{"id":124955,"date":"2022-05-10T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124955"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:05:13","slug":"ea-announces-the-lord-of-the-rings-heroes-of-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/124955-ea-announces-the-lord-of-the-rings-heroes-of-middle-earth","title":{"rendered":"EA announces The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ea.com\/press-releases\/press-releases-details\/2022\/Electronic-Arts-Partners-with-Middle-earth-Enterprises-on-the-Development-of-Upcoming-Mobile-Game-The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Heroes-of-Middle-earth\/default.aspx\">partnered<\/a><\/strong> with Middle-earth Enterprises to develop The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth, a new free-to-play mobile game.<\/p>\n<p>Heroes of Middle Earth\u2019s beta testing will begin \u201cthis summer\u201d but will be regionally limited.<\/p>\n<p>Capital Games, the development team behind Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, will be working on the new title.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a Collectible RPG that will offer players a \u201cstrategic, social-competitive experience\u201d set in J.R.R Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings (LotR) universe.<\/p>\n<p>Players will battle in the most iconic stories from the LotR universe using turn-based combat, in-depth collection systems, and an expansive list of characters from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe combination of high-fidelity graphics, cinematic animations, and stylised art immerses players in the fantasy of Middle-earth where they\u2019ll go head-to-head with their favourite characters,\u201d said EA Vice President of Mobile RPG Malachi Boyle.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the freedom that Amazon is taking with its The Rings of Power TV show, Middle-earth Enterprises Chief Brand &amp; Licensing Officer Fredrica Drotos ensures fans that they are working to bring them \u201ca mobile game solely inspired by Middle-earth as described in the literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124951-new-xbox-products-will-stream-games-and-entertainment-to-your-smart-tv-report\">New Xbox products will stream games and entertainment to your smart TV \u2014 Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA has teamed up with Middle-earth Enterprises to develop a new RPG set in Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[26157,175,26158,419],"class_list":["post-124955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-capital-games","tag-ea","tag-middle-earth-enterprises","tag-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}