Casual Stroll to Mordor

Turbine’s maintenance is still going as of writing this post, there is no ETA for when we can all play again. Things don’t need to be so doom and gloom while we wait for our favorite MMO.

It appears that something happened in the middle of the night (on the East coast) to affect Turbine’s services. Not only is LOTRO down but all of Turbine’s web sites and other games seem to be affected.

Another Lord of the Rings game was announced at E3 this year. The game is called Guardians of Middle-Earth and allows two teams of five to battle it out to see who would win in an arena style fight.

The announcement trailer for LEGO Lord of the Rings has been released and it brings humor and drama to the Moria scene.

CNN’s Geek Out blog has a new article out today called “The migratory patterns of MMO gamers”. In the article the author, Nikki Rau-Baker, talks about the pattern of MMO players to leave their game to try another game.

Just a friendly reminder that tonight is our in-game party / live broadcast of episode 50 event! I hope people are able to come out and participate in all the great games Fionnuala has planned and hear us live as we record.

This Saturday we at Casual Stroll to Mordor are going to throw an in-game party while we live broadcast episode 50 as part of our First Anniversary Celebrations! Everyone is invited to join us!

Newly released on Friday is a new defragmenting tool for your LOTRO Dat files. It works sorta like your computer’s defrag tool optimizing your dat files for quicker access. According to Bunsen, this will result in your game loading a bit faster and speeding up your teleports. It will also reduce hitching.

This weekend I went to U-Con to geek out and play The Lord of The Rings Strategy Battle Game with Talbot of Landroval (who has a blog post up concerning the event that you should read as well).  And I have to say that it was a ton of fun!  I felt badly about leaving [...]

The release of movies centered on your favorite fantasy world is a double-edged sword.  With such releases, if they’re popular enough, you’ll see thousands of products released by different companies.  Some of these products are inevitably disappointing, but some are true gems which bring new life to a world that you love to visit.  Lord [...]