Kotaku writes:

"I was gonna try to get this up yesterday but then we had our site meltdown. However, I know all of you are interested in the online civil rights of Something Awful MMO guild members, and Funcom has stepped in to assure they will not be griefally profiled now or in the future on Age of Conan.

Here is a response from someone more senior than the GM who pleaded with the Goons to play nice. According to the Funcom customer service lead, that GM "made the honest mistake of giving out his personal opinion that maybe keeping a lower profile might be handy in avoiding a negative reputation."

Like SA ever gone out of its way to avoid a negative rep. Anyway, here's the clarified position on what is and ain't OK."
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IGN writes:

"Fresh off the heels of releasing an update to the highly successful Age of Conan MMORPG yesterday, developer Funcom has once again graced us with its presence by releasing yet another substantial patch hours after the previous update. For those keeping count, that's 2 patches within one day, if that's not love, we don't know what is. The patch notes, according to the game's official forums are listed in the article"
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GamingShogun writes: "PayByCash®, a division of Internet Payment Solutions, Inc., will provide non-credit card payment services for Funcom's much anticipated, award winning Age of Conan massively multiplayer online game for PC. With the support of PayByCash, Funcom can offer Age of Conan subscribers throughout the world access to premium content through more than 70 payment methods not requiring a credit card..."
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In a press release issued today, Funcom has quoted some fun statistics about the launch and several days after. As a result of the statistics, Funcom has toted Age of Conan as the "fastest selling game of all time."
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Age of Conan was just released to PC last week to much anticipation in the gaming community. The game's developers Funcom has already released a first patch for the game and some impressive early sales figures.
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Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400.000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from the North American market. This amazing figure for a PC game shows that the positive pre-order trend has transferred into actual sales, and people from all over the world are now flocking to the most savage, sexy and brutal MMO ever created.
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Due to popular demand, FunCom has launched nine new servers for its killer MMORPG, Age of Conan. These include:

PvE
Mannanan
Ajujo
Badisattah
Damballah
Hanuman

PvP
Bluesteel
Shadowblade
Scourge

PvP RP
Hyperborea
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Collector's Edition sold out even with an extended run of 110,000 units.

Funcom has announced that it has shipped around 700,000 copies of Age of Conan to retailers for day one, including 110,000 units of the sold-out Collector's Edition. Interest in the game has been so strong that Funcom has been unable to fulfill all orders in several markets due to current server capacity limitations. Extra orders of servers are now in place to ensure more customers can begin playing.
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Funcom has regrettably announced that the DirectX 10 version of its MMO, Age of Conan, will not ship with the initial launch. Funcom says it has decided to ship only the DirectX 9 version and spend more time on building a DirectX 10 version "worthy of Microsoft's great vision for the future of PC gaming".

The extra development time will give Funcom time to implement more features in the DirectX 10 version of Age of Conan than originally planned.
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Highlights this week include Wii Fit (Nintendo Wii), Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC), and Haze (PS3).

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of May 18, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!
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With just over a week until its European retail launch, Funcom has unleashed a heap of brand new media for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.

VideoGamer.com has 13 brand new screens and a hot off the press PVP "Siege sneak peek" video captured during a Q&A test run.
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Age of Conan developer Funcom has revealed that it intends to allow PC gamers to play with console gamers when the Xbox 360 version is released around this time next year.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com at the launch of one of 2008's most anticipated MMORPGs in Oslo, Norway, product director Jorgen Tharaldsen also threw PS3 owners a life line, saying it wasn't "ruling out" a version for Sony's console.

Tharaldsen revealed that following the release of the PC version of Age of Conan, which will go live on 17 May for gamers who have paid for early access codes, developer Funcom will split up into three sections, one to speak with players and fix problems, one to work on future expansion packs and one to work on the already announced Xbox 360 version. It has, Tharaldsen said, been working on the Xbox 360 version "for a long time".

When asked when the Xbox 360 version would be coming out, Tharaldsen said: "Next year... We're trailing about a year. No longer than a year. But we're pretty much Guinea pigging our way into the Xbox, just like Microsoft is. We are exploring frontiers on how to deal with the consoles and online games."

Tharaldsen said that the developer would like for PC and Xbox 360 players to be able to play together, and that Age of Conan will be "the same essence and the same experience" on Microsoft's console.
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There is a message on the Funcom forums saying that Early Access keys to the Age of Conan beta are now sold out and that access is closed...

However, it appears that people who actually have Early Access keys are also being locked out. It seems that Funcom's frustrated at people acquiring keys by pre-ordering the game before cancelling their orders.

"Pre-orders on accounts that was later cancelled will have their keys/account disabled," the site informs.

Full story though the link.
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AusGamers has been granted permission by Funcom to locally host a download mirror for the forthcoming MMO Age of Conan: The Hyborean Adventures. The massive 14gig file is now locally hosted for Australians, and the download speeds from AusGamers, thanks to the relaunching of their site, AusGamers 2.0, are incredibly fast adding incentive to get involved in the Beta for AoC if you live downunder.
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Videogamer writes: "Funcom won't rule out making available mounts similar to the pre-order exclusive War Mammoth and War Rhino.

Age of Conan developer Funcom has revealed that it intends to announce a "road map" for future content updates and expansions soon before the game's May 23 European release.

Speaking at the game's official launch in Oslo this afternoon, game director Gaute Godager took to the stage to reveal that while players who have not pre-ordered the game will never gain access to the pre-order exclusive War Rhino and War Mammoth mounts, the developer is "not ruling out the chance" that similar mounts will be made available some time in the future."
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Funcom has revealed that getting to level 80 in upcoming MMO Age of Conan will take on average 250 hours.

Speaking at the game's official launch in Oslo, Norway, Game Director Gaute Godager said that Age of Conan's "levelling curve provides on average 250 hours of gameplay".

He also explained that it will take between two to three hours to gain a level in the game right up to level 60. Gaining a level after that will take longer, a tweak the team made following feedback from the recent beta.
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VG247: Eidos just confirmed that the Age of Conan beta has hit a million sign-ups.

"Funcom has not been able to find any higher beta numbers for MMOs in the western world," said Morten Larssen, Funcom sales boss. "We believe it represents the largest ever beta sign-up figure in the history of the genre."

Tiny bit of bad news in there: the game's now down as a May 23 release in Europe, a three day trip from the previously confirmed May 20 date.
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Funcom has launched a feat calculator website that "is a tool for player to explore the various options available to them for their character's builds, without having to worry about in-game costs to retrain their feats."
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We've got two exclusive videos of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures to show you. They come from a demonstration of the PC game, hence the guy speaking enthusiastically into the microphone. With some swearing, which is why there's an age gate on the video. Well, that and the bra-less succubus ... » Read More

On the 10th of May Funcom is transforming the entire Open Beta into PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving testers access to all which Hyboria has to offer!
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