Amazon hurled its Lord of the Rings MMO back into the fires of Mount Doom By Jessica Conditt May 14, 2026 4:25 pm EST The Lord of the Rings MMO in development at Amazon has been cancelled, but there's still a Tolkien-based something on the way, Eurogamer reports. …
Amazon has reportedly cancelled its Lord of the Rings MMO, according to sources familiar with the project. …
… In a memo explaining the layoffs’ impact on the company’s gaming division at the time, Steve Boom, head of Amazon Games, Twitch, and audio, wrote, “We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work — specifically around MMOs — within Amazo… …
… As for the Lord of the Rings MMO, that team "had like three people on it for the longest time," according to one source, "before they started moving New World devs to Lord of the Rings - and then everyone got laid off ." After much speculation, this source confirmed to Eurogamer that Amazon's The L… …
