Lord of the Rings Online has won the Golden Joystick PC Game of the Year Award (sponsored by PC Gamer). What does this mean? Well, basically that more gamers who play LOTRO voted in the Golden Joystick awards than gamers from other games. Not to mention the fact that these awards are a little confusing with WoW: Burning Crusade winning "Online Game of the Year" (difference?). One strange thing to me was the fact that they not only promoted the story on the home page, but also asked you to digg it. This is something I've always thought the smaller MMORPG's should do, but just never do. I guess they are trying to look professional, but Digg can be a powerful way to get the message out.
LOTRO has had a lot of updates lately, and I think it's gaining steam. A lot of MMO's do after about a year, because that's the point where most work out a lot of the bugs. Before then, it's hit and miss, but don't be suprised if you log in one day and something is missing from your inventory because of a "bug". Anyway, LOTRO just added over 100 new quests, a new 12-player raid, two new areas in Middle-earth and introduced the player housing system. Before that, book 10 added new reputation and bartering systems, playing as monsters, and enhanced the user interface.
Right now, you can play The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar for 7 days for free and if you refer a friend, you can get 30 days free added to your account through their referral program.
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