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Chinese version of LOTRO to launch in September
08.16.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

CDC Games, which operates a number of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), including EVE Online, in the People’s Republic of China, has completed a successful closed beta test for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.
Features, Humor
If LOTR Had Been Written By a Game Developer
08.11.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 3 Comments

“Frodo!” Gandalf cried, as the old man rose up suddenly proud and strong like an elf king of old. “The armies of Mordor stand at the gates of Minas Tirith! Rohan has fallen, and Erebor is is besieged! The hour is late, and the Ring must be destr—is that really a Silmaril?”
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Watch out, Easterlings — Lord of the Rings Online to launch in China
06.29.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

Shanghai, China’s CDC Games will launch a local version of Turbine’s The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (aka LOTRO) by the end of the year. LOTRO, a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on Tolkien’s novel, was launched in North America in April 2007 by the developer, Westwood, Massachusetts-based Turbine. As of February of this year, the game had 300,000 subscribers.
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LOTRO: Building Khazad-dûm
11.05.08 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

I was fascinated by this “Developer’s Diary” about the creation of the Mines of Moria. The author describes the design decisions that went into creating the virtual Dwarrowdelf, and the new software necessary to create cavernous interior spaces.
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More fun from the Kunochan archives
10.03.08 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

I have a couple of old LOTR-related stories on my other blog.
LOTRO Announces One Million Open Beta Accounts: A Play In One Act By Kunochan
“Lord of the Rings Online” — Kuno’s First Impressions