The struggling Norwegian gaming studio Funcom is working on a new project. Perhaps on Anarchy Online 2?
Joel Bylos was the Game Director of two games in Funcom’s stable until this month: The Secret World and Age of Conan. He has now left both positions, not to switch to a competitor, but to oversee a new project within Funcom. He did not specify what it is yet.
I’ve been asked to work on something that is super exciting and totally not something I am allowed to talk about, and the time commitment means that I can’t keep up my duties on TSW and AoC (AO I have been mostly advisory for a while anyway).
Based on the recent meager numbers, it wasn’t really expected that Funcom could handle something bigger. While fans, as reported by massivelyop, are keeping their fingers crossed that it might be for a sequel to the aging Anarchy Online, a disappointing solution for MMORPG fans seems likely: Perhaps a mobile game.
An MMORPG on the scale of Age of Conan, The Secret World or for its time Anarchy Online will likely be unaffordable. But one can hope.
