Lord of the Rings may have exited stage left from theaters, but itll be playing on PC screens for as long as Electronic Arts can wield the license. The second installment of the Battle for Middle Earth strategy series promises more violent slaughter and more flexibility ... and a lot more to sink your axe into.
Tuesday 18 July 2006
If you have any adventure in your heart, last week's news that EA is making a Lord of the Rings free-form action RPG should have sent your excitement levels into overdrive. We've had a sneak peek of the ambitious project - previously known as Project Gray Company - and now we're here to tell you all about it.
The White Council is set 80 years before the Lord of the Rings novels - Bilbo has yet to stumble upon the Ring and Aragorn is learning to tie his boot-laces. But

J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy tale of epic struggle across the war-torn Middle Earth landscape has always been full of death and destruction, but previous games haven’t quite captured the sheer brutality of war at its grisliest. That’s about to change. The next Lord of the Rings installment takes off the kid gloves and ramps-up the violence. Dismembered limbs, beheadings, splattering gore: War in the North has it all. After getting an up-close and personal taste of the mayhem during a recent hands-on session, it’s clear this cooperative hack-and-slash fest certainly doesn’t skimp on the bloodshed...

There simply are not enough cooperative RPGs in this world. Full stop. You wanna headshot your buddy with a sniper rifle, you’ve got dozens of options. But if you want to team up together and take down the evil anything, your options can be counted on just a few fingers. Thankfully, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is looking address that scarcity in a very big way. Chronicling the efforts of a different fellowship of adventurers during the War of the Ring, if there’s a more satisfying-looking co-op fantasy romp coming this year, we don’t know it...
Out... and out. We’re zooming out of a single star system. Out and out, until all we can see are the coils of a spiral galaxy. Lost Empire: Immortals is big. Very big. 5,000 separate star systems big. And it’s yours for the taking. Not all yours, of course, as you’re one of six major races venturing out from your home system, building an empire across the galaxy, encountering not just each other but many minor races that are
Help a stranded astronaut survive the dangers of space in the vertical platformer Lost Orbit. Take an early look at the game here...
Capcom had a surprise up its sleeve at its annual Captivate event. The publisher announced the third game in the Lost Planet series. Ready to go back to E.D.N. III?
Wondering if the Lost Planet franchise can recover from the misstep that was Lost Planet 2? We can't say for sure after playing Lost Planet 3 at Tokyo Game Show 2012, but we can say we sure like killing aliens with a huge, robotic drill. See how fun it can be in our exclusive gameplay demo...