Archive for April, 2008

Ian McKellen was recently confirmed to take the role as Gandalf in the upcoming “The Hobbit” films. Empire had the chance to talk to Ian McKellen at the UK premiere of Speed Racer. McKellen was a…

MTV’s Shawn Adler had the chance to set down with the recently announced director for “The Hobbit”, Guillermo Del Toro. Del Toro had some interesting items to say regarding the two hobb…

Finally, official word has come that Guillermo del Toro, well known for directing movies like Hellboy and Hellboy II, will be director for the upcoming LotR movie as well as its untitled sequel.

“Del…

Turbine has released a statement regarding the implementation of book 13, which is to take place tomorrow. Book 13 introduces the new region Forochel to the game, as well as a new Monster-play class, the Hob…

Gaming news site ‘videogaming247′ has posted the rumor that the new LotR game in development by Pandemic will indeed be modelled after Battlefront, something we picked up earlier this year.…

Yesterday night, the finals for our BfME2 Anniversary Tournament were finally played! In these last few exceptional matches, PoW|Bikini eventually came out as the winner. The second place went to PoW|Cl…

The Middle Earth Center Staff would like to congratulate Dre@mer who won the contest with his map, The Fall of the Iron Crown. We wold also like to thank all who submitted a map for all their hard work. Some trul…

Gamespy got the opportunity to check out Forochel first-hand, and have been so kind as to write up a full preview article about it. It doesn’t contain too much new for those that’ve been followi…

As usual, Turbine has released a seperate set of release notes for test server Roheryn. Even though it should not be considered final, it is an interesting read with many smaller fixes and additions that hav…

Turbine has released new information regarding the first hobby in lotro, fishing. Fishing will feature several quests, along with the ability to allow players to use their catch in a cooking recipe. As pla…