According to hiberner toujours in a ResetEra post, industry veteran and project lead for The Witcher, Ryszard Chojnowski, claimed on the Tolkien Polska – Podcast that Warhorse Studios is working on the previously rumored Lord of the Rings game. Toujours also referenced a previous report from Insider Gaming stating that the project has $100 million in funding from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office. According to that report, the game is a third-person action title.
However, according to a new report from Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw, who initially reported on the project, citing “those close to the game’s development,” the game is actually being developed by Crystal Dynamics. Straw noted that while the Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio could be working on their own Lord of the Rings project, Crystal Dynamics is allegedly the developer of this particular project. The report noted that Embracer Group declined to comment on these claims.
According to a since-deleted LinkedIn post last year by former Senior Gameplay Engineer at Amazon Games Ashleigh Amrine, the MMORPG based on The Lord of the Rings has been cancelled while it was still in development. “This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y’all would have loved it),” wrote Amrine. While Amazon has yet to confirm these claims, it wouldn’t be a surprise following New World content updates coming to and end and mass layoffs at the company. The MMORPG was first announced back in May 2023 and was being developed by Amazon Games Orange County.
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