Funcoms freemium sword and sorcery MMORPG Age of Conan has received a large new update, available now automatically for those who have the game installed. The patch introduces the House of Crom, an ancient temple built by the Atlanteans and made up of two large dungeons. The largest indoor dungeons created to date the developers claim. Theres plenty of other good stuff in there including improvements, tweaks and bug fixes as well.
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Funcom has a couple announcements for its MMORPG Age of Conan. First, the title is heading the free-to-play route this summer. Second, theres a new update which adds a bunch of class tweaks notes after the break.
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Community updates and rumor about Age of Conan
There are no plans on releasing an Xbox 360 version any time soon, said Funcoms Erling Ellingson. But the PC version is full steam ahead.
Paradox Entertainment and Funcom have announced the production of the first episode of Age of Conan Hyboria! which is a comedy web based series based in the Conan universe featuring Mike Fasolo of Robot Chicken fame.
Funcom are getting ready to launch v2.1 on the live servers and with this update comes a new PvP mini-game and the map The Call of Jhebbal Sag. Today the dev team have detailed the new PvP ruleset and matchmaking features coming in the update.
Funcom is offering a limited-edition premium subscription pack special for its Age of Conan players. Available only until September 30th.
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