Posts Tagged The Secret World
Funcom’s Joel Bylos is preparing for the end of the world tomorrow in his latest amusing video blog update and he has also released a new developer blog in which is talks more about Issue #6 of The Secret World. In Issue #6, the storyline will take place in Egypt. A series of missions that [...]
Posted 20 December 2012 | Comments Off
Fantastic news for MMO gamers this morning, Funcom has announced that the Secret World has gone free to play. Buy it once and it’s free to play forever. Bargain! “With this recent change there is no reason not to join and take part in ‘The Secret World’,” says Game Director Joel Bylos. “Most players end [...]
Posted 12 December 2012 | Comments OffFuncom’s Halloween event kicks off today as part of the issue #3 update called Cat God bringing a new storyline to the MMO specifically created for Halloween. Players will head to Stonehenge and face the nasty looking feline and there’s also new costumes and cat pets. Game Director Joe Bylos gives more details …
Posted 18 October 2012 | Comments OffMany of you will have seen Joel in the pre-release Funcom presentations for The Secret World and today he has been assigned the position of game director for the MMO. Joel was previously the game’s lead designer. Ragnar Tørnquist will continue as the game’s creative director and Scott junior continues his position as producer. “Being given [...]
Posted 24 September 2012 | Comments Off
Over on the the IncGamers site they sat down with Ragnar Tørnquist, the game’s creative director and producer to find out what’s in store for the MMO, Funcom and also to get his take on the current state of the MMORPG genre. Here’s a snip: IncGamers: Generally, now that the game is a few months [...]
Posted 13 September 2012 | Comments OffThe third content update for TSW arrives tomorrow bringing newfeatures including new investigation missions, the rocket launcher auxiliary weapon, the looking-for-group system, as well as plastic surgery and the barbershop. Here’s the trailer.
Posted 12 September 2012 | Comments OffIn a new developer blog on The Secret World website they take a look at ‘lairs’ in the game, areas where there are groups of powerful mobs which offer the chance of ‘signet drop’ to summon powerful bosses on par with the game’s nightmare dungeon bosses. The blog covers changes that are being added to [...]
Posted 4 September 2012 | Comments Off
Despite the recent problems at Funcom following news that The Secret World shifted around 200,000 copies and staff were let go to restructure the company, Funcom are keen to point out that they are fully committed to the MMO. Creative Director and Senior Producer Ragnar Tørnquist issued a lengthy “state of the game” update which outlines [...]
Posted 31 August 2012 | Comments OffEarlier in the week we reported that Funcom are currently scalingback their staffing levels and this has effected the development cycle of the Secret World team. Due to the restructuring, Issue #2 of the MMO called “Digging Deeper” which was planned for an August release will now arrive on 11 September. As you may know, [...]
Posted 25 August 2012 | Comments OffFuncom and EA will be showing off spanking-new The Secret World content at Gamescom next week. On demo will be the game’s first raid instance set in a partly destroyed New York where players have to take on a monster that crawls out of the subway system and heads to Times Square. Sounds intriguing and [...]
Posted 9 August 2012 | Comments Off
Ahead of this weekend’s free to play session, Funcom has now released the first content update for The Secret World. This first update includes new investigation quests, new dungeons, and the marketplace is now live allowing players to trade and sell items easily. The game’s key city locations of London, Tokyo and New York are [...]
Posted 31 July 2012 | Comments OffFuncom’s Tor Egil Andersen has written a new blog entry which explains how the Dungeons in The Secret World function offering a few tips for players who may have just joined the game, or even players who have been getting to grips with Dungeons for the past few weeks. The update covers the different dungeon difficulties [...]
Posted 24 July 2012 | Comments OffImagine The Secret World was a real movie and it was coming to a theatre near you next year. Is this what the trailer would be like? If it was I would certainly go see it. Youtube user Bloodrunsclear has created a few of these fake trailers and it does show that games could make [...]
Posted 24 July 2012 | Comments OffFuncom has today released details of the the first content update for The Secret World today which includes new missons, new nightmare mode dungeons. the cross dimensional marketplace and more. The update will be release don 31 July. Read on for the full details and shots…
Posted 13 July 2012 | Comments Off
Creative Director and Senior Producer Ragnar Tørnquist and Lead Content Designer Joel Bylos wil be hosting an exclusive live stream. The stream will kick off at 5pm CET (11am EST / 8am PST) and will be hosted on The Secret World Twitch TV channel. During the session, the pair will offer unique insight into the game [...]
Posted 12 July 2012 | Comments Off
