A couple of news items from Funcom and The Secret World in the past few weeks. Layoffs!!! Mentioned at the last stock meeting, Funcom announced that The Secret World did not meet expected sales numbers. This has prompted a series …
Well, I tried to work with time-boxing my game time as I mentioned last weekend, but failed miserably. I failed because as Victor from Games and Geekery mentioned in his comment, “Eve is a daunting, needy mistress”, and my alliance …
This Sunday, humanity takes one step closer to putting a person on a planet other than Earth. At 10:31pm PDT on Sunday, August 5th, the Mars Rover, Curiosity, will land on the red planet. That is, as long as it …
By now, I'm sure you've heard that SWTOR is going free-to-play. In my mind, this is a step in the right direction. The other part of the announcement is what I find encouraging… Over the coming months there will be …
Looking at my inbox this morning, I saw 2 items that I wanted to share. The first relates to The Secret World, the other item relates to The Hobbit. One month after launch, Funcom is throwing a party for The …
I decided to take a look at some of the blogs on my NBI Newbie and Sponsor lists last night and while I didn't get through more than a couple dozen, I found a couple of trends that I found …
Less than a month into it's live gameplay, The Secret World has announced it's first set of new content. Issue #1, “Unleashed” is set to be released at the end of the month with a bunch of updates: New missions …
Goldenstar over at A Casual Stroll to Mordor asks the question “Would You Join the Beta?” in her weekly poll, and I emphatically answered – YES! I've had great experiences in betas and on playtest servers in the past (StarFleet …
What do you get when you cross the building and exploration of Minecraft with the co-op and survival play of Left for Dead? Fortnite – a new game from Epic Games due out in 2013. From what was shown at …
This was another slow week for gaming, but marked the beginning of two big events in my gaming life. The first event was the early access for The Secret World. While I was excited to get to into the game …
