Amazon originally tried to make a LOTR MMO with Leyou, but it fell apart.
Now, it’s giving it another shot with an internally developed title.
Amazon Games is partnering with Embracer Group and Middle-earth Enterprises to create a new Lord of the Rings MMO.
Amazon Games is now trying again and will develop the game internally this time.
Standing Stone’s Lord of the Rings Online is still out there and getting new updates.
Amazon’s game will be an “open-world MMO adventure” set in a persistent world in Middle-earth.
It’s also not connected to or associated with Amazon’s The Rings of Power TV series.
The game is coming to PC and consoles.
More details will be announced later.
They get it," Amazon Games Orange County director Rich Lawrencesaid.
Hartmann told GameSpotlast year that its first Lord of the Rings MMO disintegrated when Leyou was sold to Tencent.
Things got “very complicated,” and Amazon Games elected to simply cut ties and move on.
But they later got sold to Tencent and it just got very complicated," Hartmann said.
When Tencent bought Leyou, Middle-earth Enterprises exercised that option, and everything stopped.
EA’s mobile game The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth just launched on May 10.
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