http://www.unlocktheminesofmoria.com/ I can do this news thing. The first Lords of the Rings Online expansion has been announced and we're off to the Mines of Moria. +10 to the level cap, new loot thing with equipment developing alongside characters as they level (please don't say I need to grind for my sword's XP now as well as my character's XP!), Rune Keeper and Warden as new classes. Apparently it's going to be the usual annual expansion schedule, which is good as there's also six (or maybe 5 with the expansion being the 6th) biggish patches per year that...

This weeks patch for even went, well, not as well as they hoped and so thousands found themselves with an evening to spare. Since the best thing to do TV wise on a Wednesday night is to shout at Torchwood ("Stop making comments about having no breath because he's dead all the time if he's going to breath so heavily while it's said!") I decided to spend most of the evening elsewhere. In this case it was Middle Earth. Yes folks, I've been playing Lord of the Rings online. Don't tell anybody but it's quite fun. First impressions of LOTRO...