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Lord of the Rings Online is inviting players to pimp their ride in the new horse design contest. As if seeing people riding by on your horse in game isn’t cool enough, winners can also score Turbine goodie bags,forum prizes and a unique forum title for first place.

LOTRO fans, it’s time to show us your artistic and creative skills: we’re giving you the opportunity to submit your very own design for a horse which could be taken and implemented into the game as a player mount in a future content update.

The areas of customization on the mount include:

• Horse’s color and marking
• Horse blanket pattern and color
• Horse saddle

For more information on how you can have your own artistic vision featured in-game, read the specifics on the LOTRO Design a Horse Contest site.

The latest big storyline update for the Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Book 8 is coming online today. High level players can challenge the Scourge of Khazad-dûm from the heights and depths of Moria. Gaming Today has talked a lot about this content in the past few weeks with screenshots, details from the patch notes and even given you glimpse from the walkthrough. Now you can see it for yourself in the Lord of the Rings Online Book 8 Teaser Trailer. The video is well put together with plenty of in-game footage of monsters and boss battles. I encourage you to check it out. Here are some screens from the the Scourge of Khazad-dûm including shots of Zholuga and the world eaters.

In addition to new Book 8 content for high level players, everyone can enjoy the Summer Festival which is only a week away. The special events, decorations and the Inn League challenge will run from June 30 through July 14th.
NEW FEATURES IN BOOK 8: SCOURGE OF KHAZAD-DÛM (cont’d):
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Turbine has released full patch notes on the imminent Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria Book 8 content. The Scourge of Khazad-Dûm brings a major content update which includes three man and full fellowship instances as well as a twelve man raid. Gaming Today had a chance to experience these first hand. You can read about them in our recent article, From the Roof of the World to the Foundations of Stone: Gaming Today Explores LotRO: Mines of Moria Book 8.

Besides the big changes, there are a lot of little things that are bound to make every player happy. Food, craftable potions and Minstrels’s Lute Strings will stack to 50. Better yet Traveling Rations and reputation tokens as well as all crafting ingredients and components will stack to 100. And of course everyone should be thrilled that the emote for slapping fellow players with a fish is fixed.

One further piece of advice, those blasted Honey and Oats recipes are about to become rare drops. Read the LotRO : Mines of Moria Book 8 patch notes at the LotRO Lorebook.

Turbine is gearing up for the debut of Book 8: Scourge of Khazád-dum for Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. I recently had the pleasure of accompanying Adam Mersky and Aaron “Rowan” Campbell on an expedition into the heights and depths of Moria. They revealed the horrors and wonders that await players in this latest edition to the LotRO epic storyline.
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Players are getting a first look into the Hall of Mirrors, part of the new Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria content coming this months. This glimpse into the looking glass takes players into an instance as part of the Scourge of Khazâd-dum content. Death lurks in the heights as well as the depths of the fallen Dwarven kingdom.

Follow the break to see more of these incredibly detailed screens resized for desktops.

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Overlord was one of those games many consider a guilty pleasure. Like Pikmin with blood and gore, the title let you assume the role of an evil leader while building up your henchmen and eliminating the pastoral villages and their inhabitants. Teh continuation of the Overlord series is due out later this year and in the wake of E3, publisher Codemasters is revving up the information flow to tease us all about the game’s new features.

Today we have two new videos – one, a comical look at beginning your “Career in Overlording” and the second – ‘Mayhem and Chaos’ highlighting the destruction you can drum up in the new title. These instructional vids come straight from the Minionstry of Information.

If you’re interested, Overlord II’s demo recently hit Xbox Live and should make its way to the PSN sometimes soon.

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Lord of the Rings Online players are getting new crafting enhancements with the Mines of Moria Volume II Book 8: Scourge of Khazâd-dum. New recipes for the Supreme crafters are available in guilds and from the Lothlorien Galadrim. They’re also changing around special ingredients for recipes, and making drops more informative. You’ll be told which craft and what level of expertise your winnings are good for.

Once again, you can bater any old ingredients you have hanging around your bank and inventory for the new ones. Other wins are being able to use rare ingredients in trail food to make dishes more potent. Superior ingredients can now be found in ore, wood, and artifact nodes. There are also several tables detailing adjustments to the minimum levels players can equip items at.

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Turbine is granting gamers their first glimpse into Volume II Book 8 of Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. These gorgeous screenshots unveil new challenges for players to face in their quest to aid the Fellowship and prepare for the War of the Ring. Deep within Moria’s waterworks lurks the Scourge of Khazâd-dum. Worms and more lethal abominations lie in wait among the water wheels ready to strike at the unwary.

As usual these screens show of the care lavished on the architecture, player characters and monster art. Pick out one of these screenshots of LotRO Volume II Book 8: Scourge of Khazâd-dum for your desktop after the break.
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Turbine is celebrating its Lord of the Rings Online server upgrades with the LotRO Performance Event. Players are invited to play with Turbine developers Thursday, May 14 between 9:00PM and 11:00PM Eastern.  You’ll recognize the devs as players with a plus sign (+) prefix in chat.

If you accept the challenge you’ll have to download and install the Bullroarer client ahead of time. Log in on Bullroarer and play for the entire event for your shot at  some loot. Prizes include a Phenom CPU with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, solid state hard drives, DX10.1 video cards, and signed copies of LotRO: Mines of Moria. Complete details on the LotRO Performance Event and prizes are after the jump.

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