Casual Stroll to Mordor

This week we talk about the newly announced Steed of Minas Ithil, the new naming violation policy, contests and more!

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Codemasters will be getting the latest patch for Echoes of the Dead tomorrow, Thursday. Servers will go down at 08.00 and be back up at 15.00 hours, UK time (BST).

Spring is here and the festival is in full swing and Codemasters is celebrating with a screenshot contest!

Installation of Echoes of the Dead has been completed on Codemasters servers. All worlds are now online and ready for use!

Codemasters has been able to test the hotfix launched by Turbine yesterday and have announced that Echoes of the Dead will launch on their system tomorrow!

Codemasters has finished QA on the Echoes of the Dead content and it is cleared to launch tomorrow, March 22nd, 2011. Downtime is listed to last from 8am to 3pm GMT.

Codemasters is having a screenshot contest for Bullroarer Took Day like Turbine and you can win some points for the store!

Codemasters as announced a new competition called “Play to Win” for some prizes.

Starting today (March 3rd) through Monday, March 7th, Codemasters players are experiencing a Welcome Back Weekend. The welcome back weekend adds a 10% experience boost to all monster kills in game.

Here is a contest just for our European friends! I have in my possession a code worth 1000 points on the Codemasters LOTRO system.

Codemasters is having a double bonus point weekend from February 4th – 7th. These bonus point sales are where we see the best value for points available. Note that these prices are in Euros!

Last week Sincilbanks had posted on the Codemasters Community Blog about their new stance on restoring hacked accounts and today Codemasters has announced that The Hacked Account Restart Programme (or as I’m calling it, H.A.R.P.) has officially launched.

Codemasters has started gathering nominations for their 2011 Community Awards. It is a chance for Codies players to recognize their fellow players for their contribution to the LOTRO community.

There were polls up earlier this week that allowed players to choose which quest pack would be going on sale this Saturday, January 22nd for 75% off! Turbine and Codemasters each held their own polls and here are the winners!

Today Codemasters has announced the winner of their 100,000 Points Giveaway Contest!

Sincilbanks posted on the Codemasters Community Team Blog, May Contain Gamers, about the new Hacked Account Restart Programme.

“Tell the Community Team” is where Turbine asks for the players to give them direct and specific feedback about a specific topic.

Both Turbine and Codemasters are having double point promotions on their Turbine Points Bundles. These points bundles are the best deals we see for Turbine Points so this is the time to buy!

I don’t live overseas so I had to first look up what VAT was. It basically is the same as sales tax here in the U.S. Taxation on goods and services for the European Union. Because this law changed, Codemasters had to change their pricing.