MMORPG.com writer Adam Tingle has been on a quest to find great free-to-play games. Delving into our site's Game List, Adam has spent time playing F2P games, both good and not so good. This week, Adam takes time to look at Lord of the Rings Online, recently turned F2P by Warner Interactive and Turbine. See what Adam thinks of Middle Earth in its newest incarnation and whether or not it is worthy of your time.
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Arena.Net devs will be on hand for next week's New York Comic Con. In addition to showing off Guild Wars 2 during the October 8-10th event, devs are inviting anyone in the area to attend an after-hours Meet and Greet party on October 8th. The party, sponsored by NCSoft, will also feature the Aion, City of Heroes, and Lineage II teams as well. There will be prizes and attendees will have a hands-on chance at the GW2 demo.
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Everquest II playerws will have the opportunity to create as many characters as they wish...for a price. Beginning October 5th, players will be able to purchase extra character slots in the Station Marketplace. There is no limit to the number of slots one can buy and the purchase is permanent.
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DS retained the top spot on the Japanese hardware sales chart during the week ended September 26.
The DS line of handhelds moved 89,199 units, with first placed DSi accounting for more than half of the sales.
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Denmark Street in scruffy Camden, north London, isn't the first place that springs to mind when you think of game development. Lined on both sides by guitar and drum shops, and having hosted recording sessions from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles - the Sex Pistols even lived here for a spell - the road is imbued with the spirit of rock 'n' roll and rebellion, not score multipliers and extra lives.
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Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro says he’s working on multiple game projects with publisher THQ.
"We're working together," he told MTV. "Hopefully everything will come together in the next few days and we can formally announce it and so forth. But we are talking about huge games, huge world creation and long deadlines.
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Yesterday publisher SouthPeak Interactive delayed the US release of Two Worlds II until January, saying it wanted the game to be "absolutely flawless" when it launches, but the suggestion that it’s in an unfinished state hasn’t gone down well with co-developer TopWare Interactive.
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Format: DS, PS3, PSP, Wii (version tested)
Release: October 29
Publisher: Warner Bros
Developer: Headstrong Games On balance, Tolkien turns out to be a better storyteller than Samwise Gamgee. Tolkien's stolid mix of prose and verse may not be to everyone's taste, but from it was born a modern myth, the grandeur of which had not been seen since the Viking sagas. Sam's retelling of it in
Aragorn's Quest, meanwhile, is largely about hitting things. Hitting things and trying to stop your attention from drifting.
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Pokémon Black & White held the top spot on the Japanese software chart during the week ended September 26.
Fresh from moving over 2.5 million copies to set a new first week sales record in Japan, second week sales came in at 828,580 units.
Sega’s Black Panther Yakuza New Chapter was a new entry in second place, shifting 174,213 copies in its debut week, according to Media Create sales data (via Andriasang).
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata yesterday pledged to help third parties succeed on 3DS.
Addressing concerns that only first party software can sell well on Nintendo platforms, the executive said: "It is true that the third party software sales ratio on Nintendo platforms are comparatively smaller in Japan. Wii's third party software ratio is especially low."
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