A Casual Stroll to Mordor

The new community site was launched back in September 2010. Over a year later and we’re still in beta.

As with any information from Bullroarer, this is beta and prices, appearances and store content may change by the time Rise of Isengard is released. It looks as if the LOTRO Store will be getting an update to its user interface when RoI launches later this month. Here are a few highlights from my most [...]

Isengard heralds in not only a new tier of crafting, but also a new tier of reputation for Crafting Guilds. In this article, we take a look at a way for players to start working towards the reputation requirements.

Your screenshots could be featured on CSTM as well! Join the Share Your LOTRO Screenshots Flickr group and submit your screenshots.

If you had to guess, when do you think Rise of Isengard will enter into open beta?

With Rise of Isengard, we will be seeing some changes to virtues. The cap will be changing from rank 10 to rank 12 and because of the way certain stat changes are being implemented, we’ll be seeing a change in what many virtues do.

After testing the LM changes on beta I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised with the changes. It seems like the devs went through all the LM skills and attempted to fix all the little annoying features of the class.

In the latest episode I briefly went over the changes of the Lore-master, once again proving how the deeper intricacies of the class evade me! However, thanks to Iinferno we were able to get a bit more information about the pet, how it looks and its function.

CSTM met with Senior Producer Aaron Campbell at PAX Prime to preview the Rise of Isengard.

What do you say to a huge dragon who has a lot of gold and invites you into his lair so he can “share” it with you? Well, I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

A message from @LOTRO just popped up with a chance for followers to win one of 25 beta keys for Rise of Isengard!

Massively is also running a 24 giveaway for their 10 Rise of Isengard beta keys. To enter visit their giveaway page and leave a comment.

Ten Ton Hammer has a new giveaway regarding the Rise of Isengard Beta. They have a number of beta keys to giveaway that will allow your account to access the Beta now! Also, the contest is only open for 24-hours so if you’re interested go now!

This week we talk about the announcement of closed beta starting, new screenshots of Dunland, weekly store specials and more!

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Today Turbine has announced that The Rise of Isengard beta will begin on July 27th (although the annoucnement says August, it is a confirmed typo).

I met Abarsai a week or two into Beta, one of our pastimes was attempting to get out of the designed game world. Of course we just wanted to explore and let them know about the bugs. I did bug them!

Sapience posted that the North American server names have been chosen and that they will be available starting September 8th!

Fast Mounts at Level 6? Festival and Faction mounts removed from the store? An interesting look at mounts in the Beta as we creep closer to Free-to-Play’s release.

A Dev Diary written by Ransroth was released today concerning the upcoming changes to the vault system with the upcoming release of Free-to-Play on September 10th. There have been quite a few changes to the system about which people may find themselves conflicted; I know I was

Today we take a look at several of the LUA plugins that have been written by Beta Players during the Free-to-Play testing period.

This was our special anniversary episode where we are celebrating our first year of blogging! This podcast was live broadcast during an in-game event so there are bits of derailment and distractions from the fun activities happening in game.

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It has been a couple weeks of the NDA being lifted so everyone has had some time to read through and digest some of the information of what is currently in beta.

This is our Beta Roundtable that was recorded Tuesday, August 3rd. We have with us five special beta testers who agreed on very short notice to talk about their experiences. We appreciate them taking the time to share their adventures in the beta so far.

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