US EditionAmazon cancels Lord of the Rings MMO for the second time
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Amazon Cancels LORD OF THE RINGS MMORPG Project
Some years ago, Amazon paid an Erebor’s worth of gold for the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth film and TV rights. Around $1 billion in human money. In addition to feature films, this deal signaled Amazon would make up to six different television projects as well as perhaps its biggest undertaking, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (or MMORPG if ya nasty) set in the Lord of the Rings universe. Now we’re learning (via Collide…
Why Did Amazon Studios Cancel Lord of the Rings Biggest Project?
Amazon Game Studios has unfortunately cancelled a massive multiplayer online role-playing game based on The Lord of the Rings. It was revealed by former Amazon Games engineer, Ashleigh Amrine, who shared on LinkedIn about getting laid off (via Collider). This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y’all would have loved it). As rumors sugg…
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