{"id":854664,"date":"2026-08-11T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854664\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:42:09","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-war-in-the-north-legacy-edition-launches-today-more-franchise-re-releases-planned-games-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854664\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Rings:\u00a0War in the North \u2013\u00a0Legacy Edition launches today; more franchise re-releases planned \u2013 Games Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks like Lord of the Rings games are back on the menu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aspyr has today launched The Lord of the Rings:\u00a0War in the North \u2013\u00a0Legacy Edition, an improved version of Snowblind\u2019s 2011 original, while casually mentioning that more older games based on The Lord of the Rings are set for a re-release through Warner Bros. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord of the Rings:\u00a0War in the North\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Legacy Edition offers co-op hack \u2018n slash action for up to three players online or two players in local split-screen, playing as Eradan, Andriel, and Farin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New features include character hot swapping, refined target locking, the ability to seek secrets, an improved UI that now shows party stats, an auto save function, and gyro support for the PS5 and Switch\/Switch 2 versions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screen5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The Lord of the Rings:\u00a0War in the North \u2013\u00a0Legacy Edition launches today; more franchise re-releases planned\" class=\"wp-image-65789\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Switch version won\u2019t have local co-op or run at 60fps, however. It isn\u2019t expected until next week (18th Aug) on the EU Switch eShop either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The price for this re-release \u2013 which, curiously, isn\u2019t referred to as a remaster \u2013 has been set as $19.99 with a 10% launch discount until 24th August. It\u2019s out now on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam, GOG and Epic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2011 original debuted to wildly divisive reviews, resulting in a 61% Metacritic. This may be the reason why Apsyr chose to stealth-launch this one, helping to pave the way for more cherished entries. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like Lord of the Rings games are back on the menu. Aspyr has today launched The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-854664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}