Funcom, maker of Anarchy Online and the upcoming Age of Conan, announced a new MMO, called The Secret World. It sounds to have a modern thriller conspiracy type setting. They are having a game before the game, where they release clues. When solved, you get presented with sneak peeks such as concept arts. The community seems pretty interesting. I will be following it closely in its development.

This creates an intriguing situation, as CCP Games, maker of EVE Online, merged with White Wolf a few months ago (press release here). One can only guess that CCP will be making a World of Darkness MMO. If that’s the case, that will be two modern setting MMOs from Europe competing with each other.