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Tales of the Shire - Official TeaserWatch on YouTube
Tales of the Shire - Official Teaser
Not heard of Wētā Workshop? They’re a New Zealand-based special effects company and the creator of props and setpieces for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films - including their Shire sets - together with the more recent Avatar: The Way of the Water. Their gaming division dates back to 2014, and has worked primarily onvirtual reality and augmented reality fare, but according to marketing materials, Tales of the Shire will be a more traditional game. I’m guessing from the title it’ll be narrative-led, though Hobbiton would be an obvious choice for some kind of slice-of-lifey farming simulation. Stardew Shire, maybe.
There’s little else to tell at this point, but it all seems a world and a half away from the October 2023-bound delving and looting simThe Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. Though I do detect traces of the Cosy/Cozy curse in the latter’s underground townbuilding. Send in the Balrogs!
