Tales of the Shire is part of the Tolkien universe.
Tales of the Shire is part of the Tolkien universe.
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Tales of the Shire is the cozy side of Tolkien | preview impressions

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I got a demo of Tales of the Shire, a cozy game about Middle-earth’s Hobbit community. It’s coming this year from Weta Workshop.

And while it’s a game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books, I don’t think you have to worry about the Dark Lord or nasty orcs coming to ruin the countryside. This is a sweet game set in the town of Bywater, not so far from Bilbo Baggins’ Hobbiton, and they’re both part of the idyllic and perhaps only peaceful part of Middle-earth, the Shire.

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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.