Age of Conan

Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer Expansion Review

Posted on May 22, 2010

The folks over at MMORPG.com have released a detailed review of Funcom’s Age of Conan latest expansion, Rise of the Godslayer – one of the coolest expansion titles ever birthed. Most people saw Conan largely as a dissappointment and the game quickly lost subscribers because of its lack of appropriate content to compete with some [...]

Age of Conan: A Post Mortem Analysis

Posted on Aug 28, 2008

Hi, I’m Daedren. You might remember me from other articles such as “The effectiveness of raiding in only a tubesock” and “Erling Ellingson: Age of Conan Dev by day, Transvestite Cyborg by night?”. It’s me, alright, and I’m here, playing the role of the unbearer of bad news. I’m not bearing it, because it’s not even news. [...]

Age of Conan Review: Lev 1-20 Demonologist

Posted on Jun 04, 2008

As many of you know I was in the AoC beta where I only managed to get to lev 15 or so with my barbarian, but since last Thursday, when I finally managed to get a copy of the game, I’ve been battling it out in Hyborian and currently have a lev 20 Demonologist. So [...]

Age of Conan Monthly Developer Update talks future updates

Posted on Dec 01, 2011

A new developer update for the month of November is now up for the barbarian-em up Age of Conan. The developers lay out the road map for the next series of updates to the game, covering planned additions as far out as Q2 2012. First up is the 3.1 update, which is currently being rolled out [...]

Free-to-Play: Business is Booming

Posted on Nov 11, 2011

Just over a week ago did DC Universe Online went free to play with Sony Online Entertainment bragging about how its player population increased by 1000% in the first few days. Today we learned that over one million new players have registered since the switch, which means the game only had 100,000 players before. So it’s very [...]

Age of Conan Crafting System Revamp Coming in 2012

Posted on Aug 31, 2011

Today Funcom released its monthly developers updated for August which mentions various subjects such as the recent release of The Savage Coast of Turan adventure pack and other upcoming projects still planned for 2011. All future projects planned for 2011 have already been announced such as the PVP world bosses, the massive House of Crom [...]

Age of Conan: Savage Coast of Turan Pack Release Date Announced

Posted on Aug 26, 2011

Today Funcom has revealed the launch date for the Savage Coast of Turan pack as September 8th, although early access will begin starting August 31st for those that purchased the Early Access Bonus pack. The Age of Conan Turan pack costs 1300 Funcom points and the early access pack is 2000 points for premium players, which is [...]

Over 300k Players Join Age of Conan Since Going F2P

Posted on Aug 11, 2011

If you needed any more proof that the free-to-play model was superior to the subscription model, enter Age of Conan: Unchained.  Today Funcom announced that since going Free2Play, AoC has quadrupled server activity, revenue has more than double compared to that of the initial launch, which if you remember launched with over a million copies sold, [...]

Age of Conan Now Free2Play

Posted on Jul 01, 2011

It’s official, Age of Conan is now a free2play MMORPG, rebranded as Age of Conan: Unchained.  The AoC website has been completely redone for the re-launch and Funcom has made a list of all the major new content that has been added since the launch in 2008. To tally up the content that was added since launch [...]

Age of Conan: Unrated – Free to Play

Posted on May 25, 2011

Changes are coming to the land of Hyboria.  Today Funcom announced that Age of Conan will be re-launched this summer as a free to play MMORPG titled Age of Conan: Unrated.  Age of Conan will become free to play, however will retain a premium subscription option that will give players access to extra content. Aside from the premium [...]

Age Of Conan Content Ties in with Upcoming Conan the Barbarian Movie

Posted on May 24, 2011

Funcom today announced that the upcoming Conan the Barbarian movie will tie in directly with new content coming to Age of Conan.  The new content pack titled The Savage Coast of Turan finds players being sent by Conan, now King of Aquilonia, to aid his old ally Artus. Conan the Barbarian Producer and Paradox CEO Fredrik Malmberg [...]

The Secret World Posts First Newsletter Issue

Posted on Mar 20, 2011

With each passing week, The Secret World is getting a little less secret. This weekend marks the beginning of a consistent offering from Funcom, paving the way for more significant reveals in the months to come. The Secret World’s newsletter covers this week’s new round of screenshots as well as an exciting gameplay trailer. The [...]

Hyrkanian Insight: Grind or Fun

Posted on Feb 20, 2011

Hello again.  Since I started writing this column I look at things somewhat differently, considering sides and options I wouldn’t otherwise give a second thought to. I try to present things from all perspectives even if I can’t be exactly impartial; we all have our own opinion and preference about things, don’t we? Age of [...]