… Amazon's now-canceled Lord of the Rings MMO would have been the second Middle-earth MMO on the market, with Daybreak's The Lord of the Rings Online still enjoying a sizable player-base 19 years after its initial launch. …
Amazon has reportedly cancelled its Lord of the Rings MMO, according to sources familiar with the project. As Eurogamer reports, the cancellation occurred shortly after layoffs last October that impacted Amazon's Games division. …
… The slow cancellation of Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO is especially ironic considering the Lord of the Rings Online is still going strong after nearly 20 years . …
… Around that time, a former senior gameplay engineer apparently posted and then deleted a LinkedIn message alluding to the death of the Lord of the Rings MMO while breaking our hearts even more : "This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games alongside my incredibly talented peers on New Wo… …
… Andrej Barovic May 14, 2026 2:21 pm Image via IMDb/New Line Cinema Amazon’s in-development The Lord of the Rings MMO, not to be confused with the existing The Lord of the Rings Online , has been canceled, according to reports. …
… 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… …