lord of the rings online News

With the official launch of Steam Deck last week, Valve’s portable gaming platform offers a possible test bed for PC game developers looking to make the jump to consoles. Lord of the Rings Online developer Standing Stone Games is especially curious as to how the classic fantasy MMORPG plays on the newly-launched platform. “I will be curious to see what [...]

Middle-Earth just got a little bit bigger withLord of the Rings Online’s latest game update – Update 32: Rangers and Ruins. Technically, the size of the world itself remains the same but Standing Stone Games did open up a new zone called the Angle of Mitheithel for mid-level players to explore. “Stretching south from the Trollshaws to the junction of [...]

Here’s some good news for free-to-play Lord of the Rings Online players. Standing Stone Games is planning to make extra class, race, and virtue trait slots free for everyone. The additional slots are currently locked behind a paywall but will soon be unlockable by reaching certain level milestones instead. The changes will roll out with Update 32 which is now [...]

January is shaping up to be a busy month for Lord of the Rings Online players as its progression servers get new content while the rest await the start of several new in-game events. Today’s update introduces new content for both the Shadowfax and Treebeard Legendary servers. The sped-up Shadowfax server is now moving on to the Rise of Isengard [...]

After a slight delay, the new 6-man Adkhât-zahhar Fate of Gundabad dungeon has officially opened its doors with today’s Lord of the Rings Online update. “Deep in the Pit of Stonejaws, a grand tomb holds the remains of the many ancient dwarf-lords of Gundabad. The necromancer Loknashra, now empowered with the spirit of Drugoth, has returned to raise an army [...]

Lord of the Rings Online has received a slew of Fate of Gundabad tweaks, changes, and fixes as Update 31.1 officially rolls out on the live servers. One of the highlights of the latest update include a 25% reduction to the morale regeneration of level 131-140 enemies. “Their rates were inflated due to changes made to base player vitality rates [...]

Standing Stone Games has kicked off the Virtue XP Boost event early on several Lord of the Rings Online EU servers as compensation for a recent translation issue. From now until December 19th, Belegaer, Gwaihir, and Sirannon will enjoy a 20% increase to Virtue XP earned. The rest will have to wait until December 16th for the event. In other [...]

Our Good Samaritan video game company of the week is *drum roll please* Acti… sorry, scratch that… Standing Stone Games. The Lord of the Rings Online developer accidentally gave away extra level 130 boosts and other rewards to Fate of Gundabad expansion owners who upgraded from the Collector’s Edition to the Ultimate Edition. Instead of removing the extra rewards, Standing [...]

Standing Stone Games gives Lord of the Rings Online players more things to do as the team opens the doors to two new Fate of Gundabad dungeons: Assault on Dhúrstrok and Den of Pughlak. The new instances were initially supposed to launch with the expansion earlier this month but was delayed for further polishing and is now live with Update [...]