Funcom is working on three games based on the Conan mythology, the first of which will be revealed in January.
]]>Funcom, the team behind Age of Conan, The Secret World and the recently released Lego Minifigures Online is up for sale.
]]>The Secret World and Age of Conan developer Funcom has said it is back at work following yesterday's raid by Norwegian financial authority Økokrim, and is co-operating fully with the organisation's investigation.
]]>Age of Conan and The Secret World developer Funcom has seen a significant jump in income since releasing The Secret World, and managed to minimise its losses last quarter thanks to recent, dramatic restructuring.
]]>Age of Conan: Unchained has landed on Steam, and to get the free-to-play ball rolling for you, the Tortage Survival Pack is 35% off. It contains a blue snow mammoth mount, starter weapons, items which will teleport you to your origin city, a 20-slot inventory bag, a ring which boosts your DPS, fireworks to play with, and potions giving you 10 XP. The pack usually costs $9.99, but for the moment you'll only have to fork over $6.49. Hit up Steam for more information. Thanks, Massively.
]]>Funcom has announced it's closing its Beijing studio, while at the same time forming a "joint, centralized live team" at its Raleigh, North Carolina studio. The firm also announced its Montreal Studio's focus will switch to mobile and tablet projects.
]]>Funcom's Craig Morrison believes MMO players have come to expect the titles to either launch free-to-play, or switch over to the options relatively soon post launch. The later, is a problematic expectation, according to the firm's Age of Conan creative director.
]]>Funcom has announced Secrets of Dragon’s Spine, a new series of content updates for its free to play MMORPG, Age of Conan: Unchained.
]]>Funcom will begin a gradual transition of Age of Conan to Dreamworld single server technology this month.
]]>Funcom has decided to improve Age of Conan's crafting system by throwing it all in the bin and starting afresh.
]]>Funcom has launched House of Crom, the free update to Age of Conan: Unchained available to both Premium free-to-play subscribers. In addition to being able to roam the halls of the Atlantean House of Crom and its "two huge in-game dungeons," one social and one instanced, ans are the "largest indoor dungeons yet created for the game." You can check out screenshots for the update below.
]]>Funcom has announced that since going free-to-play in July, Age of Conan: Unchained has been tried out by 600,000 players. In celebration, everyone who logs in before Monday, November 21, will be able to claim The King's Reward pack from the item store on one character on their account. The reward pack, which can be found in the special offer tab in the store, contains a selection of potions for the price of free. The pack is limited to one per account.
]]>More shorts for your Wednesday are below, and there are quite a few good ones, so be sure to have a sniff in case you miss something.
]]>You didn't think we'd let you get out of here for the weekend without another shorts post did you? What do you take us for? Some sort of benign entity with your best interest at heart? We scoff at you.
]]>It's Friday. Thank [insert expletive here]! Have some shorts to get you started.
]]>Below the break are more shorts to get you through the rest of evening.
]]>More shorts are posted below to help get your weekend started. As for us? Well, ours doesn't start until tomorrow but that just means we can get smashed on Sunday whereas you can't. We laugh at your fate.
]]>Funcom's confirmed that 300,000 players have joined Age of Conan: Unchained in the MMO's first month of free-to-play activity.
]]>Surprise, surprise! Beleaguered MMORPG Age of Conan has seen an increase in subscriptions since switching to a free-to-play model.
]]>It's hump day, your week is half over. Read these shorts and close your Wednesday out.
]]>Team Fortress 2 and World of Warcraft (sorta) aren't the only ones to go F2P recently.
]]>E3 is over, and most people who went to the show or who worked through it are screaming: Thank God It's Friday. So, to those, a happy TGIF , and for the rest of you, get caught up on the last of the shorts for the day. Saturday is looming, after all.
]]>Most Wednesdays the (virtual) office resounds with cries of "hooray hump day", but this week, we're too busy prepping for E3 to do more than shudder in fear, and give a cursory glance at these tasty nibbles.
]]>Age of Conan has joined the growing ranks of high-profile free-to-play MMORPGS. Is chasing the micro-transaction dollar a sign of impending doom, or the future of the genre?
]]>Funcom has said there are currently "no plans" to bring Age of Conan to consoles, but the firm is still working on console technology as well as its newly announced AoC free-to-play initiative on PC.
]]>Funcom's announced this morning that Age of Conan will go free-to-play this summer.
]]>Funcom has announced new content coming to Age of Conan’ which will tie together the game and the upcoming movie, Conan the Barbarian starring Jason Momoa.
]]>Sometimes, short can be a good thing indeed. Especially when you double up.
]]>Funcom has detailed three new solo instances for Age of Conan.
]]>Funcom has released a video for the Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer.
The video, posted below the break from GameTrailers, pretty much shows you everything that's been revealed for it over the past few months, as well as some new scenes of the game in action.
It's out on PC May 11, and you can get it two ways: digitally, or through a retail disc containing the core game.
]]>Funcom has announced a date of May 11 for the first expansion to Age of Conan.
There is also a pre-order program in place for Rise of the Godslayer, should you wish to undertake the adventure into the lands of Khitai.
]]>Funcom has announced that a retail release containing both Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and the expansion Rise of the Godslayer is to be published by Deep Silver.
]]>Funcom has revealed that Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is still in development for Xbox 360.
]]>Some new screens and a video showing the wolf mount for Age of Conan's Rise of the Godslayer expansion were released by Funcom this week.
Dunno if we would ever want to ride a wolf that harbored a maw like that one - but to each his own.
]]>Funcom has released another video for its Rise of the Godslayer expansion to Age of Conan.
The expansion is expected to "deliver a wealth of new content and features" set in the eastern empire of Khitai.
Still, no release date, but it's coming. Watch the video below the break courtesy of FileFront, showing off the northern grasslands.
]]>Funcom has released some screens and a video for Rise of the Godslayer, the first expansion for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
]]>This was a rather large week in MMOs as far as news went, and not all of it was Halloween related.
Past the break you will hear all about how Ultima Online is still going strong, get familiarized with the new patch for Aion, read up on Cryptic's Blood Moon event via a dev chat, PvP henchmen and Guild Wars, Alganon's delay, China's ban on males playing females in games, and many other bits of stuff that didn't hit the front page during the week.
Also, we hope everyone who plays MMOs enjoyed the Halloween and Fall festivities that their particular favorites hosted. Loads had celebrations, more than likely every single one of 'em. If we forgot to mention your particular game, head on over to the list through the link ther and add it in the comments section so that we may give it its proper shout-out.
]]>Loads of MMOs are planning Halloween and fall festivities for users, but some have already launched tricky goodness.
You can find out more about those past the break, but while you are headed that way you will also learn other sorts of stuff like: Legends of Norrath's eighth expansion has launched, CrimeCraft is headed to iPhone and Facebook, and having gone free-to-play D&D Online is doing great, apparently.
Also, Star War Galaxies is overrun with zombies. That's right. Zombies.
It's all there kids. Enjoy.
]]>Loads of stuff happened this week with MMOs. Bethesda laughed off an Elder Scrolls MMO, APB started the Beta application process, Aion released pretty trailers, Star Wars will be playable at GamesCom and all other sorts of interesting things happened.
What we didn't tell you about was that Lord of the Rings Online got some new jewelry and bounty quests in Esteldin, Funcom will announce Conan stuff at PAX, and there were some rumored leaks on the upcoming WoW expansion posted all over God's green earth.
For all of this and more, read on past the break.
]]>It's Saturday again, and time for your dose of MMO news.
This one has been branded the "trouble" edition, because certain MMOS were either in trouble, or getting out of it this week.
First off, Stargate Worlds is rumored to be in massive trouble, Age of Conan isn't in as much any more, and China has ungrounded World of Warcraft but only a tiny bit. It can still go out on dates, but not whore about the countryside like it had been doing. What a tart.
Other than those bits, the week in MMOs was a bit uneventful. Yeah sure, the major news hit the front page as usual, but there are a few things you may want to know about that didn't. For that, and the rest of it, along with a song devoted to Second Life, read on below.
]]>Loads this week in MMO news, and some is more interesting than what we have been offered in previous weeks.
FussionFall is getting an expansion for its 5 million users, the EQI&II trademark rumors turned out to be new expansions, Star Wars will be on hand at Comic-Con, and Conan got a new update.
Also, Warhammer and LotRO are celebrating the summer with festivities to make things a bit more zany and fun.
Find out all about these and others after the break.
]]>Welcome once again to your weekly MMO news round-up.
Loads going as usual what with PlayXpert releasing a new Widget for online games, Conan players getting to go to level 50, and Shadowbane getting a small reprieve from the death ax.
Wanna know the rest? Of course you do, and it's all after the break.
]]>There are many updates, announcements, and other goings on in MMO-land during the week, and it can be hard to keep up. Luckily, you have us.
Get the last seven days' worth of significant MMO news after the break.
]]>Loads of goings on in the world of MMOs, as usual. Let us make sense of it for you.
This week's had its fair share of content updates, a closed beta, character testing, teaser screens, and an MMO set near the Grand Canyon, in the future, after a plague. Honestly.
Read on after the jump.
]]>Sure, the more important MMO stories gets their own pieces during the week, but what about all games that aren't World of Warcraft? Where does that leave them? Here in our MMO news round-up, obviously.
So much happens on a daily basis in the world of MMOs that we thought we'd put as much as we can in one lovely Saturday post. Saves snowing you with the smaller stuff all week that way.
Full thing after the break.
]]>Speaking in an earnings call following the release of third quarter financials yesterday, Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime said that those leaving World of Warcraft for competing MMOs have a very strong chance of ultimately returning.
]]>A post on the Age of Conan boards relaying the words of game director, Craig Morrison, reveals that quite on extensive combat update is being worked on. This is in addition to changes to trade skills and The Notoriety System.
]]>In an interview with Eurogamer, Funcom’s Gaute Godager called WoW shallow – using a food reference.
]]>According to this massively story, the current issue of PC Gamer offers readers a free Age of Conan item.
]]>According to this, Funcom is allowing those who didn't make it onto the Age of Conan beta another shot at getting involved. Visit this thread for details. Basically, you have to submit a prayer to one of the game's deities and the funniest/most desperate get in.
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