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Amazon 'Lord of the Rings' Game Canceled: Why Is It Scrapped? Amazon has failed to bring make the beloved movie series "Lord of the Rings" to a gaming franchise. Photo : Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Amazon has failed to bring make the beloved movie series "Lord of the Rings" to a gaming franchise. The company announced its project in 2019 until it was scrapped due to trouble with contract negotiations between Amazon and Tencent, the would-be game developers. Amazon "Lord of the Rings" Game Canceled: Why? According to MSN, Amazon had a deal with Leyou Technologies, a China-based game develo...

Amazon cancels 'Lord of the Rings' massively multiplayer online game ANI | Updated: Apr 19, 2021 14:10 IST Washington [US], April 19 (ANI): Amazon has announced that the company's video game division has cancelled its massively multiplayer online role-player based on 'The Lord of the Rings'. As per Variety, while Amazon is shelling out a whopping USD 465 million for season one of its 'Lord of the Rings' TV adaptation, the company's games unit has cancelled plans to send players to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In 2019, Amazon Game Studios had announced ...

Dispute with Tencent scuppers project. Updated on 17 April 2021 Amazon has cancelled its Lord of the Rings MMO. Bloomberg reports the game, which was announced in 2019, was scrapped over a dispute between Amazon and Chinese mega-corp Tencent. Eurogamer news cast: the improvements the PS5 desperately needs In July 2019, Amazon's game development arm, Amazon Game Studios, revealed it was co-developing a new free-to-play MMO based on JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Amazon was working with LA-based developer Athlon Games - a subsidiary of Chinese...

The game's cancellation apparently came after a disagreement with Tencent.

Apr 18, 2021 04:43 EDT In 2019, Athlon Games announced to have partnered with Amazon Game Studios to develop the Lord of the Rings MMO. This made sense, as Amazon was already making the new Lord of the Rings television series. Only a few months ago, a rather detailed development roadmap mentioned early 2023 as the target window for the Lord of the Rings MMO Open beta. However, it appears that once Tencent acquired Leyou in late 2020, a contractual dispute between Tencent and Amazon led to the sudden project's termination. An Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg: We have been unable to secu...