Although they’re best known for publishing Warhammer 40K, Games Workshop has long published the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, a miniatures skirmish game based on the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. Since then, she ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Despite sporting a 2024 release date, there's still relatively little information to be found about cozy hobbit-centric game Tales of the Shire. A new ...

English is a quirky language, but what they've done with the title for the new hobbit game can't be blamed on zany grammar rules. It's a sin that's been committed in the name of branding—a terrible ...

We’re living in the middle of a bounty of Middle-earth media. Last year’s wretched Gollum game, 2026’s apparent Gollum duology, The Rings of Power’s elven kings, War of the Rohirrim’s horse maidens, ...

A 30-minute demo with Tales of the Shire at Summer Game Fest last week confirmed what was, uh, never actually in any doubt: it's Stardew Valley but with happy little hobbits. Well, not Stardew Valley ...

One of the most anticipated cozy games of the year is Weta Workshop’s Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game. This title lets players step into Tolkien’s Shire to live their own Hobbit life. The ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...

Not only is Reiner Knizia certainly the most prolific designer in hobby board games, but The Hobbit: There And Back Again isn’t even his first (or second, or third) game based on Tolkien's book for ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth The battle for Middle-earth has just begun! Gandalf, Bilbo, Thorin and thousands of players require your help to pacify ...

Following an auspicious debut touted as the future of the industry—only to have the industry stare into its future with disbelief and horror—Warner Bros. has decided the revolution can wait a little ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Hobbit Step into the hairy hobbits’ feet of Bilbo Baggins in Vivendi Universal Games’ take on Tolkien’s prequel to the massive Lord of the Rings trilogy ...