Developer Daedalic Entertainment and publisher NACON have revealed the system requirements and collector's edition bonuses for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum US $10 more expensive version called the "Precious Edition". I was going to make fun of the fact that it includes the Sindarin VO pack (opens in new tab), which replaces the dialogue of elven NPCs with authentic Sindarin, the elvish language invented by J. R. R. Tolkien as part of the language game underlying his work.

Other than "The Lord of the Rings" included in the Precious Edition are the following: when you pre-order either the Precious Edition or the standard non-Precious Edition, you will get Gollum himself and six emotes.

They certainly have my number, but then I am one of the 37% of people who saw the Ring of Power to the end (opens in new tab). That said, I'm not sure how large an audience there is for a game featuring the most bachelor-worthy man in Middle-earth. Are people really lining up for a game featuring a slimy, fish-eating freak? Because that's what it takes to see Gollum's pale, toasty chest at 1440p with ray tracing.

Ted Litchfield saw a demo of Gollum last year and wasn't too keen on its stealthiness. It's an open-ended platform puzzle that I really enjoyed in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Gollum has to climb to the height of a huge room and jump off a moving sarcophagus railing high off the floor. This part of the Gollum demo stirred something in me that made me want to actually play the game.

The creators of Gollum recently announced via Twitter (opens in new tab) that development has been completed, or "gone gold" in industry parlance, and when it launches on May 25 it will be available on Steam (opens in new tab) and the Epic Games Store (opens in new tab) for PC.