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CES 07: The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar Impressions

Gamespot has updated their site today with their impressions of Lord of the Rings Online from CES.

At CES Turbine showed off mounts for the first time and explained how travel will be accomplished throughout the game. The Lord of the Rings Online will launch with a world that's 30,000 square miles in size, which is humongous. After the first time you travel to a new location, you'll be able to fast-travel to that point, which means you'll automatically ride a mount to that location. If you have more money, you can purchase your own mount and ride anywhere you wish. The mounts thus far include horses and ponies for the tiny hobbits.

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Jeffery Steefel Talks With FiringSquad

FiringSquad had a chance to talk to Jeffery Steefel recently. Keep reading to see what they were able to learn...

FiringSquad: First, Turbine has been working on this game for a while now. Overall, how do you feel the game is coming along at this point?

Jeffrey Steefel: The Beta Program is in full swing and the game is looking fabulous. Our team is busy at work updating and polishing the game based on feedback from Beta players. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and LOTRO is definitely shaping up to be an epic game that will satisfy hardcore and casual fans alike.

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Ten Ton Hammer / LotroSource's interview with Turbine CEO Jeff Anderson

John "Methost" Irwin interviews Turbine CEO Jeff Anderson on our LotroSource site.

"Can you tell me the difference between a CEO for a game company and a CEO or any other company?"

I think being a CEO of a game company is standing between a lot of different competing objectives, you've got creative talent who are passionate about the art and the work they are building, you've got the technology challenges of trying to get a platform to support customer service and billing and authentication, you've got an
engineering challenge and trying to get a game engine, physics and all that working, you've got a team of designers and artists who are creating content, you've got the business people who need to be doing distribution deals worldwide. I could describe it as being in charge of making a feature film, where you are designing the camera and the film and the actors all at the same time, so it is a complex business and MMORPGs are at the tip of the spear."

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A launch-day preview of the latest EverQuest II expansion from SOE

MMORPG.com has posted a look at Echoes of Faydwer today as it launches. Keep reading to see their last minute thoughts...

Playing EverQuest II's Echoes of Faydwer is a trip down memory lane for EverQuest players. Echoes of Faydwer also brings a new player race to EverQuest II, the winged fairy folk known as the Fae, providing another more visible aspect for player customization, the wings of the Fae, as well as a new facial customization option that allow you to shape and size the face using sliders.

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