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The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood expansion goes live today, giving players a chance to adventure into the dark and foreboding woods of Mirkwood and launch an all-out assault on a Ring Wraith fortress. The digital expansion also includes some other nice benefits like an increased level cap, a conclusion to the Mines of Moria story, and other gameplay enhancements.

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The first week of December sees several retail and downloadable PC games and expansions make their way to store shelves and download services:

Dirt 2 - While the console versions of Codemasters' rally racer were released last September, the PC version that comes out this week has the distinction of being the first PC game released in the US that has DirectX11-supported graphics out of the box.

In Siege of Mirkwood, the upcoming digital expansion for The Lord of Rings Online, players will have a chance to gather forces together and lay an assault on a Nazgul's fortress. The only question is: Are they ready to face such a powerful evil? Heroes will get a chance to find out if they have what it takes when the expansion releases on December 1st.

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The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood, the upcoming digital expansion pack to LOTRO, will end 2009 with a huge bang. Some of the expansion's major features include an increased level cap to 65, the epic conclusion to the Mines of Moria story, and a brand new Skirmishes feature. Skirmishes are random, repeatable, instances where players can create and lead customized soldiers into battle. Of course, you'll need to rally your friends together because the Mirkwood adventure builds up to a 12-player raid on the Dol Guldur, the fortress of the Ringwraiths.

The Siege of Mirkwood expansion will be available on December 1st, and will be sold digitally for $19.99. Players can also purchase an Adventurer's Pack (which also goes live on 12/1), which has 2 character slots, a shared character storage, a Harbinger's Cloak, and the Dusky Nimblefoot Goat mount for $19.99. The expansion and Adventurer's Pack can be purchased together as a bundle for $39.99.

LOTRO's $199 lifetime membership is available again, and players that upgrade their account to any multi-month plan by October 31st will get Siege of Mirkwood for free.

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Turbine's fantasy MMO Lord of the Rings Online has already announced plans to release a new digital download expansion named Siege of Mirkwood. Today the developer announced that the expansion would be released on December 1 for $19.99. However that's not all Turbine is offering for both new and current players.

It's also offering what they are calling the Adventurers Pack. For an additional $19.99 you can buy two more character slots for the game as well as a new storage slot that you can use to share loot with all of your LOTRO characters on the same server. If you pre-order the Adventurer's Pack you also get a new in-game item (the Harbinger's Cloak) and a new mount (the Dusky Nimblefoot Goat) for free.

Turbine is also restating their Lifetime Subscription offer which, for $199, gives players a way to play the game with no more monthly charges. Current players can get the Siege of Mirkwod expansion for free if they switch their subscription plan to any multi-month plan by October 31. If you already are a Lifetime Subscriber you can get the expansion for free if you pre-order the Adventure's Pack. You can check out a chat with Turbine reps about the expansion on our sister site Massively.