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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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Those that play Lord of the Rings Online were probably already aware that Siege of Mirkwood will be getting an update soon in the form of Volume 3: Allies of the King, Book 1: Oath of the Rangers.

But now, you can check out some screens for it.

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The Siege of Mirkwood expansion for Lord of the Rings Online has gone live.

Time to saddle up your elf, human or dwarf (hobbits don’t count) and venture forth past Lothlorien into the foreboding forest of Mirkwood and smash Sauron’s army to bits. Huzzah!

Those who play, should check out all the development diaries and patch notes while the game updates, because there’s quite a few changes, and a really awesome new mount system.

There’s also a launch trailer posted below, courtesy of FileFront.

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Turbine sent over new screenshots for The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood.

The images depict the new Chambers Instance in Mirkwood, which looks harrowing.

December 1 is the day kiddos, get ready.

Pics are passed the break.

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Siege of Mirkwood is out on December 1, and there will be a new solo mode for players – like yours truly- who have not finished the epic quest line for Volume One due to being unable to find groups to tackle the content.

Because the game has been out for such a long period, higher level players not wanting to delve back into something they have already finished. Therefore, newer players or ones who have for one reason or another not finished the quest line – yours truly – are skipping it.

Riding in on a sturdy white horse from Book 15 comes Turbine to the rescue with the upcoming “Inspired by Greatness” mode.

The new mode enables players to solo these quests and in turn get a significant boost to morale/power, in and out of combat morale/ power regeneration, damage, and healing, according to MMORPG.

Great to hear, that.

In order to get you excited for the very large patch headed players’ way, new screens for the game are after the break, and feature the Ashenslades region deep in the forest of Mirkwood.

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This was a rather large week in MMOs as far as news went, and not all of it was Halloween related.

Past the break you will hear all about how Ultima Online is still going strong, get familiarized with the new patch for Aion, read up on Cryptic’s Blood Moon event via a dev chat, PvP henchmen and Guild Wars, Alganon’s delay, China’s ban on males playing females in games, and many other bits of stuff that didn’t hit the front page during the week.

Also, we hope everyone who plays MMOs enjoyed the Halloween and Fall festivities that their particular favorites hosted. Loads had celebrations, more than likely every single one of ‘em. If we forgot to mention your particular game, head on over to the list through the link ther and add it in the comments section so that we may give it its proper shout-out.

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Turbine has sent over some really nice screens for LOTRO’s Siege of Mirkwood expansion.

Looks like when exploring the Scuttledells region, adventurers will be faced with wrights, spiders, gaunt men, and those annoying craban that you just want to smash into mush.

The expansion comes out digitally in December. Have a look past the break.

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Turbine has released a video for Siege of Mirkwood, the upcoming expansion to Lord of the Rings Online.

It looks rather fatalistic, to be honest.

Slated for release this December, the conclusion to Volume II: The Mines of Moria has players under the command of Lothlorien’s Celeborn and Galadriel, where you must fight through vast armies of Orcs alongside the Elves in a battle that will take you to the gates of Dol Guldur, the fortress of the Ringwraiths.

This update includes Book 9 and the Epilogue to last year’s expansion.

Wonder how many times we’ll get to hear the Ringwraiths scream?

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Codemasters has unveiled The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion deals, which start today.

Set to launch December 3, here are the different offers available:

Siege of Mirkwood Standard Edition £14.99 / 19.99 €

• Siege of Mirkwood expansion
• Harbinger’s Cloak (8% speed boost) for FREE!

Siege of Mirkwood Special Edition £19.99 / 27.99 €

• Siege of Mirkwood expansion
• The Adventurer’s Pack
• Harbinger’s Cloak (8% speed boost) FREE!
• New, unique mount FREE!

Platinum Edition £29.99 / 39.99 €

• The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, Mines of Moria™ expansion and the Siege of Mirkwood expansion
• Harbinger’s Cloak (8% speed boost) FREE!

Platinum Special Edition £34.99 / 49.99 €

• The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, Mines of Moria expansion and the Siege of Mirkwood expansion
• The Adventurer’s Pack
• Harbinger’s Cloak (8% speed boost) FREE!
• New, unique mount FREE!

Further packages will also be available including:

• The Adventurer’s Pack £4.99/ 6.99 € Includes two character slots and one shared storage providing 20 additional slots that allows players to share items with all of their characters on the same server.
• The Loot Bag £4.99/ 6.99 € – Includes ten special in-game items especially selected from all items ever released

For more information and to pre-order the game please go here.

Not a whole lot this week in MMOs that didn’t hit the front page – still, there’s still some news past the break.

Read on to find out more about changes in the Legendary System and Skirmishes to Lord of the Rings Online when Siege of Mirkwood is releases.

Also, while scanning through the bullet organizes updates, you will find information on crew member jobs for Star Trek Online, a release date for EVE Online: Dominion, and how families who play MMOs can keep safety in mind when letting children play online.

It’s all ahead. Click onward.

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[UPDATE] Massively has been informed by Turbine that the name RoR is NOT confirmed for the expansion and is contacting Gamerzines to get this fixed. Bummer. We’re going to go cry in our corner now.

Turbine’s Adam Mersky has confirmed to Gamerzines the plan for a Riders of Rohan expansion for Lord of the Rings online.

Apparently, Siege of Mirkwood will conclude Volume II: Mines of Moria, with Volume III ready at the gate.

“Volume III will kick off with our first content update of 2010. With our expansion this year we’ve changed the model; you can still expect to receive regular (free) content updates, but they may not map directly to the launch of a new Epic Story. The story will progress and proceed.”

He went on to confirm the RoR expansion which will be separate from Volume III (unnamed as of yet) and is slated for release sometime in 2010.

This should make the Riders of Rohan kinship on the Nimrodel server extremely happy.

Thanks, Massively.

Quite a bit of stuff regarding MMOS this week.

CrimeCraft will go free-to-play, Turbine released new screens for Siege of Mirkwood, Green Arrow is making his way into DC Universe online, there are a couple updates on World of Warcraft movies, and a whole other bunch of stuff happened too.

Read on past the break for the lot.

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Turbine has unveiled The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion deals, one of which is the lifetime membership deal of $199.

There is also the Adventurer’s Pack, which is a nice preorder incentive and includes a special cloak that give you and 8 percent speed boost, a special goat mount and two extra character slots.

Also, any current or former player who renews or upgrades their subscription to any multi-month plan by October 31 gets the Siege of Mirkwood free.

Siege of Mirkwood is a digital expansion only and will run you $19.99 or as a bundle with the LOTRO Adventurer’s Pack plus a new mount for $39.99 on December 1.

Full thing through the link.

Some footage from PAX showing off Turbine’s latest addition to The Lord of the Rings Online, has popped up over on YouTube.

Granted, it’s not developer released material, but from what we can see it looks flipping fabulous.

Can’t wait to run through it this fall.

Watch on after the break.

Thanks, LotroLife.

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Turbine has announced that Siege of Mirkwood, a digital expansion to Lord of the Rings Online: The Mines of Moria, Volume II, will be released this fall.

Siege of Mirkwood will expand the online world of Middle-earth where players will join forces go into the dark, creepy, spider infested forest of Mirkwood where the conclusion to Volume II will take place.

The download includes anincreased level cap, the fortress of Dol Goldur, enhancements to combat and Legendary Items and the introduction of Skirmishes, a new system where players will train customizable soldiers and take them into battle as part of the War of the Ring.

Details regarding pricing, preorder offers and availability will be unveiled soon.

Sounds great. Hopefully we will be able to meet the elves of Mirkwood as well – that’s where Legolas is from ya know. Mirkwood is also close to the Lonely Mountain and the Beorens so who knows what the future has in store for players of LOTRO.

Hopefully something very cool.

Full press release below.

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