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The latest Lego game launches next week across mobile and desktop platforms, but will no longer be free-to-play.

The Secret World is celebrating its second anniversary with some bonuses, new missions, and a rampaging Golem in Tokyo.

Lego Minifigures Online, the browser-based MMO from Funcom, is now available in open beta.

Kids nowadays, gadding about with their 'Krampus this' and 'Krampus that,' have forgotten who Christmas is really about: Santa. Thankfully The Secret World is taking this Krampus cad to task, as its festive event involves fighting the rotter, and his pal Hel. We can yet save Christmas!

Lego Minifigures Online has opened sign-ups for its closed beta test, the first phase of which will launch later this month.

Secret World developer Funcom has announced Lego Minifigures Online, a free-to-play MMO coming next year that ties into the minifigure toy sets.

Funcom is in the process of a major restructuring, which is said to involve the closure and consolidation of some studios while streamlining to provide central support for its various MMOs.

As does tend to happen with MMOs that are neither World of Warcraft nor EVE Online, The Secret World is shaking up its business model and dropping subscriptions. The $15 monthly fee is optional from today, barely five months after launch, but you do still need to buy Funcom's real-world-ish supernatural MMORPG to play. You know, like how Guild Wars 2 works.

Funcom has prided itself on deviating somewhat from the standard MMORPG mould in The Secret World, and the fourth update--the "biggest update yet," so it says--demonstrates that fairly nicely. Along with a new 10-person raid set across New York City, Issue #4 will add a theatre you can hire to put on your own plays for people to come and see, a new video demonstrates. All right, that's pretty unexpected for an MMORPG.