The Lord of the Rings serial publication has a long and strange history with gaming — a history that ’s moderate to somereally uncanny interpretationsof Middle - earth . But now a unexampled speculation want to take a fissure at aTolkien - esque take on a familiar format : another massively multiplayer online biz .
Despite the fact there ’s in reality acurrently - still - activeMMO set in center - ground in and around the events of the novel ( the unsurprisingly appoint Lord of the Rings Online , which launched in 2007 ) , theHollywood Reporterhas word that another , set before the result of either The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings , is now in the work .
Saul Zaentz Co. ’s Middle - worldly concern Enterprises ( who was previously embroiled in abig lawsuitalongside Warner Bros. with theTolkien estateabout using its possession of certain Middle - world - ian element in digital games ) has struck a deal with the Hong Kong - based Leyou Technologies — or more specifically , a raw studio subsidy of Leyou called Athlon Games — to create a gratis to play , massively multiplayer online experience “ set in the world of in-between - world long before the events of The Lord of the Rings take place . ”
We do n’t screw much beyond that , or even how far before it will wind up going . Like most thing involving the Lord of the Rings stigma lately , it ’s hard to state justwho has the right to use which versionsof it and where — but this will likely be its own interpretation of the immense lore of mediate - worldly concern , rather than borrow fromversions we ’re already intimate with . Still , impart that Lord of the Rings Online is still active and supported , an all new “ prequel ” in the same genre seems like a weird idea . No release window was mentioned for the new title , so look to not listen much from this latest LOTR - raid into gaming for a while .
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