10 Video Games You Won’t Believe Are In Development

by Josh Brown

1. The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum

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New Line Cinema

It's a Lord of the Rings game. Where you play as Gollum. I'm as confused as you are.

Unlike some licensed tie-ins, there have been plenty of games based on Middle-Earth, but there's still so many characters and stories left unexplored, which makes it mind-boggling that Gollum is getting his own solo spin-off before heroes and villains you'd assume would be better fits for the medium.

Admittedly, the game is going to be more than just a Samwise Gamgee prank simulator, and developers Daedalic have promised that it will be a deep RPG where players can influence the outcome of the story. The team has a pretty solid track record as well, so we shouldn't write it off before we've even seen anything.

After lurking in the background for a while, the project was recently confirmed to launch on the Xbox Series X and PS5 in 2021.

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Josh has over 11 years of experience as a published writer, having worked nine of those years as a full-time content producer at WhatCulture. In that period he has created hundreds of articles, videos and podcast episodes for multiple WhatCulture channels, specialising in gaming, horror and film & TV. He now primarily works as a senior content producer and presenter on WhatCulture Gaming where he co-hosts the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast, a top 3 UK most listened to gaming podcast that he co-created in 2018. Over the years he has reviewed several high-profile gaming releases, covered industry events with on-site reporting, opined on breaking news, and even kicked off his interviewing career by chatting to childhood hero, Tommy Wiseau.