“We thrive on creativity, changing technology and creative problem solving, and Funcom has been fun and collaborative to work with,” said Ralph Egas, Abstraction CEO. ‘”Dune’ represents the kind of epic IP that any developer would love to get their hands on, so we are honored to help Funcom achieve their vision for such a cool project”.  

“It’s been a pleasure working alongside Abstraction on much of the core technology powering our next open-world multiplayer game based on the Dune IP.” said Fred Richardson, Funcom CTO. “Their extensive technical knowledge and experience is proving invaluable in allowing us to push the boundaries of what we can do with Unreal.”

Visit the website: https://www.abstraction.games/game/dune

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The update introduces new exquisite weapons, ferocious armor and new arena building pieces to the The Exiled Lands. In total, there’s over 60 new items in total that you can wear or use to decorate your blood-soaked arena for friends and tribe mates.

Additionally, the game also launched a free update. This contains several various bug fixes, additional items and a PvP overhaul. The free update introduces the Battle Standard, which can be placed to create PvP zones. This will allow players to create massive arenas and fighting pits, even on PvE servers. Participating in PvP on PvE servers will be entirely optional.

All the new content in Blood and Sand is exclusive to this DLC and adds a host of new visual options, but does not give any in-game advantage in power. All the new items have comparable stats to existing items.

Well that’s that then. You have everything you need to paint your arenas red with the blood of friends or foe. For more information check out the official blog and the Steam store.

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The Warmaker’s Sanctuary is the game’s new endgame dungeon, containing some of the toughest foes to date and a brutal showdown with The Warmaker’s Champion. The dungeon is the fourth to be released since launch one year ago.

Several areas of the game have also received an overhaul, with new loot, recipes and bosses present all over Hyboria. Certain mechanics, including the temperature system, have also received attention from the developers, resulting in better balancing and a more intuitive functionality.

Key Features:
• New dungeon: The Warmaker’s Sanctuary
• Population revamp of faction capitals and caves
• New loot and recipes
• Temperature system update
• Agility and Survival attributes have been buffed
• Increased stack sizes for some resources
• Various balance changes
• A host of bugfixes

For more information about The Warmaker, check out the official blog and the Steam store.

Conan Exiles is an open world survival game set in the savage lands of Conan the Barbarian. After a successful Early Access run starting in January 2017, the game launched in full on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on May 8th 2018 and became one of Funcom’s best-selling and fastest-selling games to date. For more information about the Conan Exiles, visit www.conanexiles.com.

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Some might recognize Moons of Madness from before as developer Rock Pocket Games have previously shown early footage from an in-development prototype version. After Funcom came onboard, the two Norwegian studios got together and took the initial concept to new heights through expanded gameplay and scope to fully realize the potential of the bone-chilling story.

“With Funcom’s support we have been given the opportunity to do all the things we wanted to do with the game and the story,” said Ivan Moen, CEO of Rock Pocket Games. “ Moons of Madness has been an internal passion project of ours, one that we’ve worked on in-between other titles for other publishers, and now being able to fully focus on it and put all our creative energy into it is a dream come true.”

In Moons of Madness you play Shane Newehart, a technician stationed at the Invictus, a secret research base built by the Orochi group. Your low security clearance means you are completely unaware of the existence of a mysterious, intelligent signal that has been detected as coming from the red planet. Your job is simply to keep the lights on until the transport ship Cyrano arrives bringing with it a new team to take over your duties. Soon you discover strange and unusual setbacks. Crucial systems are malfunctioning, the greenhouse is filled with a strange mist and the rest of your team has yet to return from their EVA mission. You begin seeing and hearing things that aren’t there. Visions, hallucinations – or is that even what it is? Is this real… or are you slowly descending into madness?

Moons of Madness draws upon the rich lore and mythology of Funcom’s Secret World Legends. Both games exist in the same thematic universe, but playing one is not a prerequisite to enjoy the other.

The game will be released on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 during the Halloween season 2019. For more information, please visit www.moonsofmadness.com.

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Funcom’s urban legend horror MMORPG Secret World Legends is a year old today. The game will turn on its anniversary event celebrations some time on the 20th and it will last until July 11th. During the event, players will be able to grab some sweet looking rewards. These includes a Bee Dog and brand new emotes and poses for player characters. Previews below.

A Very Good Dog.

Coming soon to an Anniversary near you! pic.twitter.com/SBFvnNSGvN

— Secret World Legends (@SecretWorldLgds) June 15, 2018

WITNESS: All-new sprint effects! pic.twitter.com/Rc0PyTLBj5

— Secret World Legends (@SecretWorldLgds) June 19, 2018

In addition to new sprint effects and outfits, players can finally sit on chairs! Not exactly what you were hoping for if you want content, but hey, at least now you can sit right?

Unfortunately, no further details are out yet regarding what else is coming with the anniversary. Traditionally on The Secret World, anniversaries will feature big boss hunting events which sends you around the world to farm trade in tokens for loot bags. We’ll have to wait and see if that returns to Legends this year.

Besides that, SWL will also turn on a brand new refer a friend feature. Players who invite friends to play the game and level up to hit certain milestones will be rewarded – their invited friends get rewards too. Rewards includes Anima Shards and Cache Keys. More info on this here.

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A New Combat System

The new combat system is very different and a huge improvement on the old one. The new system for Conan Exiles will have the brutal, tactical and savage combat which a Conan game deserves.

The first thing you might notice is the new visual style. All weapons (swords, daggers, hammers, maces, spears, great swords etc) are getting their own attacks and animations. The attacks consist of a wide range of lunges, sweeps, jumps, cleaves, slashes and dashes. This makes combat much more fluid and interesting with a host of different attacks to perform.

All weapons have different light and heavy attacks which can be chained one after the other. Every attack in the chain is different, with the finishers often being particularly potent. The different weapons also cause different effects as you keep landing hits in the chain. For example, daggers add bleed, great swords cripple and hammers sunder. You can combine light and heavy attacks as you see fit without breaking the chain.

With a host of new attacks, effects and weapons the new tactical possibilities of combat have been greatly increased.  Dash in with daggers and add stacks of bleed, before using the unique dagger backflip to escape enemy retaliation. Sweep away groups of enemies with powerful cleaves of your great sword and cripple their movement so they can’t run away.

Gameplay Changes And Content Rebalance

A major change is that players no longer heal over time as they play Conan Exiles. This can of course make many battles much harder as it is no longer possible to just run away, automatically heal up and then just return to the action.

Now you must eat food or drink potions to regain your health and all healing is done over time. Luckily there are so many types of food to eat in the game, from simple cooked meat to honeyglazed roast for example. This makes gathering resources for food and alchemy extremely important as you won’t last long in the wilderness without something to eat to regain your health.

Farming has been added to make it a bit easier to get your hands on many of these resources. You can now build planters in your base which allow you to grow different kinds of crops, like lotus flowers used in potions or for example hops, leavening or highland berries.

For launch we are adding an all new religion to Conan Exiles. Derketo is the goddess of both fertility and death. Her dual nature makes her avatar a sight to behold, as one half of its body is rotted away while the other is that of a beautiful woman.

With world map greatly increasing in size it can take quite some time to travel from one region to another. To make this process easier, there is a map room which you can build in your own settlement. It is shaped like a map of the Exiled Lands and is quite large and detailed. As you explore the world you will discover monoliths which you can attune to your bracelet. Once attuned you can teleport to that monolith from your map room. There is no easy way back, apart from dying and respawning on your bed, but with the map room you will at least be able to quickly travel to remote places in the Exiled Lands.

In addition to all the new features and content coming to Conan Exiles, the team also worked on rebalancing the content. They have also changed areas where creatures spawn and how they behave in the world. You won’t see large groups of random monsters just wandering the map like before, instead they have more specialized habitats and act more naturally in the world. You may notice that only the red shalebacks attack you on sight, as they are the more aggressive males or that when you are in an area infested with spiders you will see their nests and webs along the cliffsides.

The rebalance has also been done to feats, crafting ingredients, where you find resources and crafting recipes. It has been done to make the game deeper and more interesting in all phases. So if you are a returning player you will see that a whole host of little changes have been made.

These are some of the new things you can look forward to as Conan Exiles are nearing launch. If you already own the game, it won’t hurt to jump back in and experience these changes.

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The Morninglight Infiltrated

Once you’ve completed the climax to season one’s Tokyo storyline, you should receive a text message from a mysterious source, and that’s your ticket into South Africa to begin season 2. But even before that, your first log-in post update brings up a new screen, which promotes the Collector’s Edition for Dawn of the Morninglight, which costs 19.99 Euros and can be purchased on both Steam and via In-game. The CE comes with a new outfit, pet and Agent Dossier, which is completely optional and not needed to play the expansion content.

Back to South Africa, and that mysterious source isn’t as mysterious as you may think. You have been given a golden opportunity to infiltrate The Morninglight’s operations in the region, to uncover what exactly is going on here, and what the head of the cult, Phillipe Marquard, is up to. It’s not going to be a simple knock on the door and get what you want kinda gig however, and you must blend in and indoctrinate yourself to the ways of the Morninglight in order to gain ranks and get closer to Marquard’s inner circle. On top of that, it’s important to note that you went on this once-in-a-lifetime joyride without the consent of your faction and handler.

A High Stakes Undercover Main Mission

The entirety of the new map takes place within New Dawn, a three tiered compound that’s isolated from the outside world, and it is here, where The Morninglight sends its recruits to get radicalized in the ways of the cult. Since communications are not available, players won’t be able to communicate with their faction handlers and must work with an inside source to climb up the ladder. You start as a Foundling, the lowest of the low in the New Dawn community, with crappy accommodations and even crappier tasks. You’ll need to complete missions and side missions during the day to earn Ascension Points, as you progress the main story of Season 2.

As a Foundling, you’ll be doing cleaning, farming and office boy tasks, which is new for the game. Once you hit a certain threshold of points, you can then move on to the next tier of the New Dawn map, which also means you’ve been promoted to Anointed, which comes with a new colored jumpsuit and slightly better quality of life. This is pretty much how the progression works here for some achievements, and it’s quite a slow journey to make the highest rank through earning points.

It’s going to take a lot of repeatable daily side missions and action missions, which helps with immersion I guess. But to progress the main story, you won’t need to slog through the points grind, and there will be a shortcut to get to Anointed to progress the story. After which, you can continue doing the daily point content to gain ranks the legitimate way.

A Story Full Of Twists And Turns

The biggest compliment I can give Funcom with DoM is that the quality of the storytelling is still top notch. One might think that with all that the game’s gone through; the relaunch, the remolding of the dev team etc etc, the quality would suffer as a result. I’m glad to be proven wrong on this occasion. Those that have stuck with the game through vanilla and Tokyo that are familiar with the story will be rewarded. There are plenty of “payoff” plots that ties up narrative loose ends involving key characters, in addition to revealing the next play zone.

While the adventure is somewhat short-lived, the game will be adding more content to flesh out the New Dawn map in the near future. We haven’t seen investigation missions yet, and it’s likely that they will be added in the next month or so as these are some of the best quests in the game. Overall, for a free story expansion, Dawn of the Morninglight offers a bunch of narrative driven fun that rewards players who’ve stuck to this quirky adventure since 2012.

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The next chapter of Secret World Legends’ epic storyline is here! For the first time since Funcom’s modern-day massively multiplayer online game went from the subscription-based The Secret World to the free-to-play Secret World Legends, Funcom is now adding a free story update that continues the already epic storyline of the game and expands into a whole new location: South Africa. Dawn of the Morninglight is a completely free update that launches on April 4^th 2018.

Up until now, players have had the chance to visit New England, Egypt, and Transylvania in Secret World Legends, battling monsters drawn straight out of the myths, urban legends, and nightmares of our own, real world. With Dawn of the Morninglight the story is expanded into South Africa. Here players must infiltrate the compound belonging to the Morninglight, a cult that prides itself as being “the fastest growing spiritual movement in history”. As they rise up within their ranks, players will experience a brand new, fully voice-acted storyline where they must battle creatures inspired by ancient South African folklore and uncover the sinister truths of the Morninglight cult.

“This is it, this is the next chapter every Secret World player have been waiting for,” says Josh Mills, Producer for Secret World Legends. “Ever since we left off in Tokyo before going free-to-play, players have been wanting to know what happens next. The whole team is really excited to finally be able to provide some answers to that and taking the story into a location such as South Africa has been an absolute blast. This is Secret World Legends unlike you’ve ever seen it before.”
Secret World Legends was released on June 26^th and went on to exceed Funcom’s expectations for the title, breathing new life into the Secret Worlduniverse. Set within a dark and mature story universe, Secret World Legends plunges players into a sweeping adventure into the supernatural underbelly of myths and legends that exists in the shadows of our own realm. Travel the globe in pursuit of mysterious forces threatening the world, using your wits and abilities to solve complex investigations and uncover the truth.
Funcom also announced last year that Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil have acquired the rights to produce a TV show based on The Secret World.

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Are you short of Anima Shards of Secret World Legends? Fret not, Funcom is having a double shards event to help players stock up on Anima Shards this weekend. Beginning Thursday January 18th, players will receive twice the amount of shards from completing missions and killing mobs. The event will run until Sunday the 21st.

Anima Shards have many uses in SWL. For starters, you’ll need them to upgrade your weapons and talismans. If you’re into decorating your Meuseums, the cost in Anima Shards can skyrocket as well. So this weekend is the best time to go out and farm them.

The double shards event is just one of many upcoming events that Funcom plans to offer players. Earlier this week, Secret World Legends introduced an update that will allow for more similar type events to be introduced in the near future.

With regard to brand new content, there is no word at the moment regarding the Dark Agartha and Season 2. Both appear to be in development, and players are anxiously waiting to see new stories and adventures in Secret World Legends.

For more information, check out the official website here.

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