http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox-360/news/<p><a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-world-templars-week-kicks-new-screens/"><span class="cms_image None"><img alt="" src="http://c3333424.r24.cf0.rackcdn.com/37c22236e65beb80d5bd5ff6166168b75dafb627.jpg__620x269_q85_crop_upscale.jpg" /></span></a></p><p>The latest stage of Funcom's marketing for The Secret World revolves around the Templars, described as “the most uncompromising and traditional” of the three in-game factions. In the biggest public-awareness campaign for any secret society in recent memory, the <a href="http://www.thesecretworld.com/" target="_blank">website</a>'s Week of the Templars is here to make sure you know the London-based zealots back to front, starting with some new screens... </p> http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-world-templars-week-kicks-new-screens/Nov. 14, 2011, 2:58 p.m.<p><a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-world-new-screenshots-give-you-stink-eye/"><span class="cms_image None"><img alt="" src="http://c3333424.r24.cf0.rackcdn.com/5d3a2637d9d30f6bd13c1f41a42113f060607f05.jpg__620x262_q85_crop_upscale.jpg" /></span></a></p> <p>&#160;Here's a batch of fresh screenshots for next year's PC MMO The Secret World. If the first batch of screens were unified by one thing, it was their intense combat focus – whereas the dominant theme of these pics seems to be “brooding conspiracists giving the viewer their best tough-guy grimace.” Stare down the extremist Templars, amoral Illuminati and chaotic-neutral Dragon in a few of the game's hidden-in-plain-sight locales below...</p>http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-world-new-screenshots-give-you-stink-eye/Oct. 25, 2011, 2:16 p.m.<p> <!-- Start of Brightcove Player --> <div style="display:none"> </div> <object id="video_1218774298001" class="BrightcoveExperience"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="620" /> <param name="height" value="349" /> <param name="playerID" value="659334583001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAAAj351Crk~,sG79KNLUHM5SYCjMdtixMe_0vaW6zOoJ" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="autoStart" value="false" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="1218774298001" /> </object> <div id="video_url_1218774298001" style="display:none">None</div> <!-- End of Brightcove Player --> </p><p>Massively multiplayer online games have changed since they first crawled out of the primordial soup, but they've still remained unevolved in many ways. Combat, level progression, and player-versus-player elements have grown, but not in huge ways, and that's something The Secret World is looking to change. In this developer diary the creators not only explain their game's interesting lore, but show how, where, and why the PvP takes place, giving us a taste of what we can expect when the game releases next year (hopefully).</p>http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-worlds-new-developer-diary-exposes-pvp-secrets/Oct. 14, 2011, 2:45 p.m.http://www.gamesradar.comhttp://n4g.com/news/838116/guarantee-the-secret-world-beta-accessSept. 6, 2011, 12:39 p.m.<p><a href="http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-world-funcom-launches-beta-registration-arg/"><span class="cms_image None"><img alt="" src="http://c3333424.r24.cf0.rackcdn.com/d739a50e625450e5b28f1cd937672bf05491ebcd.jpg__620x131_q85_crop_upscale.jpg" /></span></a></p> Wake-up call, citizen. The world you live in is a shallow simulacrum of the real one, with secret societies and back-room backstabbers controlling how you live, work and think. And now you've got the chance to play a videogame about them! Funcom's action-MMORPG, The Secret World, is gearing up for its upcoming beta, and it wouldn't be a conspiracy-themed supernatural thriller if there weren't some sort of ARG component to the proceedings. Want in on the beta? You'll have to jump through some game-ified, social-media, alternate-reality, welcome-to-2011 hoops for it...http://www.gamesradar.com/secret-world-funcom-launches-beta-registration-arg/Aug. 30, 2011, 11:05 a.m.http://www.gamesradar.comhttp://n4g.com/news/832122/the-secret-world-begins-beta-soonAug. 26, 2011, 6:21 p.m.<div id="video1041047642001" class="video_html"> <!-- Start of Brightcove Player --> <div style="display:none"> </div> <object id="video_1041047642001" class="BrightcoveExperience"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="620" /> <param name="height" value="349" /> <param name="playerID" value="659334583001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAAAj351Crk~,sG79KNLUHM5SYCjMdtixMe_0vaW6zOoJ" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="autoStart" value="false" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="1041047642001" /> </object> <div id="video_url_1041047642001" style="display:none">None</div> <!-- End of Brightcove Player --> </div> <br> <p>Funcom's Secret World has been a long time brewing: first teased in an online ARG in 2007, the game's hype has been a slow but intriguing trickle of Templar seals, Illuminati lore and Mayan prophecy. Between titles like Assassin's Creed and the widespread obsession with all things 2012, that's an increasingly crowded field &#8211; so Funcom's ability to start showing off some solid glimpses of the game itself is well-timed. Though a release date's still a ways off &#8211; expect the game late this year or early next &#8211; this new trailer shows that the overarching &#8220;Savage Coast&#8221; game-world is in a state worth sharing...</p>http://www.gamesradar.com/new-secret-world-trailer-previews-combat-in-savage-coast-area/July 7, 2011, 6:42 p.m.http://www.gamesradar.comhttp://n4g.com/news/746072/lead-writer-of-the-secret-world-talks-about-charactersApril 18, 2011, 6:20 p.m.http://www.gamesradar.comhttp://n4g.com/news/738115/secret-world-would-be-different-on-consoleApril 7, 2011, 2:21 p.m.<div style="DISPLAY: none"></div> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"><!-- //--> </script><object id="myExperience821500923001" class="BrightcoveExperience"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="width" value="620"><param name="height" value="349"><param name="playerID" value="659334583001"><param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAAAj351Crk~,sG79KNLUHM5SYCjMdtixMe_0vaW6zOoJ"><param name="isVid" value="true"><param name="isUI" value="true"><param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true"><param name="@videoPlayer" value="821500923001"></object><!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. 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