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Dive into the Secret World in this two-part walkthrough featuring new in-game environments with Lead Designer Martin Bruusgaard and Lead Content Designer Joel Bylos!

"Freedom of progression." It's a phrase Funcom uses to describe characters creation in The Secret World. They've done away with levels and classes, and hope to reshape the landscape of the MMO genre that's been mired in standards for years. But can it break through the confines of familiarity? EA S...

#occupied In the latest trailer for Funcom's The Secret World, a wannabe John Constantine discovers that the dark and gloomy things lurking just outside of the corner of your eye aren't too worried about invading your personal space. More »

Yesterday we spoke to The Secret World‘s project lead, Ragnar Tørnquist about the game’s factions, mythologies and more peculiar ideas. Today we get a bit deeper, and dig into the motivations behind it all. Why the recurring themes in Tørnquist’s work? Does he have an agenda? And why does most of gaming not? We have a good argument about the nature of truth, and ask where games are falling short. And then somehow again return to the topic of Ragnar’s death.

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Later on today we have the second part of our massive interview with The Secret World lead, Ragnar Tørnquist (first part here). In that one Ragnar and I end up having a bit of a “discussion” about the nature of truth and authorship, as well as ambiguous endings and where gaming needs to go next. In the meantime you can enjoy the latest CGI (cinematic) trailer for The Secret World, which is below. This one is mostly about wee.

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The secrets of The Secret World are slowly being revealed, with the latest being a new location for the MMO, the Savage Coast. A place that Stephen King might call home, Solomon Island plays host to abandoned carnivals, dark woods and, of course, a spooky lighthouse. And, uh, whatever that thing is.

Get a sneak peek at the tattered remains of the Savage Coast in this trailer for The Secret World!

#noreviler Funcom's upcoming supernatural MMO The Secret World reveals the dark truth New Englanders have tried in vain to hide behind their colorful leaves and inexpensive lobster dishes: The place is brimming with evil. More »

After spending some time at Funcom’s Oslo HQ to see The Secret World, I sat down with project lead Ragnar Tørnquist to chat about the game, the process that led up to it, and how it fits in with his philosophy of gaming. In part one of our chat we talk about the game’s origins, find out why we should care about each of the three factions, how Funcom is able to make games that don’t match the trends, some of the more peculiar and esoteric plans for blurring our realities, and finally how the game is going to inevitably lead to Tørnquist’s brutal murder.

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The first part of our enormous interview with Funcom’s Ragnar Tørnquist is appearing any minute, but just ahead of that there’s some new footage of The Secret World to see. And importantly, this is all in-game, rather than one of the (very impressive) CGI trailers. See it below.

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Funcom’s The Secret World is five years deep into development, and still some way off. But having spent a couple of days in their Norwegian HQ, I’m reasonably convinced it exists. I mean, it could just be one heck of an elaborate conspiracy. Below is my report on where things are just now, which I’m pleased to report is somewhere genuinely exciting. We also have four exclusive new screenshots, which you’ll only have to click on to enjoy.

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Every conspiracy theory is true in this secret world of fantasy and fairy tale. Learn more!

Amongst the ranks of the living dead, the Revenant holds a special place.

Amongst the ranks of the living dead, the Revenant holds a special place. No mere reanimated corpse, the Revenant has formed from the restless fragments of those who, in life, did great evil.

Enjoy the first minute or so of this trailer for The Secret World, because that's the only gameplay footage you're going to get. The rest of the trailer is devoted to flashing lots of conspiracy theories. Notably absent from the list: The undisputable fact that Elvis is still alive.

All of the legends you've ever heard are true. Believe it.

#watchthis Every legend; every myth; every conspiracy theory; they're all real, at least in the twisted realm of Funcom's massively multiplayer paranormal paranoia game The Secret World. Check out this latest trailer to see which of your wild beliefs hold true. More »

Afraid of what? Afraid of everything. The latest vid-o-flick for Funcom’s upcoming conspiracy MMO tackles pretty much every crazy theory going, and plenty of brand new ones too. THE TOWER OF BABEL NEVER FELL. THE OLD GODS ARE AWAKENING. ATLANTIS RISES. MINI BABYBELS ARE MADE FROM UNICORN HOOVES. (more…)

Four years ago, it was still reasonable to believe that we were on the verge of some kind of console MMO explosion. That's when Funcom unveiled The Secret World, an MMO in development for PC and Xbox 360 -- the first and last time there's been a definitive statement about the console version of the game to date. (A press release in January described The Secret World as "a next-generation massively multiplayer online game for the PC platform.")

What a surprise, then, to hear creative director Ragnar Tørnquist tell Eurogamer that he's "been very vocal in saying that when -- I guess also if -- we have a console version of The Secret World, it's not going to be exactly the same game." This is the first we've heard of a change in plans, even if we'd presumed that, at best, The Secret World console game had been secretly delayed.

While Tørnquist allowed that he had "a team" working "specifically" on an Xbox 360 version (at least at some point), he noted, "It's not something we're focusing on now. I think it will only happen if The Secret World turns out to be -- as of course it hopefully is -- a huge success. We will want to do things on other platforms; we will want to expand the universe. But it won't be the same game."

"You can still have the same setting; you can still have the same philosophies, the same basic systems," he said of a console version. "But you really need to make a different game. How different that will be, it's hard to say."

As for the PC version, Tørnquist told Eurogamer, "We're at the point where we know when the game is going to be released, but we're not quite ready to tell people yet." It's a secret.

I know about as little about The Secret World as the name of Funcom's next MMO implies. In the five years since its inception, I've only seen a few of the game's playable zones, little actual combat, and have never played it myself. It exists though, and today IGN brings you the latest trailer...

At GDC this year David Cage, the head of the studio behind Heavy Rain, talked about his issues with games as they currently are. More often than not, there's a distinction between the gameplay and the story. Take a game like Uncharted 2, where you'll be running and gunning and having a blast, but al...

See The Secret World in action in this extended gameplay footage from GDC 2011 with commentary by Lead Content Designer Joel Bylos!

The game demo continues as the visual storytelling and cutscenes lead into battles with unknown creatures.

Delve into the abilities and character stats of Secret World as Lead Designer Martin Bruusgaard takes the reigns of the GDC 2011 walkthrough.

Group events take the spotlight in Part IV of the GDC 2011 walkthrough as a local police station comes under attack by the zombie hordes.

A familiar cutscene is put into context as a new enemy is revealed!

Stonehenge's secrets are under contention in this king-of-the-hill style gameplay mode of The Secret World.

I’ve already talked a bit about The Secret World presentation at GDC today, now you can see the trailer they showed us at the end of the session. It’s embedded below, and shows off lots of locations and monsters, as well as talking up some of the big features. Good stuff. (more…)

#trailer Funcom takes us from New York to Egypt to do battle with everything from demons to dinosaurs in the epic Game Developers Conference trailer for its upcoming modern day supernatural MMO. More »