Casual Stroll to Mordor

This episode we talk about the big announcement of Helms Deep, update 11 on bullroarer, upcoming changes to the LOTRO site, player council and more!

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Last month LOTRO announced the details an open applications for the first player council. The council is to act as direct player feedback and comments on game ideas to Turbine for one calendar year.

Turbine has announced today their fifth expansion Helm’s Deep!

Just a reminder that as part of the Anniversary Festival we will be getting double experience starting today and lasting until April 21st.

LOTRO will be celebrating their 6th year as an MMORPG and are giving presents away to players as a thank you.

Turbine’s LOTRO team is hosting their next Developer Twitter Chat.

These few write ups are intended to help new players starting out in Lord of the Rings Online, but I’m also hoping a few older players will find it helpful as well.

Yesterday some of the Turbine team took some time out of their busy day to answer some questions via Twitter.

This week’s poll is all about the recent downtime we experienced and how much many of us missed LOTRO.

Just a very quick post to let you know that the game servers are up and available to play!

Turbine does know that players are very disappointed and Sapience has come to the forums today to let us know of compensation they are planning for premium and VIP players to the game.

LOTRO is hosting their third Developer Twitter Chat. As promised in the last dev chat, they do have a PVMP dev on hand to answer questions.

With today’s extended Turbine downtime (it’s 24-hour maintenance in case you weren’t aware) I thought some of us might be looking for some extra reading material. So we are asking you to share your blog with us. Do you have a blog about LOTRO, gaming in general, or perhaps about Tolkien and his stories? Do [...]

A producer’s letter by Executive Producer, Kate Paiz, was published today with some insight on Turbine’s plans for 2013 for LOTRO.

Sapience appears in the latest Community Update video to talk about the recent Developer Chat via Twitter, Bullroarer opening this week with Update 10, and to have his beard shaved as a result of their efforts with Extra Life.