Shadow of Mordor Has 'Only Scratched the Surface' of Monolith's Middle-earth

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's design director Michael de Plater first read The Hobbit when he was four years old. "I lived with my grandmother and she was a teacher, so she taught me to read before I had started school," de Plater said during a recent interview. "That was the first thing I ever read. And then I read The Lord of the Rings straight after that, I was maybe six. It was the first thing I was introduced to." De Plater was drawn into game design not through video games themselves bu...