Amazon is co-developing a free-to-play Lord of the Rings MMO

Amazon's game development arm, Amazon Game Studios, has revealed that it's co-developing a new free-to-play MMO based on JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

As keen-eyed observers may have already twigged, this is the same free-to-play massively multiplayer online title that was announced last September.

Back then, LA-based developer Athlon Games - a subsidiary of Chinese publisher Leyou Technologies, owner of Warframe developer Digital Extremes and Splash Damage - revealed that it was creating the experience in conjunction with a mysterious "partner developer". Which we now know to be Amazon Game Studios.

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