Electronic Theatre reports on the first two of a series of videogames currently in development to support Peter Jackson’s forthcoming The Hobbit Trilogy.

Kabam and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have partnered to co-publish videogames for mobile devices and internet platforms inspired by Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy, the forthcoming motion-picture adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien novel. Under the deal, Kabam will develop and operate two multiplayer strategy videogames, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth for mobile devices and The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age for web browsers, both launching in autumn 2012.

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