Jørgen Tharaldsen works as the Product Director in Funcom, one of the world’s leading developers and publishers of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs). Funcom is the only stock-listed MMO company in Europe, and Jørgen has worked on various Funcom titles like Anarchy Online, Dreamfall, The Longest Journey, Age of Conan and The Secret World. He has been working with games and entertainment for the last 15 years, and has followed the evolution of virtual worlds and MMO gaming ever since the genre came about.

The future of Virtual Universes

As people spend more and more time in virtual online universes, so are the companies behind them spending ever more resources on creating larger and more involving experiences. With Funcom as the case-example, Product Director Jørgen Tharaldsen will take us through the evolution the online gaming space, while at the same time shedding light on the incredible opportunities ahead. As a part of the talk he will also demonstrate material from Funcom’s highly anticipated MMO Age of Conan, which is arguably the most anticipated virtual universe in development today.