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Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War

Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War lets the player forge a new Ring of Power and take over Mordor with their personal army of Orcs.

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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey boost controversy

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is garnering positive reviews across the board and Ubisoft even poked fun at EA for controversial microtransactions. Are Ubisoft blameless in the whole story though, as they have MTX in a singleplayer game?

OCTOBER 13

Middle-earth: Shadow of War DLC arrives

Middle-earth: Shadow of War got its Slaughter Tribe Nemesis Expansion pack. The pack brings the Slaughter tribe, new missions, a new fortress theme and more. Additional free updates are part of the not-so-free portion of the content.

SEPTEMBER 24

FIFA18 pulls off retail chart hat-trick

FIFA 18 is at the top of the UK sales charts third week in a row. Warner Bros now have a total of three titles in the top 10. Destiny 2 is out of the top five for the first time since it launched, surprising no one except maybe Bungie.

SEPTEMBER 21

Middle-Earth Shadow of War removes loot boxes

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War's latest update has brought about a plethora of changes to Monolith's game, including the removal of microtransactions, which means that the game is finally doing away with all the pay-to-win mechanisms.

JULY 18

Middle Earth: Shadow of War DLC parachuting

Middle Earth: Shadow of War's DLC Desolation of Mordor has a new trailer showcasing some of the new features, characters and gameplay. Monolith Productions may have gone overboard with this one, thanks to canon breaking parachutes.

MAY 9

EA chose to be mature about Battlefront II

EA's freshly appointed chief design officer Patrick Söderlund has wasted not time in putting a positive spin on the fiasco that was Star Wars Battlefront II, even going as far as pretending they were the victims. What, we took their jobs?

APRIL 13

Shadow of War ditching microtransactions

Even though Monolith's latest forum post mostly echoes what the Middle-earth: Shadow of War's player base has been droning on about since launch, it's certainly never too late to hear about developers who are ditching microtransactions.

APRIL 3

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Xbox One X ready

Warner Bros. just released an Xbox One X update for Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The update will let you choose between two enhanced modes that Shadow of War offers for the console.

NOVEMBER 7

Call of Duty WWII rules the UK sales chart

Call of Duty WWII launched on 03 November. The game has now reached the top of the UK sales chart. Assassin's Creed Origins got a fresh update and got demoted to number two. Super Mario Odyssey now at number four.

NOVEMBER 6

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War's Denuvo cracked

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War's Denuvo software was cracked in less than 24 hours. At the end of September Total War: Warhammer 2 was cracked in only eight hours. Players have found that certain games performed worse due to the inclusion of Denuvo, as was the case with recent releases like Sonic Mania.

OCTOBER 12

UK gamers have started a petition for loot box regulation

Concerned individuals are petitioning the UK government to consider regulation for loot box systems in video games. The rationale behind the petition is that various loot box systems represent a form of gambling embedded into video games and should be regarded as such by the law.

OCTOBER 11

Do Balrogs fit into loot boxes? - New Shadow of War trailer

The latest bit of promo material for Middle-earth: Shadow of War teases the less sentient and more primal creatures inhabiting the game's world. It also rekindles the age old question of "Can a fire be put out by dry leaves?"

AUGUST 21

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