Amazon is engaged on a web based recreation separate to the Lord of the Rings prequel sequence.
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A Lord of the Rings on-line recreation is coming, and it is being co-produced by Amazon Recreation Studios and Leyou Applied sciences’ Athlon Video games label. The massively multiplayer on-line recreation primarily based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien will likely be free to play, with a launch date but to be set.
Amazon Recreation Studios, launched in 2012, makes video games together with New World, The Grand Tour Recreation and Crucible. It has studios in San Diego and Orange County, California, and at Amazon’s HQ in Seattle.
The brand new recreation will likely be set in Center-earth throughout the unique Lord of the Rings trilogy and is separate to the Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings sequence, which is a prequel.
Alex Xu, CEO of Leyou, mentioned he wished to work with Amazon for its “buyer obsession, know-how, and proficient groups.”
There’s a “robust management group” in place to push ahead the brand new recreation, Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Recreation Studios, mentioned, with the studio additionally rising its group to construct the sport.
“Tolkien’s Center-earth is without doubt one of the richest fictional worlds in historical past, and it offers our group of skilled MMO builders — from the identical studio growing New World — super alternative to play and create,” Hartmann mentioned Wednesday.
The announcement comes a month after Amazon Recreation Studios laid off staff “to prioritize growth of New World, Crucible and new unannounced tasks we’re excited to disclose sooner or later.”
