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Image: Prime VideoIt’s baffling that someone really tried to legitimize fan fiction when the estate of of The Lord of the Rings author is still actively pushing out adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal work.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayAmazon and the Tolkien estate were sued by author Demetrious Polychron, who after releasing his book titled The Fellowship of the King (his LOTR sequel), decided to go after the team that’s officially able to continue The Lord of the Rings franchise. Variety reports that the…

PlayStation Plus Premium members can now try their hand at two of the most notable games of the year. The subscription service is adding free trials for a bizarre duo: Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Lord of the Rings Gollum.  LOTR fans will get to check out Gollum for a full hour, and based on the game’s terrible reception, that might be more than enough time with it. Gollum has a Top Critic Score of just 37 on OpenCritic, with only 4% of critics recommending it. Following the game’s release in May 2023, publisher Daedlic…

Daedalic Entertainment, the German developer behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, is undergoing many changes following the poor reception to the game earlier this year.The studio has canceled a new Lord of the Rings game that was in development, and in fact, Daedalic will no longer make games at all. Going forward, Daedalic will be a publisher only. The company said it has eight "promising" releases set for release this financial year. You need a javascript enabled browser…

Bill the Pony can be a commander In case you haven’t heard, there’s going to be a Lord of the Rings Magic: The Gathering set out this summer. While the art shown off so far has been marvelous, it turns out that the team over at Wizards of the Coast has a lot more going for it than cool art. We spoke to Ovidio Cartagena, lead art director on the set, about what to expect. Spoiler alert: Wizards is going big on this set. What’s the deal with the Lord of the Rings set? A recap Beyond the obvious reason of “money,”…

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a game that launched to poor critical reception, will receive a patch on May 27. The update will supposedly address performance issues that have plagued the game since its release earlier this week.This comes by way of developer Daedalic, which issued a statement to Eurogamer about the game's current state. "As you maybe already can imagine, we are aware of the feedback brought up by preview-testers," an excerpt from the statement reads. You…

Images via (L) HBO (R) New Line Cinema With Amazon Studios announcing that the second season of The Wheel of Time, based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling book series of the same name, is arriving this September, we’re going to take a look at the high fantasy story that changed this genre forever and continued to pave the path that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings started all those years ago. In a lot of ways, The Wheel of Time is similar to Middle-earth in terms of scale and thematic resonance, with the…

Amazon Original’s highly anticipated series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, faced an alarming wave of racist backlash, leading the production to take significant measures to support the cast. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power cast receives a therapist as they face and overcome a wave of racist backlash. (Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video) Scheduled to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in September 2022, the series boasts a diverse ensemble cast, which unfortunately sparked immediate racist…

The Lord of the Rings is getting a massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game adaptation, IP rights holder Embracer Group announced on Monday. Amazon Games' Orange County studio, which previously worked on New World, will lead development on the title, which will be published globally for PC and consoles. The open-world MMO is currently in the early stages of production and will feature stories from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit literary trilogy by author J.R.R. Tolkien — in a “persistent world set in…

Next month will see the release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a fresh retelling of the iconic character from J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy books. Like several other PC games, this adventure will allow for some impressive visual features if you have the right hardware, including Nvidia's fancy ray-tracing technology. This is a far cry from the 2022 gameplay trailer, which was met with criticism toward the graphical performance shortly before Nacon delayed the game.While Gollum's journey across Middle-earth…

Daedalic Entertainment, the developer behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, has explained why you'll need to pay additional money for the characters to speak Elvish (Sindarin) throughout the game.For those who are unaware, Elvish is the native language spoken by elves in The Lord of the Rings franchise. It was first introduced in the books, then brought to life in the films. Thanks to Eurogamer, we have a statement on why the dev team decided to lock Elvish behind a paywall.…