Tag Archives: Joel Bylos

Well, this is just lovely. The Secret World: Issue #6 contains a train journey which players are tasked with interrupting, but one intrepid livestreamer decided to see what would happen if she simply stayed on The Last Train to Cairo. After thirteen hours, game director Joel Bylos turned up and rewarded her faith with a trip to Tokyo – an in-development zone which fans are very, very keen to see. Bylos let the livestream continue, with the result that you can relive the experience on Twitch – just skip the first 13 hours and 47 minutes.

Thanks, Massively.

The next monthly update for The Secret World, Issue #5, includes a much requested feature, a mysterious new weapon, and some really interesting-sounding new story elements.

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The Secret World isn’t going free-to-play “anytime soon,” Funcom has reiterated.

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The Secret World’s lead content designer has segued neatly into a new position of game director, putting him in charge of the MMORPG’s planned monthly content updates.

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“Wii U could be the first real console on which running an MMORPG without compromise is plausible. The controller is perfect for lining up those rows of hotbars that are essential in most MMOs. A customisable touchscreen interface combined with the 3D spatial movement of a console controller could be a winner.” – Funcom developer Joel Bylos to Official Nintendo Magazine.

The freeform character building of The Secret World doesn’t just free players from the strictures of class, it makes them want to experiment.

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It’s been all of two weeks since we heard anything from The Secret World, but things are still ticking over on the conspiracy-riddled MMO. We all know about the big picture, three factions facing off over the future of humanity – but what about the smaller elements? The micro, as you will?

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Some new screens and a video showing the wolf mount for Age of Conan’s Rise of the Godslayer expansion were released by Funcom this week.

Dunno if we would ever want to ride a wolf that harbored a maw like that one – but to each his own.

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