massively.com - 28 days ago
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In between navigating the sometimes-choppy waters of Age of Conan and working toward the launch of The Secret World , Funcom is having a busy year, but it looks like they are adding one more project to the pile as well.
Funcom has been given a grant worth NOK 1.5 million -- $262,000 ...
eurogamer.net - 21 days ago
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eurogamer.net —
Free fortnight and other incentives offered. Funcom has
told Eurogamer that a new Age of Conan re-evaluation...
period gets underway today. To lure you back, the developer is offering two weeks of free play with a double experience bonus to ...
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News: Get on Secret World beta with Conan sub
gamesindustry.biz - 28 days ago
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gamesindustry.biz —
Norwegian developer and publisher Funcom, the company behind
the Age of Conan and Secret World MMO titles,...
has been awarded a grant worth NOK 1.5 million (USD 262,000) to help it create a new social MMO based around extreme ...
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News:
Funcom awarded $260,000 grant
stylishcorpse.wordpress.com - 26 days ago
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stylishcorpse.wordpress.com —
A rather belated snippet (from end-September), and not
a particularly optimistic one at that. Then again we...
live in interesting economic times. Per VG247 : “Age of Conan dev Funcom is to drop 20 percent of its workforce, according to E24 , resulting in a “significant delay” to ...
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... Massively has an article describing how Funcom has a new MMO in development, Board with the World, a free-to-play social MMO focusing on the world of extreme sports. I’m not entirely sure that a pun on ‘bored’ is the optimum way to market your MMO product. And then, of course, there’s: ...
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massively.com 16 days ago —
Funcom recently announced their plans to get older players back into Age of Conan and boost multi-month subscription rates. Players with inactive subscriptions are invited to retry the game for two weeks and receive a double experience bonus. ...
News: How much would you pay for The Secret World beta?
incomingpull.blogspot.com 21 days ago — Yeah, Age of Conan kind of blows, but would you subscribe to it if it got you a guaranteed spot in The Secret World beta? I'm still on the fence myself. Funcom is giving previous subscribers bonuses only if they come back to Hyboria for an extended stay. The announcement was made earlier this ...
Funcom To Cut Staff, The Secret World Delayed
edge-online.com 9/29/2009 — Age Of Conan developer Funcom will reportedly cut 20 per cent of its workforce and delay the release of its new PC and Xbox 360 MMO, The Secret World , by several months. read more
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One thing that's a main draw when it comes to introducing new game titles is to introduce a proper sense of mystery and curiosity in your product. For the appropriate level of this, you can go a lot of routes - you can inspire ...
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simple-n-complex.blogspot.com 10/2/2009 — By way of Twitter and the Hudson grabbing all news as it immediately happens (Mad News Skillz!)...seems Funcom is rolling in a 20% reduction of staff. This seems to affect Secret World the most, and discussion is that Age of Conan's expansion for ...
The Secret World — such a tease!
stylishcorpse.wordpress.com 21 days ago — Allow me to preface this with #TSW and #dowant — it’s part of my campaign to get noticed and get offered a beta spot. Won’t happen, but in the meantime I can annoy a whole lot of people on Twitter with it. DO WANT! And since Syp can post pix of him as a woman, I can post a ...
Feature: Funcom opens the door (a little) to The Secret World
news.bigdownload.com 9/14/2009 —
For the past couple of years Anarchy Online and Age of Conan developer Funcom have been giving hints about their next major MMO game called The Secret World . It's a game that's set in the modern day Earth but an Earth where all the conspiracies ...
News: Secret World delayed by Funcom lay-offs
eurogamer.net 9/29/2009 — 20 per cent of work force cut. Age of Conan developer Funcom announced that it's laying off 20 per cent of its workforce today, with the result of a delay of "several months" in the development of its next MMO, The Secret World. That's ...
Funcom Receives Grant For Online Winter Sports Game —
Gamasutra News 29 days ago
Developer and publisher Funcom has been granted NOK 1.5 million (US$260,000) by the Norsk Filminstitutt to develop On the Edge of the World, an online free-to-play sports game which will, in part, promote Norwegian winter sports, starting with ...