Pandemic Studios developing new Lord of the Rings game

24 Comments by Ludwig Kietzmann Feb 13th 2008 9:30AM

An EA analyst report and meeting (via ShackNews) has revealed that Pandemic Studios is developing a new Lord of the Rings title. The studio, which was recently acquired by EA along with BioWare, continues to work on the twice-delayed destruction-fest, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

Little is known about Pandemic's journey to Middle-Earth, save for EA CEO John Riccitiello's announcement that it will release during the publisher's 2009 fiscal year -- somewhere between April 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009. You'll know more when we know more.

Tags: BreakingNews, EA, Lord-of-the-Rings, LordOfTheRings, LOTR, Mercenaries, Mercenaries-2, Pandemic, Pandemic-Studios

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Jeff: Feb 13th 2008; 9:45AM

Let's hope it's not like the multi-platform licensed movie games that came out when the films did.

Dustin: Feb 13th 2008; 9:50AM

I actually thought they were pretty fun. Good hack-and-slash romps, anyways.

But not The Fellowship of the Ring... no, not that one... ugh...

I imagine this game will be much more action-oriented and focused on a single character... flush out a backstory, etc...

StrangeBum: Feb 13th 2008; 9:56AM

@ Dustin

Yeah. I enjoyed them quite a bit too. Although Fellowship was pretty bad, the second and third were fun.

Also, it's 'anyway' there is no such word as 'anyways'.

farfisa: Feb 13th 2008; 10:17AM

I liked RotK.
Anyhoo, they could really do anything with that world and somebody'd buy it.

SAGExSDX: Feb 13th 2008; 9:47AM

absolutely brilliant caption! i love it!

samfish: Feb 13th 2008; 9:50AM

Someday, Ludwig, when your time has come and you're standing before the pearly gates to have your life judged by St. Peter, they're going to look back on this blog posting. And despite all the good you've done in your life, including that time when you single-handedly saved London from the Super Nazis in 2024, they will look upon that awful pun and send you straight to Hell.

FOXHOUND: Feb 13th 2008; 10:02AM

+1

LoL ... he's like a real-life Magilla Gorilla with some of these puns. XD

Zertoss: Feb 13th 2008; 10:06AM

/r/ Justin call Ludwig "Magilla" throughout the next podcast.

Ludwig Kietzmann: Feb 13th 2008; 10:56AM

"I bet you hobos wish you were home more and not home LESS."

Oh, Magilla. I'm not THAT bad (yet).

Kendall B: Feb 13th 2008; 10:09AM

It's actually been a while since the last sub-par LoTR game. I look forward to not playing this.

baby sea tuna: Feb 13th 2008; 10:14AM

That pun made me weep.

And I mean that in the nicest way possible.

Martez: Feb 13th 2008; 11:01AM

The only reason that awful pun worked is the expression on Gandalf's face. Well done, Ludwig.

foamking: Feb 13th 2008; 11:11AM

Best. Pun. Ever.

J: Feb 13th 2008; 11:38AM

It could be related to the Hobbit movie. (pt 1 is supposed to release in 2010).

JohnMazz: Feb 13th 2008; 11:48AM

I see what you did there...

Who am I kidding, that was a great caption.

WhY sO seRIouS: Feb 13th 2008; 11:49AM

despite reading in silence, i physically made noise in regards to the pun. thats the power of the media.

enjoy:

Lord of the Rings Two Towers Defense
http://www.fyrebug.com/displaygame.php?gameid=2123

KaNineteen: Feb 13th 2008; 12:01PM

Could this be based on the two new movies based around the hobbit?

Jerk Face: Feb 13th 2008; 12:31PM

Every single time someone crits an orc when my friends and I play Dnd, it is absolutely mandatory that someone says that line. Really.

LiK: Feb 13th 2008; 12:36PM

HAHAHAHAHA! that pic of Gandalf just made my day. Nice job. ^^

bender: Feb 13th 2008; 5:04PM

That is my new favorite pun.

Ihavepants: Feb 13th 2008; 6:26PM

So it's not the Australian Pandemic working on this?

mrlogical: Feb 13th 2008; 9:18PM

Adam Sessler just straight stole your whole "Now that's what I'm Tolkien about" followed by an acknowledgement of the badness of the joke thing on XPlay tonight. I guess it's good to know his writers read your blog and like your jokes, right?

t_m: Feb 13th 2008; 9:55PM

I just want a singleplayer version of LOTRO.

I wanna run around pretty environments and imagine i'm in Middle Earth... but i don't want to pay a monthly fee to do it.

D-Train1183: Feb 14th 2008; 12:13PM

Pandemics doing it huh? So we'll get to play in what? 2012?

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