Apologies for the lack of updated this week. Kinda buried under work… and has nothing to do with the arrival of GTA IV yesterday… no no no… nothing whatsoever…

Sir Ian McKellen is to don the grey beard and head back to the Shire (aka New Zealand) as Gandalf under the direction Guillermo del Toro for The Hobbit (plus 2nd film filling the gap between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring).

Forchel
Forchel is just at the top of Eriador (click map to enlarge) and is an icey wasteland containing the Icebay of Forochel. Despite the freezing climate, the area surrounding the bay is occupied by the Lossoth, descendants of the Forodwaith. The Lossoth aren’t over enamoured with having adventurers trampling around their icey home, but do become more hospitable once you’ve helped them out a bit and gained a favourable reputation with them.

Forochel is a level 44 to 50 area.
Forochel’s land area is about the same size of North Downs (i.e. …

There was a big Lord of the Rings Online Event in Birmingham this weekend (which i didn’t make it to unfortunately), however, they did announce the first retail expansion for Lord of the Rings Online. The Mines of Moria! Players will enter the the city of Khazad-dûm (to use it’s Dwarven name) just after the Fellowship has made it through… well… some of them did… It’ll be one continuous area designed for high level adventurers, and is the first time players have had the chance to leave the kingdom …

As we start 2008, we’re going to be compiling the Geektown Top Ten’s of 2007. And first on that list, is our Top Ten Games. The list is multi-format (excluding handhelds), and is compiled of our favourite games that have been released on either PC, XBox 360, Wii, PS3 in 2007. So here goes….
10. Resistance: Fall of Man

Firstly, this game got terrible bad press this year as one of the maps was based upon a cathedral. Now, I understand that a game company should ask permission to use real buildings …

A rainbow!
To save some bandwidth, i’ve loaded a bunch more LotRO screenshots up to flickr rather than use all the space on the geektown servers, (added a flickr feed to the sidebar too).
I’ve also set up a lotro flickr group, so if there are any more of you lotro players out there that would like to upload their screenshots, you can join me here!
You can see all my lotro screenshots here.

Sorry it’s been a bit quiet round here lately, but we’ve been getting stuck into a few new MMOs. We’d decided to take a bit of a break from WoW so were looking around for a new MMO to try.
As D was already Beta testing Lord of the Rings Online, that seemed like a good choice, although i also wanted to try a non-sword n’ sorcery based game, so we also made a return to City of Heroes, a game we’d both played just after launch. Have to say, it’s …