AoC News

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  • Conan's pillage delayed

    "We believe that by spending even more time and effort into polishing and enhancing the game we will ensure that the game reaches its full potential in terms of quality and subscriber base," said Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. "


  • Age of Conan Directx 10 Version World Premiering at CES

    The groundbreaking new DirectX 10 technology brings a wide range of improvements for PC games, and it has several highly positive implications on the performance and looks of 'Age of Conan'. Amongst other things it gives Funcom a chance to increase the overall performance, as well as enabling better view distance, more realistic-looking characters, more special effects, better and more detailed environments as well as better light models.


  • Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Updated Impressions

    While the visuals did display a little slowdown in some intensive scenes, the demo averaged more than 35 frames per second, and Tharaldsen said that there was still plenty that Funcom could do to optimize and improve the frame rate.


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  • Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures

    The game looks fantastic and after reviewing some of the developer comments we are hopefull that this game will be a good one. If you are unaware of Conan and his quests, there are over 70 years worth of stories and comics which have allowed the devs to create "a realm tgat is a very deep and meaningful place to set an online Action-RPG in.


  • Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: servers, languages, open beta

    Unlike servers, players will be given a chance to change the language used by the game. However, the default language on the install disc will be according to what server that copy of the game is attuned to. They are still currently deciding if they should include all the languages on the installer or to offer it as a download for players who want to change the language.


  • Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures - Details and clarifications on massive PvP system

    The Guild PvP points are used to determine if groups or players have the right to siege battlekeeps. Players who participate in it will generate points for their respective guilds through the minigames and experience gained from PvP battles. These


  • Cinemassively: The Covenant guild in Age of Conan

    The Covenant, a 350-members-and-growing guild on the European Age of Conan server, Dagon, released this video to recruit members. Viewers be warned, this short clip contains some heavy violence, but that's to be expected in AoC.


  • One Shots: A Zelata adventure

    For all that the game may still have a way to go, many people are very fond of the looks of Funcom's Age of Conan. This landscape including volcanoes and cliffs comes to us from Oz, who said it was taken some time ago. Oz writes: Here is a shot from a while ago when I explored the wild lands of Zelata on my Ranger.


  • Funcom suffering a loss of investor confidence

    Funcom, makers of Age of Conan, are dealing with some serious financial flux. Since the launch of AoC, their stock has tumbled from $54 to $24 a share on the Oslo Stock Exchange (last price as of the end of the trading day on Friday).


  • Making/Money: Hurry Up and Wait

    It took a few weeks, but I finally made it to level 20 in Age of Conan. It was an intense time getting through quest after quest, killing random mobs, and starting to mark my map with waypoints in anticipation.


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