{"id":148537,"date":"2019-07-11T01:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1795157\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:51:50","slug":"amazon-is-making-a-lord-of-the-rings-mmorpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/11\/amazon-is-making-a-lord-of-the-rings-mmorpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is Making a \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 MMORPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">&#8216;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&#8217; (Photo Credit: New Line Productions, Inc.)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve gotten the bad taste of the bloated <em>Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0film trilogy out of our mouths (along with the weird <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/the-bewildering-slavery-of-middle-earth-shadow-of-war-1720080\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">orc slavery<\/a>\u00a0of the <em>Middle-earth<\/em> video games) things are looking up for <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> fans. We\u2019re getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/tolkien-tells-epic-story-of-lord-of-the-rings-creator-j-r-r-tolkien-1774277\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">biopic<\/a>\u00a0of author J.R.R. Tolkien and Amazon is preparing a new streaming show set in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/television\/amazon-teases-middle-earth-map-for-its-new-lord-of-the-rings-series-1774877\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">unexplored era<\/a>\u00a0of the fantasy universe directed by J.A. Bayona.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the only adventure Amazon is planning in Middle-Earth. The company is also working on a new <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> massively multiplayer online role-playing game.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall, there has already been a <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> MMORPG. <em>The Lord of the Rings Online<\/em> was released in 2007 at the height of the <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> craze, but like everything else it failed to dethrone Blizzard even after ditching its subscription model. Years later, Amazon Game Studios, along with Leylou Technologies and Middle-earth enterprises, is taking another crack at this idea in an upcoming free-to-play game for PC and consoles. Of course they say it will be based on the original books and not the movies but come on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DSQ0_i1qgiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Even though I don\u2019t care about <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, this project interests me just as a big sign of life from Amazon Game Studios. Beyond owning Twitch, Amazon has a lot of gaming talent under its umbrella and even developed its own Lumberyard engine based on Crytek&#8217;s famous CryEngine. But so far the retail giant has little to show for it. The same development team is also apparently still working on an original colonial MMORPG called <em>New World.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTolkien\u2019s Middle-earth is one of the richest fictional worlds in history, and it gives our team of experienced MMO developers, from the same studio developing New World, tremendous opportunity to play and create,\u201d Amazon Game Studios VP Christoph Hartmann said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>So prepare your fellowship and look forward to Amazon\u2019s new <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> MMO. For an upcoming Tolkien video game that\u2019s a little more small scale check out the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/finally-a-lord-of-the-rings-game-about-gollum-1780145\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Gollum<\/a>\u00a0game. And here are our favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/toy-tuesday-the-most-epic-lord-of-the-rings-toys-1778709\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> toys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>&#8216;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&#8217; (Photo Credit: New Line Productions, Inc.)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Now that we&rsquo;ve gotten the bad taste of the bloated Hobbit&nbsp;film trilogy out of our mouths (along with the weird orc slavery&nbsp;of the Middle-earth video games) things are looking up for Lord of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/amazon-is-making-a-lord-of-the-rings-mmorpg-1795157\/\">Amazon Is Making a &lsquo;Lord of the Rings&rsquo; MMORPG<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/11\/amazon-is-making-a-lord-of-the-rings-mmorpg\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2078,2054,2,3907,3826,2047,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-CDL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148538,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148537\/revisions\/148538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}