{"id":261356,"date":"2025-10-30T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261356\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:21:10","slug":"amazon-has-reportedly-canceled-its-lotr-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261356\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon has reportedly canceled its LOTR MMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cThis morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y\u2019all would have loved it),\u201d a former senior gameplay engineer for Amazon Games said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/ashleighamrine_opentowork-gamedev-activity-7388971058642522112-H2mY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on LinkedIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/amazon-have-reportedly-cancelled-their-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a>. (For me, when I try to see the post, LinkedIn shows a message that says \u201cthis post cannot be displayed.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon and Embracer didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment. As of this writing, the LOTR game is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazongamestudios.com\/en-us\/games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still listed<\/a> on the Amazon Games website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">After the layoffs were announced, the developers of New World: Aeternum, an MMO Amazon developed in-house, said they would no longer be providing new content updates for the game, though its servers will stay live through 2026. Amazon will continue to support two MMOs that it publishes, Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark, company spokesperson Brittney Hefner told The Verge this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The planned Lord of the Rings game with Embracer, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23723787\/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-mmo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2023<\/a>, was Amazon\u2019s second run at an MMO in the LOTR universe; the first MMO was revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/7\/10\/20688736\/amazon-game-studios-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-athlon-games-leyou-free-to-play-tolkien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2019<\/a> before being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/17\/22389533\/amazon-canceled-lord-of-the-rings-game-tencent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">canceled two years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[960,88,559,3,172,74],"class_list":["post-261356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}