The Gollum game went down so badly that the studio is getting out of the game making business, while rumors for various remakes abound.

  • yata
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    1 year ago

    How did such a small company attain the rights to a Tolkien title in the first place?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know any details, but AFAIK they got lucky because the licensing company for LOTR, Middle-earth Enterprises, had been in a tug-of-war between media giants like Amazon, Time Warner and (later) Embracer for years when they struck the deal. I assume it was much easier for the company to greenlight relatively small deals for niche games with a smaller partner like Daedelic.