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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 few months was always to ensure the proper release and quality of Dawn of the Morninglight. I’m really glad this went well and it seems that you’ve all been enjoying the new content (even if it felt a bit short… I know!).” Amiel has passed the torch over to Chris “Nirvell” Meredith’s very capable hands. “Chris has always been a source of great ideas, and I have no doubts that he will take good care of the game and of you guys, the best community any MMO ever had,” says Amiel. “It’s been an absolute pleasure sharing this universe with all of you! … [Read more...] about Secret World Legends Game Director Romain ‘Tilty’ Amiel Bids Farewell To Funcom

Funcom yesterday posted its third quarter earnings for 2018, and the results are rather positive. Third quarter earnings amounted to $7.5 million, a 25% increase over last year, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization amounted to $4.6 million. The developer happily notes that not only has cash flow beaten the full year’s numbers for last year, which was the highest in Funcom histroy, but that the company is now free of interest-bearing debt for the first time since 2009 and holds a cash balance of $20.9 million. On the road ahead, Funcom has six titles in its lineup including Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, Petroglyph’s Conan game set for the second quarter 2019, Rock Pocket’s Funcom IP game set for Halloween 2019, a cooperative shooter from Funcom North Carolina, a single-player Conan game from Funcom Oslo, and an open-world multiplayer game also from Funcom Oslo. It appears that Petroglyph’s Conan game will release on PC while Rock … [Read more...] about Funcom Q3 2018 Report: Highest Quarterly Earnings In Company History

Funcom today launches their latest title: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. The title promises to combine the turn based strategy of XCOM with realtime stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature and mutants. In a world where nuclear war has not only wiped out the last vestiges of humanity, you take on the roles of several mutated animals and humanoids to find Eden, a legendary safe haven in the wasteland that is the post-apocalyptic Earth. Or it may just not exist. Mutant Year Zero is available on PC, Xbox, and Playstation. Xbox Game Pass owners willing to wait two days will find the game added to their library on December 6. Advertisements … [Read more...] about Funcom’s Mutant Year Zero Has Launched

With only a few older free-to-play MMORPGs on its roster, Funcom’s quarterly financial statement doesn’t typically offer as much to dissect as other companies’. Today’s statement, however, does offer some interesting news regarding a game that used to be pay-to-play, went free-to-play, and now will be (to a degree) pay-to-play again.Anarchy Online is getting an optional subscriber-only progression server, and it’s getting it soon. “Late February/March ’19” is the time frame mentioned in the financial report, and a full description of what’s to be offered can be found on the AO Facebook page: Anarchy Online’s 2019 server invites you on a voyage across space…and time! Start fresh with original content from launch, then experience additional expansions and level caps over time. Coming Soon! That’s not the only big news Funcom had for investors (and players) today, though. The company has inked a deal with Legendary … [Read more...] about Funcom Plans Paid Progression Server For Anarchy Online, Nabs Dune License

This is another one of those “we don’t know for certain they’ll be free-to-play” things, but considering it’s Funcom, we decided to go ahead and let you know what’s going on anyway. The developer of Age of Conan and Secret World Legends has teamed with Cabinet Group LLC to form a new company by the name of Heroic Signatures. This company will manage the interactive rights to intellectual properties based on books from Conan author Robert E. Howard. Included in the deal are not only Conan the Barbarian, but also Solomon Kane, Mutant Chronicles, and several other IPs creating a total of 29 different properties.While Heroic Signatures will oversee each of these properties, they will make them available to other developers to license, as part of Funcom’s new focus on publishing partnerships. To aid in funding these new third party deals, Funcom has acquired a 10.6 million USD investment. Full details on the new partnership and funding are available … [Read more...] about Funcom Co-Establishes “Heroic Signatures” To Manage IPs Associated With Robert E Howard