Secret World Legends Game Director Romain ‘Tilty’ Amiel Bids Farewell To Funcom

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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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The Secret World Relaunching As Action RPG Titled Secret World Legends

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's Second Quarter Financials Show Decrease In Revenues, Increase In Equity, More Games In Development

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's Annual Report Reveals New The Secret World Spin-Off, LEGO Minifigures Online May Shut Down In October

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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Anarchy Online Engine Update Goes Live

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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