{"id":37255,"date":"2025-11-01T06:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/amazon-cancels-its-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-again\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:31:55","slug":"amazon-cancels-its-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/amazon-cancels-its-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cancels its Lord of the Rings MMO again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dataconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amazon_scraps_Lord_of_the_Rings_MMO_for_good.jpeg\" alt=\"Amazon cancels its Lord of the Rings MMO again\" title=\"Amazon cancels its Lord of the Rings MMO again\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon has reportedly canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO, significantly halting its work on such games.<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon executive announced the company is discontinuing \u201ca significant amount\u201d of its MMO development. This decision has affected the Lord of the Rings MMO, a collaborative project with Embracer.<\/p>\n<p>A former senior gameplay engineer for Amazon Games stated on LinkedIn, \u201cThis morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y\u2019all would have loved it).\u201d Rock Paper Shotgun reported on this post; LinkedIn displays \u201cthis post cannot be displayed\u201d when accessed directly. Neither Amazon nor Embracer provided immediate comment. The Lord of the Rings game remains listed on the Amazon Games website.<\/p>\n<p>Following the layoffs, developers of New World: Aeternum, an internally developed Amazon MMO, confirmed no new content updates would be released for the game. Its servers will remain active through 2026. Amazon spokesperson Brittney Hefner informed The Verge the company will continue supporting two published MMOs: Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark.<\/p>\n<p>The canceled Lord of the Rings game with Embracer, initially announced in 2023, marked Amazon\u2019s second attempt at an MMO within the LOTR universe. The first LOTR MMO was unveiled in 2019 and subsequently canceled two years later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO, significantly halting its work on such games. An Amazon executive announced the company is discontinuing \u201ca significant amount\u201d of its MMO development. This decision has affected the Lord of the Rings MMO, a collaborative project with Embracer. A former senior gameplay engineer for Amazon Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technologies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}