From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...

The Lord of the Rings is getting new games left and right, and Tales of the Shire and Return to Moria bring about a need for one other type of game. Samwise Gamgee might see himself as nothing more ...

If there’s one thing you need to know about Nerdist, it’s that we absolutely love LEGO. And more than anything else, we love The Lord of the Rings LEGO sets. So far, we’ve had an incredible time ...

Ever since reading The Hobbit at 10 years old, I’ve been able to see the appeal of Tolkien’s halflings’ lifestyle—which Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of The Rings Game aims to adapt into a cozy life ...

When Tales of the Shire was first announced, I was among the cozy gamers absolutely losing their minds with excitement. The game puts a wholesome, Hobbit-centric spin on a game set in Middle Earth. In ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's a famous line in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings where Gandalf the Grey explains that a wizard is never ...

I got a demo of Tales of the Shire, a cozy game about Middle-earth’s Hobbit community. It’s coming this year from Weta Workshop. And while it’s a game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and The ...

You arrive in The Shire as an outsider from Bree, a small village that was briefly featured in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The residence of The Shire, all Hobbits, seem eager to ...

For someone like me who is desperate to get stuck into any whimsical life sim, Tales of the Shire sounds like a perfect match. On paper, it promises a cosy life in Middle-earth, filled with farming, ...

The version of the Shire we see in Tales of the Shire is absolutely beautiful. But even with the gentle guidance of the birds rather than traditional quest markers, it’s easy to focus on getting from ...