Our latest coverage of The Secret World. 171g3s
The Secret World fans who missed getting a copy of Star Anvil Studios’ tabletop version of the supernatural MMORPG during its Kickstarter drive last October can now pre-order the game through crowdfunding site Backerkit. The pre-order bundle includes a copy of the 240-page rulebook, a power deck, and a 150-page art book. The bundle is available in digital format for [...]
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The Secret World community is currently in disarray over the sudden disappearance of the game’s official page. Prior to its disappearance, fans and existing players could still purchase the original game and create new s but any attempts to do so now redirects s to The Secret World Legends website instead. This could be chalked up to one of [...]
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Star Anvil Studios has managed to secure over $150,000 in pledges as the Kickstarter campaign for its The Secret World tabletop RPG comes to a close. That’s well over the studio’s initial funding goal of $40,000 which it quickly reached within the first day of the crowdfunding drive’s opening. Backers have also unlocked multiple stretch goals over the course [...]
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The Kickstarter campaign for Star Anvil Studios’ The Secret World tabletop RPG continues to gather more backers as it blows past the $100k mark with 16 days still left in the crowdfunding drive. As of this writing, the game has received over $111,000 worth of pledges and seven out of the eight stretch goals have already been unlocked, including additional [...]
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If you want to take a break from staring at your PC screen but still want to get your Secret Worlds fix, then you might want to keep an eye out for Star Anvil Studios’ The Secret World tabletop RPG. The tabletop game is still currently in the works and is being funded through a $40,000 Kickstarter campaign that kicked [...]
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Funcom’s The Secret World has suddenly re-appeared on digital shelves after the studio stopped selling the game way back in 2018. Note that this is the original 2012 MMORPG and not the Secret World Legends remake. According to a Reddit post, the game once again available for purchase on Amazon and GameStop. We couldn’t find a listing for the game [...]
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Funcom announced today that its free-to-play, shared-world RPG revamp of The Secret World, Secret World Legends, will be launching on Steam on June 26th. On that day, players will be able to either experience or re-experience its modern-day setting with supernatural threats either alone or with friends. A new action combat system that utilizes a "forced reticle," a new system [...]
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So it turns out that the move to Secret World Legends is happening much faster than I think most of us anticipated. According to a Steam Community update from two days ago, the revamp's Closed Beta began two days ago and, according to Massively, invites have indeed already gone out to several people. Invites will be sent out in waves, [...]
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Funcom, the Oslo, Norway based games studio, has published more information on the "relaunch" of their conspiracist themed, modern era MMORPG The Secret World. The Secret World, originally released in 2012, will relaunch this Spring as Secret World Legends. Tellingly, the studio is labeling Secret World Legends as a story-driven, shared-world action RPG rather than using the previous MMORPG [...]
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Funcom's recently released fourth quarter financial report, along with the easy-to-read PowerPoint presentation, has some fascinating news: The Secret World will relaunch in the first half of 2017. Major improvements are incoming, including an overhaul of the combat system, an element that has long been criticized, though I personally never minded. Redesigned new player experience Major improvements to gameplay including [...]
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