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Fans will be waiting a bit longer to build their own Hobbit hole, as the upcoming Lord of the Rings cozy game, Tales of the Shire has been delayed to 2025.

Embracer Group's latest financial report shows a positive outlook, with better results since their long, sometimes rocky, reorganization process. The company continues its process to refocus on owned IP, including development of multiple Lord of the Rings-related projects

Summer Game Fest was the place to find all the latest and greatest video games, but not every booth at Play Days was dedicated to a console or PC. Downstairs in a corner booth, butting up against the cacophonous craziness of the Crash Team Rumble demos, was Wizards Of The Coast and its flagship tabletop card game Magic: The Gathering. 

At Summer Game Fest, we had the chance to go hands on with some of the starter decks coming to Magic: The Gathering next week with its Lord of the Rings Universes Beyond set. Bradford came away from that, as well as the most recent early access solidified that this was the Magic set of his dreams.

One of the original instanced end-game dungeons is getting a revisit with the recently released Return to Carn Dum, which released as part of The Lord of the Rings Online's Update 35 this week.

Another Lord of the Rings-based game is in the works per a new partnership between Private Division, a publishing label within Take-Two Interactive and Weta Workshop. The new game, which will be set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, doesn't have any hard details as of yet.

With the Fate of Gundabad expansion now out for Lord of the Rings Online, the latest 31.0.2 patch notes hitting today aim to bring some fixes.

It looks like Lord of the Rings Online's monetization will not change in a significant manner before the Gundabad expansion due sometime later this year.

A new update to the Bullroarer test server in Lord of the Rings Online brings changes to the rep accelerators which will now bind to characters once acquired, and will feature a max usage level of 100. The community reacts.

As we all transitioned into 2021, one thing that loomed on Bradford's mind while introducing his daughter to more MMOs was something that may go unnoticed by many, but affect thousands of players across the entire games industry: Accessibility. Bradford explores this and how future (and even some present) MMOs can ensure that more people can enjoy the game worlds that shape many of us.

In a new interview with The Gamer's Cian Maher, new details about the long-canceled MMORPG based in Tolkien's Middle-earth have emerged, including claims that the team had the blessing of Tolkien's son and caretaker of his life's work, Christopher Tolkien.

Yesterday, EG7 announced the acquisition of Daybreak Game Company for $300M USD, a move that sees the San Diego-based MMO developer move more into the spotlight than it has in years past. Thanks to a new investor presentation from EG7, we now know a bit more about Daybreak itself.

Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO might not be ready for players to dive into the open beta till early 2023, if a recently dug up production schedule is any indication.