Tag: Turbine
10 Years Ago Today, Dungeons & Dragons Online Set The Stage For Free-to-Play’s Future
Ten years ago today, MMOBomb was born. Well, not technically – the site officially went online in April of 2011, 20 months after September...
LotRO Fans Get Reassurance From Middle-earth Enterprises
Lord of the Rings Online fans have faced this question before: Will our game shut down? In days past, it was the nebulous threat...
LotRO (Again) Promises Better Loot Boxes For Update 23
Standing Stone Games is getting with the times with regards to loot boxes for The Lord of the Rings Online. In this case, "getting...
New F2P Lord of the Rings Online Game Coming From Leyou Technologies
Six months ago, we learned about Athlon Games, a new development company created by Leyou Technologies, which owns Warframe developer Digital Extremes and Dirty...
(UPDATED With SSG Response) LOTRO Experimenting With Putting Dungeon Gear In Lockboxes On Test...
UPDATE: Standing Stone Games has responded to player feedback on this controversy. In a message on the forums, Severlin states: Our goal is that you...
LOTRO Composer Chance Thomas Releases Commemorative 10th Anniversary Soundtrack
If you can't get enough of the soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings Online, you're in luck. Composer Chance Thomas and his recording...
LotRO Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary With Several Trips Down Memory Lane
The Lord of the Rings Online turns 10 years old this month -- and Standing Stone Games is throwing one heckuva bash to celebrate. It...
MMOBomb’s Free-to-Play Predictions For 2017 — And Readers’ Predictions From 2016
I copped out last year. I admit it. When I did my sort-of-annual tradition of making end-of-year predictions for the F2P gaming space, I...
MMOBomb’s Top 10 Free-To-Play Gaming News Stories of 2016
All the memes say 2016 was a lousy year in the real world. In the free-to-play world, things were ... well, sometimes good and...
Turbine Hands LOTRO and DDO To New Dev Company; MMOs Will Be Published By...
So much for the pre-Christmas slow news week. "The game teams responsible for The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) and Dungeons & Dragons Online...
LOTRO’s CM Says Game Will Continue Past 2017 — And Then Video Is Removed
Over the weekend, a video surfaced of The Lord of the Rings Online's Community Manager, Jerry "Cordovan" Snook, making some emphatic statements regarding the...
Mordor Confirmed: LotRO Will Take Players There In Expansion Next Year
We speculated on it earlier this year -- and heck, players have been speculating about it for nearly 10 years -- but Turbine made...
LotRO Brings Players To The Edge of Mordor In Cinematic
Lord of the Rings Online players have been wanting to get to Mordor for over nine years now, and that moment is tantalizingly close....
LotRO Producer’s Letter Teases Update 19, Improved Housing, And Mordor Expansion
Dungeons & Dragons Online Executive Producer Dan "Severlin" Ciccolini has expanded his role at Turbine, now taking over the same position with The Lord...
DDO Producer’s Letter Outlines Plans For Two More Updates Before The End Of 2016
The Dungeons & Dragons Online team is going to be pretty busy for the rest of the year if the latest Producer's Letter is...
DDO Update 32 Pits Adventurers Against The Slave Lords
Dungeons & Dragons Online gets a meaty content boost today, with Update 32: Against the Slave Lords, which is now live. Players can embark...
LotRO’s Annual Community-Run Harnkegger Games Return In September
Last year's Harnkegger Games in The Lord of the Rings Online were such a success that the folks behind them are doing it again...
Turbine Has Something “Big” Planned For Mordor In LotRO
Earlier this week, Turbine's Robert “Severlin” Ciccolini gave Dungeons & Dragons Online something to celebrate by revealing a few tidbits about the game's future...