Monolith Productions‘ highly anticipated Middle-Earth: Shadow of War has been quite the hot topic ever since the official announcement. Fans of the original Shadow of Mordor have been eagerly awaiting for the game to drop later this year in August. Unfortunately, it seems that those fans will have to wait just a bit longer as it has just been pushed back to October of this year.

The announcement of the release date change comes from the game’s official website. No specific reason was given, other than the team wants to deliver the best game possible. This is nothing new in the industry, and can often be seen to result in a better quality product at launch. The push isn’t a drastic one. In fact, it’s only two more months, which is better than some cases. The post to the official website reads:

Middle-earth: Shadow of War will now launch worldwide on Oct. 10, 2017**.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War expands gameplay in every dimension, including the massive open world, the story, the RPG systems, and personal player stories of the Nemesis System. As with Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Monolith is committed to delivering the highest quality experience. In order to do this, we have made the difficult decision to move our launch date to ensure that Middle-earth: Shadow of War will deliver on that promise.

We understand that it might be disappointing to have to wait a little longer for the release and are sorry for the delay, but we are working hard to make an amazing game. We’re excited to show more at E3.

– The Middle-earth: Shadow of War Team

Other than the delay, the post revealed that in regions of the world such as Japan, Australia, and New Zealand will have a later release date that has not yet been confirmed. Also announced in the post was confirmation that Monolith and WB Games will be bringing Middle-Earth: Shadow of War to this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). DFTG will be attending this year’s E3 and can’t wait to deliver the hottest news from the showroom floor.

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