of the Rings Online is taking players to the southern edge of the Middle-earth map today as Corsairs of Umbar is now live on the game servers. The latest expansion continues the story of the epic MMORPG and takes players to a location never before seen in Tolkien-based media.
With any new expansion, it's not just the new region you get to explore that is exciting - it's the new systems and mechanics brought to the game. In The Lord of the Rings Online, that is mainly felt in the new Mariner class. We spoke to the Standing Stone Games team about the class' inception and how they approached building the sea shanty singing swashbuckler.