In the modern internet age we’ve become accustomed to developer diaries taking the form of videos in which we watch talking heads discuss different aspects of a game, from how the team created the sound effects, created the game engine, developed the story and more.

These video documentaries (or ViDocs - bleh) are even expected to be split up into smaller chunks so as to be more easily digestible. Around five minutes is more than most of us can take before we’re clicking onto something else.

In the old days of the internet, however…

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Funcom has released a batch of new screenshots for their upcoming massively multiplayer online game, The Secret World.

The Secret World, due for release on the 19th of June on PC and Xbox 360, sees three secret societies (the Illuminati, the Templars and the Dragon) battling for power when the world is plunged into darkness where monsters and magic are real.

Check out the new screenshots below, and feel free to browse through our previous coverage of The Secret World over here.

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Funcom has formally announced that the developer’s long in development and highly (highly) anticipated massively multiplayer online game, The Secret World, will launch in June this year following a successful period of beta testing and after receiving positive hands-on feedback.

Originally scheduled for an April release, Funcom and publisher EA made the important decision to push the release of The Secret World back in order to invest more development time and apply a few more layers of that all-important ‘polish.’

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EA’s press event gave us a taste of their line-up for the rest of year today in Cologne, Germany. At 15h30, 16 August 2011 a thousand people were crammed into a hall, waiting to see what EA’s vision of the future of games is.

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The Secret World, the third massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) to escape the minds of Funcom, is a game set in the modern world, only the modern world is hiding something… something that the government, your parents, your teachers and your friends don’t want you to know about, or choose to ignore themselves.

You can watch the debut cinematic trailer for The Secret World below:

This ‘Secret World’ co-exists with that of our own, and isn’t another dimension or another universe, but a world that exists just past the veil of reality.

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