Amazon cancels Lord of the Rings massive multiplayer game

Amazon Game Studios has announced its previously announced plans for a Lord of the Rings massive multiplayer online game and threw it straight into the fires of Mount Doom. In 2019, Amazon’s gaming division announced that it was launching a Lord of the Rings game in partnership with China-based Leyou Technologies, but after Leyou was acquired by gaming giant Tencent in December 2020, plans appear to have gone through. According to Bloomberg, the ‘resulting contract negotiations led to a dispute between Amazon and Tencent that eventually led to the cancellation of the game’, with an Amazon spokesman confirming: ‘We have not yet been able to obtain the terms to continue with this title . ‘ News from the Lord of the Rings the cancellation of the game took place one day after the reports that Amazon was coming Lord of the Rings series costs $ 465 million. Now we will never play a Tom Bombadil Dance Dance Revolution mini-games.

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