The Lord Of The Rings MMO Reportedly Scrapped, However Amazon Confirms A ‘New Recreation Expertise’ Set In Center-Earth Is Coming

Amazon Video games has confirmed it’s engaged on a “new sport expertise” set within the The Lord of the Rings universe, following experiences final October that it had scrapped its The Lord of the Rings MMO based mostly on the epic fantasy sequence.

Amazon’s gaming boss, Jeff Gattis, issued the next assertion to Eurogamer after they acquired new particulars in regards to the cancellation of the MMO. And, whereas he didn’t outright verify or deny that the Lord of the Rings MMO was shelved, the writing is just about within the wall at this level.

Our inventive staff continues to discover a compelling new sport expertise that does justice to Tolkien’s world; we’re working carefully with Center-earth Enterprises and stay excited in regards to the IP.

As beforehand reported, The Lord of the Rings MMO was scrapped following plenty of layoff on the studio in October 2025. Amazon Video games introduced on the identical time that it was stepping away from engaged on MMO titles. The Lord Of the Rings MMO was introduced in 2023 and was a collaboration between Embrace Group and Amazon Video games, with New World creators Amazon Studios Orange County dealing with core improvement of the mission.

A supply instructed Eurogamer additionally said that “over 1,000” individuals have been transitioned to The Lord of the Rings staff within the months previous to Amazon’s determination to convey lively improvement of New World to an finish. The supply added that Amazon was “ramping everyone off New World” and onto the Lord of the Rings MMO because the layoffs occurred.

“Once they obtained the license [Amazon] instantly introduced it was making it earlier than speaking to any builders,” stated the supply, including, “for a few years” the corporate solely had “one or two individuals engaged on it as a facet mission.” Nonetheless, simply “a single idea artwork” was made each couple of months, described as “normal idea artwork that didn’t warrant the time.” Lastly, they added that the time when workers have been being moved onto the Lord of the Rings staff was “when it was really going into pre-production.”

This isn’t the one time that Amazon Video games has tried an MMO based mostly on The Lord of the Rings. Again in 2019, the corporate introduced that the mission was within the works for PC and consoles with Amazon Video games Studios and Leyou Leisure engaged on it. Nonetheless, in April 2021, it was revealed that the sport had been cancelled.

[Source – Eurogamer]