Funcom's supernatural conspiracy MMO recently got a reboot, and now it's getting its own television show. Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil and G4C Innovation have teamed up to produce a live-action TV series based on The Secret World. Or Secret World Legends. Whichever.

Funcom's pay-to-play, modern-day paranormal MMO The Secret World relaunches on June 26 as the free-to-play Secret World Legends, delivering the exact same content in a slightly different way. As a player of the original game, the whole thing is downright weird.

Despite a unique setting, inventive quests and genuinely creepy vibe, Funcom's supernatural MMO The Secret World doesn't get a lot of play, so they're taking all of the content from that game and putting it into a free-to-play online action RPG called Secret World Legends.

Norwegian developer Funcom has been making waves lately with Conan Exiles, but for me they will always the studio behind science fiction MMO Anarchy Online. The 16-year-old game finally hit Steam this week, so I hopped back in to create my first new character in a long, long time.

Conan Exiles' gleefully dangling unmentionables could one day become a hot in-game collectible. During a Reddit AMA session held over the weekend, developer Funcom put ritual castration on the table.

In the never-ending battle between pirates and DRM makers, there are no easy victories. Or at least, that was the case with notorious anti-tamper tech Denuvo until, well, yesterday.

Before you step completely naked (server settings willing) onto the hot sands of Conan Exiles' barbaric wasteland, there are a few adjustments to be made. Here's a not safe for work trip through the game's NSFW character creation, dick sliders and all.

Funcom's taking its Conan licence to a much harsher environment next year with Conan Exiles, an open-world survival game that challenges players to tame a barbarian wasteland and uncover its secrets. Xbox One players will be able to get in on the action next autumn via the preview program.

Video: Coming to Steam on October 25, Hide and Shriek is an online game that tasks two players with scaring the living shit out of each other. Developer Funcom has released a new trailer demonstrating exactly how that works.

Recently Fun.com announced a series of Marvel and DC "secret identity" suits, which let you wear fancy threads with a hidden bit of comic-book geekery. The company's latest suits, however, throw all that subtlety out of the window in favour of full-on suit insanity.

Funcom, makers of The Secret World, The Longest Journey, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, announced earlier this morning that their forums have been compromised and user data exposed.

Remember Age of Conan? The MMO based on Robert E. Howard's burly sword-swinging, princess-saving warrior? While it got off to a cracking start, it quickly lost gas and like many other so-called "WoW killers", faded into obscurity. Developer Funcom kept on trucking, but things weren't looking good for the Norwegian studio until this month, when its financial fortunes changed dramatically.

The Park opens with a boat ride. The player travels a set path and is told a story they have probably heard before, interrupted by the odd jump scare. It's excellent foreshadowing.

What a difference getting rid of microtransactions and adding a price tag makes.

Well there's an odd turnabout. LEGO Minifigures Online, Funcom's kid-friendly LEGO Diablo, has finished up its run as a free-to-play game and is relaunching June 29 as a paid experience for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

A new starting area, tweaked visuals, sweeping profession balance changes — today the fourteen-year-old Anarchy Online received the biggest update its seen in ages, as well as the first $US15 from me since I stopped playing in 2005.

A German ad for the next wave of LEGO Minifigures — and by extension the next set of playable characters for LEGO Minifigures Online — has surfaced, proving that really weird dreams do come true.

Meet Bumblebee Girl. Isn't she adorable, with her little wings and pot of honey and ability to completely obliterate skeletons, pirates and trolls with her area-of-effect attacks? It may look cute, but LEGO Minifigures Online is a challenging Diablo-style game.

The Oslo headquarters of MMO developer Funcom found itself under siege this morning, as Norwegian economic crime unit Økokrim launches an investigation into suspected infringement of the provisions of the Securities Trading Act revolving the 2012 launch of The Secret World.