Amazon has reportedly cancelled its second attempt at developing a Lord of the Rings MMO, following a new round of layoffs at Amazon Games. The news came from former senior gameplay engineer Ashleigh Amrine, who revealed on LinkedIn that she and others working on the project had been let go (via Rock Paper Shotgun). This comes shortly after Amazon also …
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Watching the current White House and its various lackeys/minions/catspaws attempt to wrestle with “memes,” as an artistic format, has been a little bit like watching a dog try to aim and fire a machine gun: Bizarre, darkly amusing in a sick sort of way, and ultimately likely to end in tragedy. We’ve been tracking, for instance, the Trump administration’s recent …
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Amid reports Amazon has ‘gutted’ its video games division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts earlier this week, one former developer has suggested its Lord of the Rings MMO has also been cancelled. On Tuesday, Bloomberg shared an internal memo to staff from Steven Boom (Amazon’s vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Game) announcing “significant role …
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Amazon have cancelled their second attempt at a Lord Of The Rings MMO as part of recent mass layoffs, according to a now-former senior gameplay engineer at Amazon Games. The engineer in question is Ashleigh Amrine, who announced that she had lost her job on LinkedIn yesterday. “This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, …
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Elijah Wood knows a thing or two about rings. The actor, who played the hobbit Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s popular “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy, recently returned to “The Shire,” which is located in New Zealand’s Waikato region and a popular wedding location for those who want to get married with a Middle-earth theme. On the day …
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A new Lord of the Rings game is in development and is a third-person action game designed to “compete with Hogwarts Legacy,” according to a new report. Insider Gaming said it heard from sources close to the project that the unannounced and untitled game is funded, in part, by the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), to the tune of around …
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The price the NHS pays for medicines will need to rise to stop a wave of pharmaceutical investment leaving the UK, science minister Patrick Vallance has said. His comments follow several recent announcements from some of the world’s largest drug companies either pausing or scrapping UK projects. Critics in the sector say low prices for new drugs, a lack of …
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The LA Kings began the 2025 Golden State Rookie Faceoff with an 8-5 defeat against the San Jose Sharks in a game played at the Anaheim Ducks practice facility in Irvine, CA. The start to the game for the Kings couldn’t have gone much better, as they found the back of the net four times in the opening period to …
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LOS ANGELES — The union that represents tens of thousands of actors and other entertainment and media professionals has elected Sean Astin as its new president. On Friday, SAG-AFTRA elected Astin — an actor who appeared in “The Lord of the Rings,” “Stranger Things” and “Rudy” — to succeed Fran Drescher as its president. Astin is the son of the …
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Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Friday elected “The Lord of the Rings” actor Sean Astin to be its national president as one of Hollywood’s most powerful labor unions faces new challenges in a changing film and TV industry. Astin, known for portraying Frodo’s loyal hobbit friend, Samwise Gamgee, in the Peter Jackson-directed fantasy trilogy, now …
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