Warner Bros Discovery recently shut down a trio of game studios, including the well-regarded Monolith Productions. This has put one of the coolest game mechanics of the 2010s in limbo. Middle-earth: ...

They have gathered merely as a prelude to the glory of battle. My job in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is to select the orcs I wish to fight against. The trick is to find an orc who is neither ...

The Nemesis System was arguably Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s best quality. It let you manipulate battles by working your way through the ranks of the orc army, systematically chopping it off ...

For example, if a player encountered an enemy chief orc in Shadow of Mordor and the player lost the battle, the orc would level up, remember the past fight with the player, and comment on it to ...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor only allowed players to go to two ... Each of these regions will be ruled by a separate tribe of orcs ruled by an Overlord, and Talion will have to conquer them ...

But the way in which we brutalize orcs isn't what Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor did best. It was the ways in which we could manipulate them. Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system exposed us to a ...