Amazon's rough go at the video game industry isn't getting any smoother, as the
etail giant has cancelled plans for a free-to-play
Lord of the
Rings MMOG that was
announced
in 2019. The game's co-developer, Leyou Technologies, was acquired by Tencent
late
last year. Now Amazon confirms
to Bloomberg this ended up throwing the Lord of the Rings game into Mount
Doom:
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that after Tencent’s acquisition of
Leyou, “we have been unable to secure terms to proceed with this title at this
time.”
The Amazon team working on the game will be moved to other projects. “We love
the Lord of the Rings IP, and are disappointed that we won’t be bringing this
game to customers,” the spokesperson for the Seattle-based company said in a
statement.