But under the headlines, past the spreadsheets and contractual obligations, were 17 people, who, since developing EA’s PC-based strategy game “Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth” in ...

While those games were fun, they lacked something. The battle between good and evil raging across Middle-Earth wasn't only fought by heroes like Aragorn and Gimli but by men trying to save their ...

Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth and its sequel weren’t strategy games that set the world aflame, but they were two of the better titles to come out of the old licensing deal.

Over the next few weeks before the release of Battle for Middle-earth II, we'll be bringing several enlightening pieces of information about the various races in the game, including three large ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth will be a real-time strategy game based on the blockbuster motion pictures. It's also a game ...

Battle for Middle-earth I and II were two excellent RTS games in which the armies of Tolkien's iconic fantasy setting vie for supremacy, with the assistance of hero units from the books and films.

The team is now back working on a sequel, Battle for Middle-earth II, which will be built out with the full library of lore offered by Tolkien's novels now that publisher EA has secured the rights ...

Mike Mahardy leads game criticism and curation at Polygon as senior editor, reviews. He has been covering entertainment professionally for more than 10 years. On Dec. 31, 2010, an unfortunate ...

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game was first released in 2001, and its success in the marketplace no doubt helped the company turn a financial corner on the way to being the juggernaut it is today.