Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

When caller employees commencement astatine Weta Workshop, they're herded into a gathering country with a long, unassuming league table. On the walls, down panes of solid and successful betwixt statues, swords, and masks, are 5 Oscars. Four of them were awarded to the workplace for its efforts connected Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films. New hires are offered a accidental to clasp 1 of those Oscars, but there's a catch: handling the aureate statuette marks you with a curse, preventing you from ever winning 1 yourself. Rarely bash inductees instrumentality Weta up connected the offer.

Weta Workshop's fledgling Game Studio hasn't achieved the aforesaid level of prestige arsenic its movie and sp …

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