Casual Stroll to Mordor

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

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

Thurinphir from CSTM’s Steam Group posed this question about LOTRO’s future and how Turbine might depict it. Specifically he is asking about Minas Tirith in Gondor and what sort of access us as players will have to it.

Last month Turbine hosted their annual Pumpkin Carving Contest and today the winners were announced!

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Thursday, November 1st from 7:00 – 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game.

In case you haven’t been keeping up with the kerfuffle on the forums, there has been an issue involving twitter that caused Turbine to shut down the Dev Tracker on the forums.

The site Boston.com is reporting that today Turbine has laid off a number of individuals have been laid off as a “part of a restructuring at its parent company, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.”

Turbine is once again hosting their Pumpkin Carving Contest.

This week we talk about Rohan, horseshoes, festivals, lawsuits and unigoats. All while playing freeze tag in-game! We are so talented!

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The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, October 15th at 6:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for the release of Update 8: Riders of Rohan!

Riders of Rohan launches on Monday! Today we get a little taste with series of official screenshots released by Turbine depicting the new landscapes we are about to receive.

The fine folks at Turbine have shared with us one LOTRO Lifetime Account to be granted to the winner of this auction.

The LOTRO Game Servers and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Monday, October 8th from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT).

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, October 1st from 7:00 – 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game.

Released today were some new screenshots depicting enemies found on the Riders of Rohan landscape.