"It's time to reveal what we are working on." Image credit: Warhorse The rumours are true: Kingdom Come Deliverance studio Warhorse really is making a Lord of the Rings role-playing game. More specifically, it's making an open-world Middle-earth RPG. Warhorse announced the project on X this morning. "You might have heard the rumours," it wrote, "it's time to reveal what we are working on." It then confirmed it's developing "an open-world Middle-earth RPG" as well "a new Kingdom Come adventure". "We're excited to tell you more when the time is right," it noted. The Lord of the Rings game rumour has been swirling since late 2025, and it resurfaced again in March. It's part of parent company Embracer's Middle-earth push , overseen by its newly formed Fellowship Entertainment subsidiary, which a number of Embracer's studios were recently reorganised underneath. Perhaps recent revelations Amazon is exploring a Lord of the Rings "game experience" prompted Warhorse into this formal announcement.…