From 18th to 22nd August, 2010 the Codemasters Online Team will be attending this year´s GamesCom in Cologne, Germany.

Together with Turbine we will be presenting LOTRO Free-To-Play to our European audience. Everyone who signs up for LOTRO Free-To-Play at our booth at GamesCom will receive a special reward of LOTRO store Points worth 10 €!

Hey everybody. This is Joe “jwbarry” and in this, the second in a series of Dev Diaries about our new Scaling Instance systems, I’m going to be talking about the structure of the rewards system, what you can get from playing Scaling Instances, stat tracking, and the quality bar.

Running a Beta Program can be a tricky thing; everyone who isn’t in the beta wants to know what’s going on, but due to NDA restrictions no one in the program can tell them. So how do you let players talk about what they’re seeing, without violating their NDA? The answer is the LOTRO Beta Journal Project! Each week, we’ll ask Beta participants to submit their personal “Beta Journal” on a given topic. We’ll then take a sampling of those responses and post them for the entire LOTRO Community to read.

One of the constant challenges of game development, particularly within the MMO space, is the balance of quality and quantity when it comes to content. You need to make sure you have enough to do, but you also want to make sure it’s fun, challenging, and rewarding.

Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Joe “jwbarry” Barry!

Check out the Codemasters community blog May Contain Gamers for blog posts, pictures and more from the team about the Codemasters Anniversary Raid Day.