In the case of Monolith's Middle-earth games ... with Fryer stating that the studio was facing "the same problem" with Shadow of Mordor. So, the question was asked: "How do we create a single ...

Earlier this year, Warner Bros. closed down Monolith, the developer behind 2014's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its 2017 sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Those LOTR games were beloved by ...

Based on the stories and the universes of actual novels, these open-world games do an amazing job of bringing the written ...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor had a killer feature that made it stand out from its contemporaries — the Nemesis system. While Monolith Productions' clever system is an innovative bit of gaming ...

One unexpected consequence of that weird industry huff is Shadow of Mordor's nemesis system. Laura Fryer, who was vice president of WB Games in charge of the publisher's Seattle studios during ...

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System is still beloved more than a decade after its release, but it was apparently only created to stop people from selling their physicals discs ...

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is remembered for many reasons, but perhaps best of all for its Nemesis system, an incredible mechanic for generating memorable Orc encounters. According to a former ...

Monolith Productions crafted the Nemesis system as a response to the growing issue of second-hand Batman copies undermining game sales.

Major releases like Ghost of Tsushima, Star Wars Outlaws, and Hogwarts Legacy keep running into the same problem: spectacular ...

and new combat mechanics based on the Nemesis System from Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Additionally, it would’ve included a terrifying rogues’ gallery featuring the likes of Harley Quinn ...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is, for the most part, a pretty unexceptional game that does most things pretty competently, though it does manage to slip into that coveted 7/10, imperfect but has ...

The first in a duology of action-adventure games set in J. R. R. Tolkien's world, 2014's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, was developed during a time when large publishers frequently complained ...