Category: Lord of the Rings Online News

Mail.ru has announced that service for Lord of the Rings Online in Russia will be closing effective June 1st. As of this writing, players can no longer register for the game and no more payments for microtransaction items are being accepted. A special …

Turbine has taken to the airwaves to give Lord of the Rings Online players a sneak peek into what they can expect in Update 16. Find out more about the lore behind the update, the new Legendary Imbuement System, and some brand new instances coming to t…

The Lord of the Rings Online team took to the airwaves to discuss the new way that legendary weapons will be imbued and announced that most of the current legendaries will be grandfathered into the new system.

While Lord of the Rings Online hasn’t been around quite as long as other AAA MMOs, it’s still been around long enough for the short attention span of the internet to proclaim it ‘forever’. Launched in April 2007, the game has taken the Lord of the Rin…

The Lord of the Rings Online forum has been updated with the latest update notes. Included among the general bug fixes and feature enhancements is the news that unique essences from Central Gondor will no longer be stackable. Players will only be able …

Recently, we were invited by Turbine to check out Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 15. In it, we were presented with a first look at the Beorning class and also the new big battle that centered around the off-camera lore story of the retaking of Pela…

According to a confirmed report at GamesIndustry.biz, Lord of the Rings Online developer, Turbine, has been hit with a round of layoffs as part of restructuring by Warner Bros. Interactive. The exact number of employees affected remains unknown.

Lord of the Rings Online players anxious to give Update 15 a look will have the opportunity to do so on Friday, October 10th when the content goes live on the Bullroarer test server. Players will be able to try out the new Beorning class as well as exp…