Category Archives: news

Codemasters Connect is less than three weeks away now. As promised, the announcements are coming thick and fast! As a matter a fact a tantalizing LOTRO announcement was just posted to the Connect website. The announcement can be found here, … Continue reading →

New details about Book 13: New instances, Regions, Horses, Ettenmoors, and much more… Click here to see what we have discovered so far

If you and your guild are meeting up at Connect, why not book our special Guild meeting room? We’ve set aside a rather nice meeting room just for guilds so that they can conduct meetings and catch up with all … Continue reading →

Enjoy and read latest STRATIC dev chat transcript  – If there will be any new 12/24 man raid coming, with book 13? – Will we see any new 6-Man-Instances in Book 13? – Will we once be able to buy … Continue reading →

If you have recently noticed that a lot of players have their names colored in white,  don’t be confused,  they are flagged for roleplaying. How do you flag yourself for roleplaying? Simply:  /rp on and /rp off. This feature was … Continue reading →

Not one to miss out on a gaming industry trend as hot as corporate synergy, Electronic Arts recently proposed an acquisition of Take-Two Interactive Software for $26 a share (nearly a 63 percent premium to their current stock value) — … Continue reading →

Makers of the blockbusting Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy are being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars by the estate of author JRR Tolkien. Lawyers for the estate claim Hollywood-based New Line Cinema has failed to pay "even one … Continue reading →

Troll and Ranger session play is now available! Please remember that running more than two Ranger or Troll sessions within 12 hours is considered an exploit and may be subject to disciplinary measures. Enjoy!

UK bank Halifax and its subsidiary Bank of Scotland are blocking credit card transactions that pay for World of Warcraft subscriptions, after the massively popular MMO was linked to an unseasonably high number of credit card fraud incidents. Halifax is … Continue reading →

Lord of the Rings Online’s Book 12 update is out, and Book 13 should be ready by sometime this spring. A significant slice of information will be revealed at Codemasters’ upcoming Online Connect 2008 event in Birmingham, England this March. … Continue reading →