[PC Gameworld] What prompted you to create Shadowlands?

[Jørgen Tharaldsen] The players - without them we would not have existed. But it’s our esteemed visionary and Game Director Gaute Godager who is the mastermind behind Shadowlands, with a lot of help from the huge staff on AO. The Funcom vision is to always be original and push the envelope forward in terms of creativity. The influences that are behind this game come from all of these people as well as the entire world around us. From the physical to the metaphysical, the abstract to the concrete, from other games, from books and movies… we draw upon all of these things to create our own masterpiece that answers the need to take the game to the next level.