Now we will have to take seriously this giant in the making. Amazon Games announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Middle-Earth Enterprises, which belongs to the Embracer Group, to develop and distribute the next game based on the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.
A good blow for the video game branch of Amazon that had already managed to afford the next tomb Raider designed by Crystal Dynamics, a studio already owned by Embracer, as well as Blue Protocol from Bandai Namco Online and Throne and Liberty, an NCSOFT project, which will also be distributed by Amazon. If your studios have only a few games under their belt, Amazon Games’ publishing arm continues to offer big-name games and partners.
A canceled game finally revived
Set in the Middle-earth universe, the upcoming open-world multiplayer game (MMO) will build its story around the original trilogy of Lord of the Rings as well as stories of The Hobbit. The creation of the game was entrusted to the Orange County studio of Amazon Games, to which we already owed The new World, the first big success of the e-commerce giant. The future game will be released on consoles and PC.
It is a rather paradoxical situation for Amazon, which explained last year that it canceled its MMO around the license after three years of work because of Tencent. Because the game was going to be developed by the Leyou studio and published by Amazon Games, but the former, meanwhile, has been bought by the Chinese giant that would have sought to derail the matter, “complicating things very clearly”, according to Hartmann. Enterprises of Middle Earth, holder of the rights of Lord of the Rings, He then played a clause stipulating that in the event one party took control, the deal could be cancelled.
According to the vice president of Amazon Games, Tencent and Amazon were “too big to work together” and each could have managed the project on their own. Patience is the mother of all virtues, as they say. It took the storm to pass to relaunch a game that should delight fans of the saga and of a genre in which Amazon Games is beginning to make a name for itself after Lost Ark.
One more size on the hunting board
The works of JRR Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) have already given birth to more than thirty video games, including the following The Lord of the Rings: Gollum hits consoles and PC on May 25. This action and adventure game will follow the story of Gollum, eight years before his well-known appearance in Lord of the Rings. The Embracer and Amazon Games opus is yet to be titled, but it promises to be “immersive and captivating” throughout Middle-earth.
This partnership is far from coming out of the blue. If in the field of video games, Amazon is trying to make a name for itself at high speed, its legitimacy is no longer there to prove itself in the cinema. And it was Amazon Studios that produced the hit series. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, streaming on Prime Video. If the events of the series take place in the second age of Middle-earth, those of the game will have no relationship, Amazon Games already emphasizes.
as with tomb RaiderAmazon has video game size in its pocket, short of such an iconic franchise. But the hunting board is starting to look good.
Source: BFM TV
