The Lord Of The Rings game is being developed by the games division of Weta Workshop and being published by Take-Two subsidiary Private Division.The title will be “set in the literary Middle-Earth universe of J.R.R.
Tolkien,” with Middle-Earth enterprises giving the Weta Workshop game studio “the broadest creative license to interpret the underlying lore of the books.”Weta Workshop is known for its visual effects work on The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, alongside Netflix’s The Witcher and Stranger Things.
Weta’s game division was founded in 2014, and its website says it has worked on content for all major platforms, alongside Disney and Nintendo.We’re thrilled to announce that we have partnered with @WetaWorkshop to publish a new game set in the literary Middle-earth universe of J.R.R.
Tolkien. We look forward to sharing more about the project in the future! pic.twitter.com/z9HxvXe7Da— Private Division (@PrivateDivision) August 15, 2022That said, the exact scope, genre and style of Weta’s upcoming Middle-Earth game remains to be seen.
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