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Standing Stone Games has rolled out the third and presumably final test phase for Lord of the Rings Online: Corsairs of Umbar on the Bullroarer test server. The latest beta build now includes the titular port city of Umbar and all its associated quests as the studio prepares for the expansion’s release next week. The upcoming stat adjustments are also [...]

If you’ve been looking forward to visiting Umbar and the lands south of Gondor in Lord of the Rings Online next week, you’ll unfortunately have to put your travel plans on hold as Standing Stone Games delays the Corsair of Umbar expansion release by a week for more work. “Umbar is not going to be released on November 1st,” executive [...]

The first three zones of Lord of the Rings Online’s upcoming Corsairs of Umbar expansion is now available for testing on the Bullroarer server in preparation for the expansion’s release next month. Players will be free to experience the sights and sounds of the King’s Gondor West, Outer Gondor, and the Shield Isles until tomorrow evening. They’ll be able to [...]

After nearly three months of work and multiple delays, Standing Stone Games was finally able to kick off Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe Forester crafting event last week, just in time for the weekend rush. Just four days in and the event has been taken down as complaints came flooding in about a whole host of bugs and exploits, [...]

Lord of the Rings Online is celebrating autumn in the real world and in Middle-earth as it kicks off its annual Harvestmath Festival. This year’s version of the event will feature a fresh batch of autumn-themed cosmetics including exclusive new gear skins, a new goat pet, and a new elk mount. “Fall is considered by many to be the greatest [...]

Standing Stone Games has finally worked out the kinks in Lord of the Rings Online’s long-delayed Combe Forester event. The crafting event was originally scheduled to launch alongside River Hobbits and Update 37 in August but was yanked from the update at the last minute due to desync issues. Those issues have since been fixed and the event is now [...]

The Lord of the Rings Online developer team came together over the weekend in their latest weekly developer stream to talk about the upcoming crafting system refresh and the long-delayed forester crafting event. According to Lead Systems Designer Allan “Orion” Maki, the plan is to upgrade the old crafting system with new features such as the ability to upgrade craftable [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s senior world designer Matt Elliott took fans on a tour of the new post-war region of Outer Gondor. The region will be opening its doors when the Corsairs of Umbar arrives this fall and will be one of four new zones that will be introduced in the expansion. Standing Stone Games still hasn’t announced a [...]

Following Enad Global 7’s announcement that it was cancelling its promised Lord of the Rings Online remaster, there have been rumors that Standing Stone Games also plans to end development of the Lord of the Rings MMORPG. The studio, however, was quick to nip those rumors in the bud with a statement on the official forums assuring continued updates for [...]