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A few rays of light in an otherwise dreary year.

The free-to-play Lord of the Rings MMO game that was announced by Leyou Technologies in 2018 and said to be co-developed and co-published by Amazon Games in 2019 has been cancelled. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that t...

After having several months with an exclusive negotiating window, Tencent is finally wrapping up its acquisition of Leyou Technologies.

We're still trying to sort out all the fine points of Enad Global 7's acquisition of Daybreak Game Company yesterday.

With everything else that's happened this year, it might be hard to remember that there's a Lord of the Rings MMO in development by Athlon Games.

Less than half a year after its launch -- and three months after its un-launch and removal to closed beta -- Amazon Game Studios has announced that it is pulling the plug on Crucible.

UPDATED, July 11: It looks like Tencent has procured an exclusive window to negotiate for the acquisition of Leyou.

Earlier this year, I poked fun at people who panicked over the 3% acquisition of Digital Extremes by Perfect World Entertainment back in 2014.

In the Lord of the Rings books and movies, the climactic moment of Frodo destroying the One Ring is followed up with a lot more material -- about 20 minutes of film, and several more chapters of the book.

Well, that was fast.

Last year, we learned about Athlon Games, a division of Leyou Technologies, that was formed primarily to work on a new "free-to-play massively multiplayer online video game based on The Lord of the Rings." Today, news came dow...

Lord of the Rings Online fans have faced this question before: Will our game shut down?...

Six months ago, we learned about Athlon Games, a new development company created by Leyou Technologies, which owns Warframe developer Digital Extremes and Dirty Bomb maker Splash Damage.

Leyou Technologies Inc., a Chinese producer of chicken products -- which, as you might recall, owns both Warframe developer Digital Extremes and Dirty Bomb maker Splash Damage -- has created a new company in the United States ...