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Warner Bros. has announced a new way to get your LotR geek on; a community of War in the North fans called the Council of the North. Join the ranks of hardcore fans, and you’ll be rewarded with insider information and exclusive assets – and we have one such trailer, to show you what the plebs miss out on.

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Warner has released a new video and some screenshots for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and it is looking more and more like the gritty tale that fans have reveled in for decades.

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Turbine has revealed that profits for Lord of the Rings Online have tripled since the game went free-to-play back in September.
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All we have to say regarding that is: THANK YOU and hooray.

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Snowblind has put out a new trailer for Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and it’s called Untold Story, which is rather fitting.

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Warner Bros. and Turbine opened the gates to Lord of the Rings Online  yesterday in North America, making the game free-to-play for everyone.

Early access folks shouldn’t feel so alone now.

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Codemasters has delayed the European free-to-play launch of The Lord of the Rings Online in order to better prepare its infrastructure for the massive influx of new and returning players.

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Snowblind and Warner released the gamescom video for Lord of the Rings: War in the North today.

Watch orcs get their heads lobbed off below.

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Warner has put out a video and some screens for Lord of the Rings: War in the North.

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Turbine has been acquired by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which will now give it complete control over all future Lord of the Rings games made.

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Snowblind, the folks that brought you Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, announced today that it and Warner Bros. are working on a new Lord of the Rings title, called War in the North.

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A lot of the mainstream MMO news was posted up during the week, so this isn’t as thick as usual.

There’s bound to be something in here for you, though. Read on for the full thing.

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Turbine has announced that the Volume 2, Book 7: Leaves of Lórien update for Lord of the Rings Online can be downloaded a few days early from the official site.

Scheduled to go live on Tuesday, March 17, North American, Australian and New Zealand can get the patch ahead of schedule. No word on European players.

More information over on Massively.

Warner has taken the gaming rights contracted to EA back for the Lord of the Rings franchise according to Variety, and has no plans to renew the contract.

Originally, the license was set to expire at the end of March 2007, but was extended through 2008 so EA could finish up LotR: Conquest. The deal was also signed by Tolkien Enterprises.

It’a been suggested that the reason Conquest was generally panned was due to EA rushing Pandemic to finish before the contract expired. However, now Warner is itself becoming a major player in the game industry, it is safe to assume that any console releases will be handled by them in the future, says that report.

A Warner Bros rep declined to comment to Variety, but it is worth noting that Warner holds the rights to the Harry Potter franchise too — and that EA’s contract for all games muggle- and wizard-related doesn’t expire until 2011.

More through the link.

Turbine just released the first batch of screenshots for LotRO’s Volume II: Book 7: Leaves of Lόrien.

This will be the first free content update for the game since its Mines of Moria expansion was released last fall.

The screens illustrate Lothlόrien, which has been expanded for Book 7′s storyline.

Quite lovely. Take a gander here.

Loads of goings on in the world of MMOs, as usual. Let us make sense of it for you.

This week’s had its fair share of content updates, a closed beta, character testing, teaser screens, and an MMO set near the Grand Canyon, in the future, after a plague. Honestly.

Read on after the jump.

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First bits on Pandemic’s Lord of the Rings game are starting to filter through.

Apparently it’s similar in gameplay to Star Wars Battlefront, with a bent towards multiplayer. It was described to us as “Battlefront with orcs.”

People in the US are starting to see it now, but we’ve still no word on whether or not it’s actually any good.

The project was first announced in February.

Likelihood of EA making a song and dance about this at E3: high.

According to this, EA-owned Pandemic’s been confirmed as working on a new Lord of the Rings title. The info was revealed in yesterday’s investor activity with the publisher.

Absolutely no details on this at all, but we’re assuming this is the same game announced along with EA’s third quarter financials recently.

Among the ton of info to come out of yesterday’s EA investor call following the release of the company’s third quarter financials, was first mention of a new Lord of the Rings title based on the company’s exclusive deal with movie outfit New Line.

No details were given on the game at all, but the news sees the first game emerge from the deal since Lord of the Rings, The White Council was put on indefinite hold. There’s no release date for the new, unnamed titles as yet.