Lord of the Rings Online

New LotRO Expansion Announced – Riders of Rohan

Posted on Jan 25, 2012

Today Turbine announced the fourth expansion to Lord of the Rings Online, named Riders of Rohan.  The expansion which will be released in the fall of 2012 and will bring with it a level cap increase, new locations, mounted combat and much more.  Executive Producer, Kate Paiz, stated that Riders of Rohan will be the largest [...]

LotRO: Update 5: The Prince of Rohan Release Date Announced

Posted on Dec 08, 2011

The date for the next content update to Lord of the Rings Online has been announced by Turbine today and is December 12th. Update 5: The Prince of Rohan will continue the games epic story line and adss five new Isengard instances. The update will also introduce the new instance finder to help players find groups faster. One [...]

LotRO Instance Finder Coming: So Hot Right Now

Posted on Nov 14, 2011

That damn instance finder is so hot right now (I don’t know, Zoolander just gOt into my head so I had to) that Turbine has decided to add one for Lord of the Rings Online in their upcoming Update 5 content update. Along with the instance finder, update 5 will continue the Epic Book story-line focusing on Theodren [...]

Turbine’s Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest Kicks Off

Posted on Oct 19, 2011

It’s that time of year when Turbine fans can take knives to pumpkins in search of Turbine points, special titles and a special in game pet if you’re playing Asheron’s Call! From October 18th until November 5th, you can send in photos of game-themed pumpkins to celebrate spooky Halloween. Photos must be original works, no [...]

Rise of Isengard Giveaways

Posted on Sep 28, 2011

To celebrate the Rise of Isengard, the new expansion for the Lord of the Rings Online, Zam has joined together with Turbine to offer a great giveaway. Win a pair of new Tritton headsets to use when playing your game of choice, plus 20,000 Turbine points, and 2 keys for lifetime memberships to LoTRO! Sign up [...]

Rise of Isengard the Best Selling LOTRO Expansion Yet

Posted on Sep 27, 2011

It seems the switch to the free-to-play business model is working well for Turbine as it was announced today that the third Lord of the Rings Online expansion, Rise of Isengard, is the best selling Lotro expansion to date. Although no specific sales figures have been released yet, Turbine did mention that pre-purchases fueled the record breaking [...]

LOTRO Fails to Launch in China After 5 Years

Posted on Sep 15, 2011

In a recent financial press release, CDC Corperation, the company that licensed the exclusive rights to distribute Lord of the Rings Online in China, reported that not only had it failed to launch the game, but they spent $10 million dollars doing it. Finally after five years, Turbine announced the delay constituted a breach of contract and has [...]

Lotro: The Gap of Rohan Video Developer Diary

Posted on Sep 09, 2011

Today Turbine released a new video developer diary previewing more content coming from the next Lord of the Rings Online expansion Rise of Isengard.  The diary focuses on The Gap of Rohan and how it will introduce epic scale instances where thousands of NPCs roam and fight against each other as the player journeys through the area. While [...]

LOTRO: Rise of Isengard Beta Key Giveaway

Posted on Aug 18, 2011

We have some good news for MMOCrunch readers.  Turbine was kind enough to send us 5 Rise of Isengard beta keys for their upcoming Lord of the Rings Online expansion to giveaway to our readers. Normally we would setup a giveaway page to give out the keys, however since we have a very limited number of them, [...]

Lord of the Rings Online: Tower of Orthanc & Rohan Revealed

Posted on Jul 27, 2011

Turbine today released the first screenshots of the Tower of Orthanc and the Gap of Rohan for the upcoming Lord of the Rings Online expansion, Rise of Isengard. The next expansion for LotRO will be released on Sept 27th and will open up three new areas, the Gap of Rohan, Isengard with the Tower of Orthanc, which were [...]