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Secret World Legends Game Director Romain “Tilty” Amiel has left Funcom after 11 years with the Norwegian game development company. Amiel bids the Funcom community farewell on the official forums: “Today was my last day at Funcom. After almost 11 years (8 of these on TSW!), I’ve decided to follow up on other opportunities. My top priorities over the last [...]
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Veteran MMORPG studio Funcom has had a busy year. Their latest game, Conan Exiles, has been well received with over 600,000 copies sold so far in Early Access. A free to play reboot of The Secret World, titled Secret World Legends has also done well. Now Funcom is capping off a productive year with a new partnership. Funcom and Cabinet [...]
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Funcom, the Oslo, Norway based games studio, has published more information on the upcoming "relaunch" of their conspiracist themed, modern era MMORPG The Secret World. The Secret World, originally released in 2012, will relaunch this Spring as Secret World Legends. Tellingly, the studio is labeling Secret World Legends as a story-driven, shared-world action RPG rather than using the previous MMORPG [...]
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Funcom released its second quarter financial report last Friday, revealing that revenues had dropped whereas equity had increased. Second quarter revenues are $1.718 million, down from first quarter's $2.654 million "following a gradual and expected decrease in sales from the current Live Games." The company's total equity is now $2.389 million, up from first quarter's -$9.953 million. According to the [...]
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Funcom announced today that it has received a $6.3 million private placement investment and brought the amount of debt it is in down by around $7.7 million via "a debt conversion process that has no cash impact on the company." The end result is that Funcom's equity has jumped from -$10 million to over +$4 million and Funcom's future endeavors [...]
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Funcom's annual report is here and it is somewhat of a mixed bag. Highlights include the fact that the company wants to create one "smaller game" per year. The first of these was The Park. Another was confirmed to be in development in the following statement: "the Company has started internal concept development and [prototyping] for a smaller game based [...]
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Funcom recently announced financial issues. Players claim that there have been no content updates to Age of Conan since it went free-to-play. And yet, Funcom and Conan Properties have entered a new partnership in which Funcom is "the preferred partner for all PC and console games based on the Conan the Barbarian brand and the world of Hyboria." In going [...]
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Anarchy Online has been around for 14 years and has seen many vast overhauls since then. The latest update for this venerable science fiction themed MMORPG is an engine update that has been in the works for several years. After many delays, Funcom has announced today, June 25, 2015, as the official patch day. Besides upgrading the graphics and interface, [...]
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