Amazon Game Studios Is Working On A Lord Of The Rings Game And TV Shows

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Amazon game studio and Chinese game studio Leyou(which owns Warframe) today announced the long-rumored Lord of the Rings MMO. They will co-develop a free MMO game based on Lord of the rings for both PCS and consoles. The massively multiplayer online game based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien will be free to play, with a release date yet to be set. Amazon studios is developing a separate amazon original TV series based on the Lord of the Rings for Prime Video. Games and TV shows are unrelated and developed separately. It is meaning we'll soon get both a new Rings game and that TV show it's already revealed.

The new game will be set in Middle-earth during the original Lord of the Rings trilogy and is separate to the Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series, which is a prequel. There's no word yet on a story or setting. The Amazon Game Studios team working on the game includes veteran developers who have worked on Everquest, Destiny, Planetside, World of Warcraft, Defiance, Rift, and other popular MMOs. Amazon Game Studios VP Christoph Hartmann said in a statement, "Tolkien's 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."There is a "strong leadership team" in place to push forward the new game, Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Game Studios, said, with the studio also growing its team to build the game.

We'll just have to wait and see how closely intertwined the game is with Amazon's TV series -- nothing is certain yet.

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