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Amazon and Leyou will make a Lord of the Rings PC and console game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amazon Game Studios will collaborate with Hong Kong-based Leyou Technologies and Middle-earth Enterprises to develop and publish a free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game based on the milestone fantasy literary work The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

No release date has been set for the game. The game is part of a major bet that Amazon is making on Tolkien’s work, as Amazon Studios is also creating an Amazon Original TV series based on The Lord of the Rings for Prime Video unrelated to the game. That show will be based on the Second Age, or the period in the literary history that precedes the events of The Lord of the Rings.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.