Funcom team is never short on news, and this Friday, they have announced the release of a major client update and a new wave of Beta invitations for those lucky enough to stick around the official forums. Additionally, all current testers will be participating this weekend in a Capture the Flag PvP minigame, similar to what was shown in DragonCon.
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22 Oct 2007

The women of Hyboria

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Oct 22, 2007 According to Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures community team, “Hyboria will be FILLED with women of all kinds, from the “to be expected” female prostitutes to the extremely able female fighters.” They go on to reveal that in contrast to the more sexist setting of Robert E. Howards world, “any female player in Hyboria should be just as strong and able as any ... » Read More

20 Oct 2007

Age of Conan - The Women of Hyboria, new screenshots

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Hyboria will be filled with women of all kinds, from the "to be expected" female prostitutes to the extremely able female fighters. In addition to a large selection of clothes, armor, and whatnot, Funcom is delivering a character creation tool which allows for a stunning variety in looks and appearance.
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3 Sep 2007

Funcom talks siege warfare

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Funcom has cried havoc and let slip details of the siege warfare in Age of Conan.

It will let you and your guild members take part in massive battles in the Border Kingdom area, earning prestige and bonuses for yourselves, as well as venturing down a separate player versus player progression system.
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26 Aug 2007

Age of Conan : A Buff From Sex

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Fresh off the presses at the Games Convention in Leipzig, MMORPG.com has learned from a reliable source at Funcom that characters will be able to have sex and will receive a buff for the action. That is not to say, however, that there will be explicit sex in the game.
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21 Aug 2007

New shots from Age of Conan

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Aug 20, 2007 So, at this week's Games Convention in Leipzig Funcom is holding a behind-closed-doors demonstration of Age of Conan's siege warfare system. "In the game," the developer tells us, "guilds will be able to construct entire battlekeeps for themselves and they can even capture and destroy other guild's battlekeeps by going into battle against them. Players will enter into epic struggles for fame, fortune and land using swords, cavalry and catapults as they charge towards each other ... » Read More

20 Aug 2007

GC 2007: Barbarians to Invade Europe

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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will be publicly playable for the first time GC, developer Funcom announced today. The massively-multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Conan the Barbarian universe features a siege warfare system that will be shown to media for the first time at GCDC this week. Fans attending the conference will also be able to hack at each other one-on-one on the show floor, Funcom said.
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14 Aug 2007

Storage on Xbox 360: MMOs Allowed To Require Hard Drive

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In an unsurprising move (and already a precedent set by Final Fantasy XI, but ignored since), Microsoft confirmed at its Gamefest 2007 that studios working on server-based titles for Xbox 360 are allowed to require the hard drive for their games to run. Games allowed to participate in server-based's "bent rules" is decided on a case-by-case basis.

Microsoft will be asking developers to come up with a set amount of hard drive space to set aside for each game. For example, if World of Warcraft came to Xbox 360, Blizzard would have to tell Microsoft "the game's going to need 4GB of space," even if the game won't necessary install 4GB of content at the start.
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10 Aug 2007

Age of Conan pushed back to March 08

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Funcom has delayed the release of brutal MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures from October to March 25, 2008. Feedback from the beta seems to be the main culprit for the delay. But that's what a beta's for. Both firms say setting a new date means Funcom can continue to focus on "honing, polishing and improving the heralded qualities" of the ... » Read More

10 Aug 2007

Eidos set new release date for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

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Funcom and Eidos have announced a new release date for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The upcoming MMO is now set to be released on the 25th of March 2008.
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23 Jun 2007

Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures update: A dungeon unveiled

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Anyone following the Age of Conan development can probably agree to the fact that it boasts some beautiful landscapes. Snow-covered mountains, far-stretching woodlands and burning deserts are all well and good Â¿ but what about those nasty, dark dungeons? It's time we lifted the veil just a little bit and introduced you to that part of Age of Conan as well. There are, after all, some really incredible dungeons in virtual Hyboria.
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3 Apr 2007

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Good news for those of you anticipating the launch of Funcom's MMORPG Age of Conan on PC - beta sign-ups kick off today! There's no confirmed date for the start of the beta yet, but with the developer saying it'll give us the opportunity to play the game months before release, it can't be too far off. On PC, Age of Conan is due to release on October 30. An Xbox 360 version is also in development. Go to beta.ageofconan.com to sign up. As per usual with these things, submitting an application ... » Read More

7 Mar 2007

GDC: Age of Conan shows off DX10 prowess

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If you want to know what literal difference the new DirectX 10 graphics drivers will bring to new PC games, check out our new Age of Conan screens by clicking the Images tab. The most notable difference is in the backdrops - where DX9 cuts down background detail to a minimum, DX10 will fill your screen with detail be it near or ... » Read More

26 Feb 2007

New Age of Conan footage

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Eidos is keen to show off the visuals of its DirectX 10-based action-RPG, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, on the way to PC and Xbox 360. This footage gives you a scenic fly-through of a town called Khemi - a dusty town near a stretch of water, in what the trailer proudly boasts to be "in-game" graphics. Although to be honest, apart from some nice water effects and a decent volume of buildings, we found it rather ... » Read More

12 Feb 2007

Conan dev aiming for cross-platform MMOG-ing

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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures developer Funcom is aiming to support cross-platform adventuring between PC and Xbox 360 with its MMORPG.

Revealing that the developer is "toying around with many different solutions" to cross-platform action, Conan product manger Erling Ellingsen went on to explain possible options in an interview to be published shortly.

"...one is having some shared servers and some servers that are not shared - simply to give players the freedom of choice. What solution we actually do end up with is something we will have to reveal later".
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13 Dec 2006

Conan MMO sieges Xbox 360

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Funcom announced today that the massively multiplayer world of Conan - based on the barbarian created by Robert E. Howard - will be coming to the Xbox 360. When Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures arrives next year, you'll be able to haul any woman into the jungle to live the drunken, womanizing, homicidal life of Conan. Although we don't have a confirmed release date, Funcom has confirmed that it wont be until after the PC version (currently between March and May of 2007). Countless ... » Read More

27 Jul 2006

"Age of Conan" Delayed till 2007

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Along with the rather dull industry news that Eidos picked up publishing rights for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures comes more depressing word that Funcom is also pushing out the MMORPG until 2007.

Despite the fact that Funcom took the path of least resistance when taking Robert E. Howard's vivid but politically incorrect fantasy world and translating it to an MMORPG, I've been looking forward to this one. So bummer. But to take some of the depression off, it looks as if console versions of Age of Conan are planned... the 360 being the most strongly rumored contender.
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