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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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Why Shadow of War's Shelob is a woman - a theory

Talking to Eurogamer, Monolith's creative vice president Michael de Plater has tried to explain why Shelob has foregone her giant spider form in order to appear as a dressed-up Liv Tyler lookalike. The cause for this may be a lot simpler than Monolith would have you believe.

AUGUST 17

What Shadow of War can learn from Mordor's Bright Lord DLC

Shadow of Mordor's Bright Lord DLC plays like a very thin vertical slice for Shadow of War, but there is one thing in particular that it does way better than the base game - tightly focused storytelling.

AUGUST 10

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War will have orcs in loot boxes

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War will have a loot box microtransaction system along with an obligatory multiplayer invasion-like vendetta mode and a similar social conquest mode for fortress assaults, because otherwise microtransactions wouldn't make any sense or money.

AUGUST 7

Look behind the scenes of Shadow of War voice acting - Agonizer

The latest trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of War offers a look behind the scenes of video game voice acting work and introduces a new orc character, The Agonizer. The wannabe comedian and orc chieftain is voiced by Kumail Nanjiani.

JULY 28

Shadow of War will be lighter on your PC than expected

Middle-Earth: Shadows of War has apparently had some optimisation work done to it, according to the updated hardware requirements for the game. It should now be a little lighter on your rig. In addition, some story bits have been revealed about a certain evil thing in spider-form.

JULY 24

Shadow of War might be near impossible to balance, which is good

With more and more features of Middle-earth: Shadow of War being revealed as the release date draws closer, it is becoming increasingly obvious that all of the game's systems will be a nightmare to balance. For once, this may actually turn into an advantage for the game.

JUNE 29

Will Shadow of Mordor saves transfer to Shadow of War?

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was last patched in October 2016 for PlayStation 4 Pro purposes and the latest patch is a bit of a mystery, since no official announcement came along with it. Save files transferring to Shadow of War are still a rumour at this point.

JUNE 20

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War just got a story trailer

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War just got a story trailer and it's fine. Revenge, drums, a few new characters and some horrible lip-sync animation; more or less what we have come to expect recently. It looks a lot like a trailer for some Hollywood movie, but this is a story trailer, so that is ok I guess.

JUNE 8

New Shadows of War trailer showcases environments

Some new footage from Middle-earth: Shadows of War has arrived today showing some of the game's environments that stretch beyond Mordor, with Hollywood-style ambiguous voice-overs to spice things up.

MAY 17

Why disclose when you can "leak"?

Hype is cheap, reliable, self-perpetuating and most importantly, has a very generous gap between risk and reward. But why is the video game industry becoming so fond of the practice? Well, hold on to your posterior, as we dive into the swamp of mildly substantiated clarification.

MAY 17

Middle-earth: Shadow of War stronghold takeover gameplay

A more intricate Nemesis system and much bigger scale

MARCH 9

Middle-earth: Shadows of War footage leaked

Redditor screencaps leaked trailer footage

MARCH 6

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