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Funcom is now working on at least six new games, including a new open-world multiplayer title
Man, just a couple of years ago, there was serious concern that Funcom wouldn't make it another quarter, and now here we are in...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the most needlessly obtuse stats
One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO gives you the best choices for character growth?
Between the talent panel and the new Heart of Azeroth interface, World of Warcraft's dev team certainly has embraced the concept of streamlined "interesting...
Battle Bards Episode 126: Out of this world
It’s time to boldly go where no podcast has gone before — by exploring MMO space themes! It’s perhaps the flat-out goofiest and silliest...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
Happy 17th birthday, Anarchy Online – Funcom is celebrating with a free-play week
If your first memory of playing Anarchy Online consists of a horrifying slog through alpha, as mine does, then you might be wondering how...
Anarchy Online teases upcoming 17th anniversary event
Happy 17th birthday, Anarchy Online! Seventeen years ago this month, Funcom first stepped out onto the MMORPG scene and "launched" this sci-fi title. We...
Funcom Q1 2018 financials: Conan Exiles will be the studio’s ‘bestselling game of all time’
A year ago, MMO fans were thrilled to find out that Funcom had had its best quarter in ages thanks to the early access...
Take a trip through Funcom’s 25-year history
From 1994's A Dinosaur's Tale to 2018's Mutant Year Zero, Funcom has blazed its own path through the video game genre as a developer...
Funcom reports that 2017 was the most profitable year in its history
With significantly higher revenue and sales coming in 2017, Funcom announced to its investors that it just came off the most profitable year in...
Age of Conan rolls out brand-new forums, with Secret World Legends and Anarchy Online to follow
It's been a big week for the supposedly-in-maintenance-mode Age of Conan: First it got a new time-limited progression server, then it lowered its sub...
The Daily Grind: Are we due for a good cyberpunk MMO?
I am a generally big fan of the cyberpunk genre, especially when it works in a healthy dose of '80s aesthetics for that clunky,...
Battle Bards Episode 113: Anarchy Online
Alien, quiet, and weird — that’s the Anarchy Online soundtrack for you in a nutshell. For the first episode of 2018, the ever-contentious Battle...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2018
This is, bar none, the column I hate doing most on a regular basis. None of the games I highlight in here is something...
The Game Archaeologist: Neocron
It's the distant future. The high-tech battle armor you wear sharply contrasts with the ruins of civilization that you traverse. You spot an enemy...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
Funcom is launching a ‘saga server’ specialty shard for Age of Conan called Saga of Zath
So much for maintenance mode: It appears that Funcom has plans yet for Age of Conan, if the studio's email to players and post...
Anarchy Online might be considering a new fresh start server
Sometimes all it takes to light a fire under a gaming community is a simple poll.
Funcom sparked a bonfire of interest by asking fans...
Anarchy Online and Age of Conan host an arrested development sale
Just because an MMORPG's development has been put into suspended animation doesn't mean that profit still can't be made! To wit, check out Funcom's...
Identity answers player questions, gives game overview
A trio of Identity's developers sat down for an extended question-and-answer session about what's happening with the creation of this virtual life simulator. The...
