Jonathan Steinhauer continues his application of the writings of Clausewitz to gaming, this time examining what happens when you have to turn and run.
Previews
Looks at games before they launch.
The Lord of the Rings Online lorebook has been updated with a profile of one of the High Elves of Rivendell, Cachúnir. Check him out after the jump.
This time on RoleCraft, Jim Moreno wants to hear from you roleplayers out there.
Turbine announced that the Public preview server now has Book 14,The Ring-forges of Eregion, out and ready for download.
You can find more information about it here.
Our friends over at Stratics have let us know about an EU dev chat scheduled for tomorrow:
Join us tomorrow, the June 25th at 12:00pm PDT/3 pm EDT/8 pm BST in the #straticshoc channel on the Stratics IRC network for another great LotRO EU Stratics House of Commons chat!
You can find all the details about how to connect at their site.
Turbine let us know about their scheduled maintenance:
All Turbine services will be down on Monday June 23th from 7:00am - 11:00am Eastern (-4 GMT) for maintenance. During this time the game, billing and authentication servers will be offline. In addition, all Turbine forums will be viewable, but players may not be able to log into their accounts.
The news is also in their game launchers, so you'll be reminded Monday morning!
Turbine's taken a closer look at another set of residents of Middle-earth, the Guant-lords:
In the First Age, Morgoth summoned many fell spirits into his service and twisted countless creatures to his will. Among those were dire creatures called Gaunt-men, which had the power to instill other fell spirits into the remains of the dead and raise them as wights...
Click below to read more about these evil beings!
Turbine has just released a new developer diary video for The Lord of the Rings Online in which Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel describes all of the new content that was recently added to the game with the launch of Book 13: Doom of the Last-king. Video's after the jump.
In this installment of RoleCraft, Jim Moreno looks at an interesting idea from WoW RP Realms: Full Immersion Roleplaying (FIRP).
Jonathan Steinhauer continues his study of Clausewitz and examines the art of the kill.






