Electronic Arts wants to continue to expand its mobile gaming portfolio and has partnered with Middle Earth Enterprise to do so. with which he will develop The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-eartha long-awaited return from the developer behind the single Middle-earth release: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War five years ago.

As Malachi Boyle, vice president of Mobile RPG for Electronic Arts for Businesswire, shared:The team is full of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fans and each day combines their tremendous passion and talent to offer an authentic experience for players. Combining high fidelity graphics, film animation and stylized art immerses players in the fantasy of Middle-earth, where they meet their favorite characters face to face«.

And that’s because the Heroes of Middle-earth progressed in detail will focus on the turn-based combat system, resulting in an immersive story and the use of a large list of characters from both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Although, as the developer points out, players «will be driven by iconic stories from Tolkein’s world“, So the story of the game could have taken place at different times and places in the history of this fantasy world.

Although it is also stated the presence of a large number of collectibleswhich together with this free-to-play model points to the coming of The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth according to the popular model of gacha gamescharged with numerous micropayments.

So even though we still don’t have a release date, it’s already confirmed. the next arrival of the first closed beta version (limited by regional scope not yet shared) already this summer. A date that, in the absence of new details, could coincide with the arrival of another of the long-awaited parts of this franchise, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, developed by Amazon Games, last seen at the Game Awards.