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Lord of the Rings Online players who lost their anniversary gifts during last week’s unexpected rollback should now see those items returned. Update 33.0.1 is now live with those gifts, ready to be claimed by the first character to login to the game. I repeat, the anniversary goodies can only be claimed by the first character that players use to [...]

There’s nothing like the promise of free stuff to get the crowds to come in. Case in point - Lord of the Rings Online just got a huge surge in its playerbase, so much so that the 15-year-old MMORPG is experiencing login queues for the first time in years. Surprisingly, players don’t mind the queues at all and are actually [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s anniversary celebration was cut short just after it started due to a major inventory bug. Standing Stone Games promptly took the game offline following reports of missing Legendary Item satchels for the Rune-Keeper and remained inaccessible well into the evening. The servers reopened at around 8:00pm PDT on April 20th but the servers had to [...]

Standing Stone Games has officially kicked off anniversary celebrations in Lord of the Rings Online and are giving away the best gift players could ask for – a boatload of free content. To mark the long-running MMORPG’s 15th anniversary, the studio has made all expansions from Mines of Moria to Helm’s Deep permanently free, along with all their related quests [...]

Next week’s big Lord of the Rings Online anniversary update will not only kick off anniversary festivities in Middle Earth, it will also mark a big change in the long-running MMORPG’s monetization scheme. As Standing Stone Games revealed last month, they’ll be making a whole host of paid content free for all players with the release of Update 33. These [...]

Lord of the Ring Online’s Anor Legendary server is slowly catching up to the normal servers as it moves on to the next phase of content. Players on the progression server can now step foot into the fallen city fortress of Minas Morgul which originally opened on the live servers in November 2019 with the release of the game’s seventh [...]

Standing Stone Games has opened the Bullroarer test server once more to give Lord of the Rings Online players time to test out the new Yondershire zone ahead of its opening next month. Yondershire is a new zone to the north of the Shire where reclusive and troublemaker Hobbits have chosen to make their home. “Since the time of Bullroarer [...]

Lord of the Rings Online is set to make one of the biggest changes to its monetization scheme since the fantasy MMORPG went free-to-play in 2010. If you like free stuff (who doesn’t?), then you’ll be happy to know that Standing Stone Games will be making a boatload of content permanently free alongside the release of Update 33 in April. [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax Legendary server is moving on to its next phase of content and one step closer to Mordor with the opening of the Rohan and Wildermore regions. Players on the speedy progression server can now explore these iconic realms and complete their accompanying quests with a new level cap of 85. Meanwhile, Standing Stone Games [...]