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Shadow of War becomes Kiss of the Spider Woman

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The developers of Middle-earth: Shadow of War have been talking up the ability to build an Orc army and take over the great fortresses of Mordor. But Shelob, the female spider woman who is a key part of the story, might very well steal the show. Her job, it seems, is to make the story of the video game as interesting as the hack-and-slash combat.

At San Diego Comic-Con, Warner Bros. and developer Monolith revealed more details of the story in a trailer. The game debuts on October 10 on the Xbox One, Xbox One X, Windows PC, Steam, and PlayStation 4.

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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.