LOTR Online Devs Working on Console MMO

While this generation of consoles has brought online multiplayer gaming forward by leaps and bounds, one genre has been sorely misrepresented - the MMORPG. While these games continue to thrive on PC, they're almost nonexistent on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Developer Turbine has experience in the genre thanks to the Lord of the Rings Online games, and they're planning on bringing a new MMORPG to gamers' living rooms in 2011.

Craig Alexander, Turbine's VP of studio development has said that their unnamed project has been 18 months in the making and has cost the studio $20 million. It may be a long time before we even hear an official release date, but it's at least good to hear efforts are being made in bringing the popular genre to consoles.