While Age of Conan has a pretty interesting handle on the newbie zone portion of the game, Tharaldsen and his team know that people expect one thing from a title carrying the Conan name: action. Despite Age of Conan being an MMO, it has a pretty damn action-y combat system. Tharaldsen specifically cites games like Tekken and Street Fighter II (I'll get to this in a bit) when talking about the combat. |
There's going to be another update tomorrow, same bat time, same bat station. 04:00 GMT for the EU servers and 7AM EDT for the US servers. |
BioWare talks MMOs at MTV Multiplayer, where they reveal that they've been checking out the competition, Age of Conan. With their own MMO on the way, AoC has given them encouragement in knowing that MMOs other than WoW can still do well.
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Before his untimely suicide in 1935, author Robert E. Howard said the "Hyborian Era" that his stories featuring Conan the Barbarian was set in took place about 12,000 years ago. Ironically, the period following the 2005 announcement of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has also felt like an eon, thanks to several delays. |
Eidos and Funcom are proud to announce that Age of Conan continues to dominate the PC sales charts in all markets where the game is available. Over the last few weeks it has remained the overall #1 PC game in most European markets, whilst also performing tremendously well on several all-format charts. |
A machine that featured the minimum system requirements--3GHz Pentium 4 processor, GeForce 6600 128MB video card, and 1GB of system memory--seemed reasonable, but we decided to build a test machine to see how the game performed on a system with the minimum required specifications. We didn't have many of the older parts, but we got close. |
Today Funcom sent out a press release with the title "Age of Conan Reaches One Million Milestone." At first glance, many took the headline as meaning the Norwegian developer's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures had already enrolled 1 million subscribers. That would be a mean feat, given that it had only 400,000 subscribers last week. |
The world of Conan the Cimmerian, the fantasy barbarian of legend created by Robert E. Howard, portrayed in films by Arnold Schwarzenegger and re-created in several games, is returning to consoles. Funcom today announced that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has been approved for the Xbox 360 by Microsoft. |
Hyborian Adventures Hands-On: Combat, Early Quests, and High-Level Sorcery |
Crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women is clearly best in life. So when the opportunity presents itself, it better go off without a hitch. |
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