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Lord of the Rings trailer breaks download record
News The trailer for forthcoming fantasy trilogy Lord of the Rings has smashed Internet download records after being released onto the Internet in April, it was reported Monday. Although the first instalment of Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the...
[June 19, 2000, 13:07]
Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II demo
Downloads Wage war in the North and assume command of the most storied civilizations in all of Middle-earth history--the Elven and Dwarven armies--or fight on the side of Evil with heroes and creatures that have never been seen in The Lord of the Rings films.
[February 9, 2006, 23:59]
Stronghold Lord of the Rings map pack
Downloads This is a custom map pack for Stronghold based on the universe created by J.R.R Tolkien for the Lord of the Rings books. There are 31 different scenarios with two difficulty settings for each.
[June 29, 2004, 6:44]
Zeno: The robot based on Lord of the Rings AI
News Zeno is based on character technology from New Zealand's Massive Software, which also won an academy award for the software it developed for the Lord of the Rings movies. It is also wirelessly connected to the network so it can take advantage of...
[March 6, 2008, 11:14]
New Lord of the Rings site aims to please masses
News The promotional website for the most eagerly awaited fantasy film of the new millennium Lord of the Rings was relaunched by New Line Cinema early Friday, in anticipation of the first episode's debut later this year.
[January 12, 2001, 9:59]
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Downloads Tolkiens classic fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings; The Return of the King video game will put the fate of Middle-earth in the hands of the gamer. In the final installment of the blockbuster movie trilogy, players must destroy the One Ring by...
[March 29, 2004, 8:00]
Business uses for Lord of the Rings AI software
News Diane Holland, chief executive officer for Massive Software — the company that provided the AI software used in the fight scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies — discusses the robotics and business applications of the software.
[March 7, 2008, 17:07]
Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II Gollum Skirmish mod
Downloads In skirmish battles of LOTR:BFME II, it can be very annoying when the enemy declares ""they have the ring"" and get it back to their fortress before you have a chance to react. This mod greatly improves Gollum's AI so that 90 percent of the...
[March 16, 2006, 10:31]
Fixed / Mobile Convergence - Who Will Be Lord of the Rings?
White Papers There are many different ways to approach the challenge of fixed-mobile convergence and, as often, the approach depends on one's initial starting position or viewpoint. As the mobile industry is so regularly referred to as an ecosystem, one way to...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Australian ISP still battling US copyright claim
News The New York-headquartered MediaForce sent an email to Australian Internet network provider Comindico demanding an individual allegedly offering download copies of the movie "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" over the Internet have their access...
[February 5, 2003, 9:00]
Neverwinter Nights LOTR Sons of the Steward Campaign
Downloads This is a large custom campaign for Neverwinter Nights that takes place in the realm of Middle Earth and the Lord of the Rings stories. Included are several familiar characters such as Boromir, Faramir and Sauron, as well as places taken straight...
[April 15, 2004, 2:32]
Planet-Tolkien runs rings around Gmail
News Planet-Tolkien is a themed Web portal offering resources on Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based email product with 1 gigabyte of storage -- a trend that kicked off in late...
[May 28, 2004, 8:45]
Game makers face 'Rings' rivalry
News It might not be as colourful as Sauron versus Gandalf, but a battle is shaping up in the game industry over "The Lord of the Rings". Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" books. The Lord of the Rings' is a pretty big franchise," Olhava said.
[December 21, 2001, 10:34]
Apple files colourful patent
Talkback why spoil the surprise -- i managed to avoid anything about Lord of the Rings until the third installment had arrived, I then was able to see all three successivley, and it was great (not knowing anything, not having read the books).
[August 17, 2004, 21:53]
The best video from CeBIT 2008
News We capture the best of it on video, from software controlled by brainwaves to a robot based on the same AI engine that drove the fight scenes in Lord of the Rings. CeBIT's 30-plus exhibition halls were packed with technology this year.
[March 7, 2008, 16:25]
South Korea's games target growth
News Webzen and Gravity, two of the leading online gaming companies in Asia, are gearing up to bring their "Lord of the Rings"-type multiplayer games to a worldwide market. Gravity chairman Jeong-ryul Kim pointed out that 72 percent of his company's US...
[June 25, 2004, 14:30]
Collaboration crossing industry borders
News And while the game and the film by the hit-making "Lord of the Rings" director didn't come out on the same date, the releases were close enough to be seen in the two industries as a tandem launch. When Peter Jackson's new film "King Kong" opened...
[December 16, 2005, 15:05]
The Week in Review: Fooling the tech industry
News Some of the hoaxes going around were just plausible enough, and just enough lacking in humourous content, that they passed as real news, like the erroneous report that the next Lord of the Rings film would be postponed to May.
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
Actor dispatches Amazon's 1-Click patent
News The patent was challenged by Peter Calveley, a New Zealand actor whose credits include appearances — digitally remastered — among Sauron's evil armies in The Lord of the Rings films. The US Patent and Trademark Office has demolished Amazon.com's...
[October 19, 2007, 17:21]
