They have gathered merely as a prelude to the glory of battle. My job in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is to select the orcs I wish to fight against. The trick is to find an orc who is neither ...

will retain the patent for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system until 2036, following the closure of Monolith Productions. Earlier this week, Warner Bros. shut down three major studios ...

This has put one of the coolest game mechanics of the 2010s in limbo. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's excellent Nemesis system is locked behind a patent owned by Warner Bros all the way until ...

In the case of Monolith's Middle-earth games ... with Fryer stating that the studio was facing "the same problem" with Shadow of Mordor. So, the question was asked: "How do we create a single ...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor had a killer feature that made it stand out from its contemporaries — the Nemesis system. While Monolith Productions' clever system is an innovative bit of gaming ...

Earlier this year, Warner Bros. closed down Monolith, the developer behind 2014's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its 2017 sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Those LOTR games were beloved by ...

Reviewed on September 25 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor stands out from other open-world action games by putting a great new layer on top of the trail that Batman blazed. I was surprised at how ...

Reviewed on September 25 Shadow of Mordor takes the fundamental action and open-world traversal from established great series like Batman: Arkham and Assassin’s Creed, and adds something new and ...

ENEMY MINE The games keep getting bigger and more impressive, but the content is stagnating.