In the harshly competitive MMO landscape, where huge financial hurdles and the mere existence of Blizzard's World of Warcraft make any new release seem hopeless, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has taken its first few steps toward establishing a healthy playerbase.



Hundreds of thousands of eager gamers have been following the progress of WAR as it moved through development, into beta, and finally release in September 2008. …  More

From a high of $55.50 in June, Funcom's stock is now down to $5.32.  For the math challenged that is 9.5% of what it was shortly after Age of Conan's release. 

It should come at no surprise when the game's manager left Funcom and  then last week they noted they were going to "change direction" and become more player centric. 

The latest news on the most recent MMO to tank comes from the AoC forums.  Game director Craig Morrison told users that "we are actively working on an approach to merg…  More

In what should come as a "too little too late" cliche, Funcom is changing things up for Age of Conan.  Changing things up as in trying not to suck?  Hopefully. 

The game's director left last week to other pastures noting, "I have done my very best making this fabulous game, but I have concluded there are elements which I am dissatisfied with. I have decided to act on this, and as a result I have chosen to leave Funcom".  Now this week Funcom is promising a ‘Player-Centric’ direction from…  More