Turbine Will Self-Publish 'The Lord of the Rings: Middle-Earth Online'
by Rainier on March 22, 2005 @ 11:04 a.m. PST | Filed under News
Turbine announced today that it has finalized a deal with Tolkien Enterprises and Vivendi that grants Turbine the exclusive right to develop and publish massively multiplayer online worlds based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit literary works. As part of the agreement, Turbine will own all of the game assets to the upcoming, highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role playing game The Lord of the Rings: Middle-Earth Online, which is now scheduled for 2006.