Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

By Michael Zenke If you picked up Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at launch, your one month of free playtime is coming to an end very soon. As with Age of Conan, that makes us wonder: are you going to subscribe for further months? Technically the launch went fairly smoothly, but there were still queues and...

By Brendan Drain Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Game mechanics, Guides, PvP, Tips and tricks, EVE Evolved The harsh death penalty in EVE Online is something that's talked about a lot. I even touched on the issue myself when I compared EVE Online's style of PvP to Age of Conan and when I investigat...

By Kyle Horner In an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Funcom's Jørgen Tharaldsen speaks surprisingly frank about the many criticisms Age of Conan has been dealt. Topics cover everything from the current state of the game to what Funcom is doing to ...

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By Samuel Axon Will the mergers encourage you to jump ship, or do you take them as a sign that Funcom is aware of the situation and ready to take decisive action to improve the game? Morrison claimed that the decision was made in response to player ...

By Samuel Axon Filed under: Galleries, Age of Conan, EVE Online, Culture, Sword of the New World

By Kyle Horner The coolest thing about all of this is that GamerDNA plans to continue its data mining over the coming months in order to build up a big pile of information. WAR has undoubtedly made a big splash in the ocean of MMOs and we can't wait to see if any big waves -- either good or bad -- come of it. Did you e...

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By Adrian Bott But the most interesting new feature is the addition of Shady Camps as a complement to the new Age of Conan PvP notoriety system, as promised by Craig Morrison recently. There are several other new tweaks to the system that had us eager ...

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By Samuel Axon Funcom plans to release Age of Conan for the 360. DC Universe Online, The Agency, and Free Realms will all be available on the PS3. In fact, noted MMO developer SOE was not long ago moved into what is basically Sony's PlayStation division with the explicit intent to focus on console MMOs. Blizz...

By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Business models, Culture, Events, real-world, InterviewsDuring our time at PAX08 this year, we got together with Jon Radoff, Founder and CEO of GamerDNA, a company that focuses on the community aspect of today's online games. Radoff was kind enough to give us an overview of...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: Culture, Massively Event Coverage, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 14 is a another special episode! Two in a row! This week we're in Los Angeles for E3, and the minds behind the site's direction sat down for some jawwing about what we've seen. Alongside Leads K...

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By William Dobson Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Bugs, Patches, Server downtimeAge of Conan players will be feeling a bit of deja vu today. As was the case last week, today's scheduled patch is not in a suitable state to go live. A fix relating to "Bind on Equip" items in fact made certain items totally un-e...

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By William Dobson Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Bugs, Patches, Server downtimeThe weekly update for Age of Conan won't be taking place today as would be the norm. During the testing of the latest patch, Funcom's QA department discovered an issue that needs to be fixed up so that it isn't unleashed on th...

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By Adrian Bott Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, PvPNaughty, naughty FunCom Devs. To get Age of Conan players salivating, and possibly to distract attention from some recent hiccups, they've posted a sneak preview of some very pretty new items. The character looks like a Ranger, but a Ranger dressed l...

By William Dobson If you already own a horse mount in Age of Conan, you are probably extremely unimpressed with your new companion's speed -- it almost seems like you don't move any faster at all. According to this post at AoC's official forums, this is in fact the case. One of the game's designers has confirmed...

By Akela Talamasca Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Age of Conan, Culture, Guides, Crafting, News itemsLivePvP is a website devoted to player-created, in-game video. They offer a place for players to upload their work for the world to see, whether it's from Aion, EVE Online, Everquest 2, or others. However, th...

By Mike Schramm Unfortunately, if you really are waiting for Warhammer Online, you're going to be waiting a while (though the good news is that you've got a metric ton of posts to read about it here on Massively). But it does seem that the MMO game has cooled down for a bit. Some folks are still pushing onward in...

By Adrian Bott To the delight of the Age of Conan development and community support team, a German metal band by the name of Linkin Purpz has produced a song all about, well, how much they love playing Age of Conan. Entitled Gods of War, it appears to be a melodic rant about the three principal deities of AoC,...

By Mike Schramm Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Culture, MMO industry, Massively metaDon't tell us -- we already know what you're playing this week. It starts with Age and ends with Conan, and it launched on Tuesday. Everybody and their barbarian are probably heading back into the Hyborian Age to cut o...

By Mark Turpin Every Tuesday think "T" for Turpster and take the "a" in "day", capitalise it, remove the little bit in the middle, turn it upside down and you get a "V". Put the two together and you'll have TV for TurpsterVision -- the best Internet video podcast on Massively! (Never mind that business abou...

By Krystalle Voecks Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Age of Conan, New titles, One Shots In honor of the release of Age of Conan today, we're sharing one of humorous screenshots we got from a reader who was in the Age of Conan pre-release. (It was the note that made us chuckle moreso than the screenshot, admit...

By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Forums, Game mechanics, Guides, New titles, Education

By Michael Zenke Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, LaunchesEarlier this week Funcom threw a giant bash in Oslo, Norway to celebrate the upcoming launch of their long in-development MMO Age of Conan. Ten Ton Hammer was on-hand to check out the festivities, and came away with a number of goodies showing of...

By Shawn Schuster So there you are, sitting at the AoC character creation screen. You've just installed the game, created your perfect character that you will be playing for the next few months or years, but now you stare blankly at the little box with the blinking cursor asking for your character name. Argh!

By Samuel Axon Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Forums, Launches, New titles, News items Funcom posted a bulletin seeking volunteers to moderate the official Age of Conan forums. The game will be launching in just over a week, so if you're a particularly passionate member of its community, this is pr...

By William Dobson Continuing our examination of the spellcasting classes in Age of Conan, today we're going to investigate the situation with the priest archetype. As with all of the archetypes in AoC, there are three choices when it comes to the priests: Bear Shaman, Tempest of Set, and Priest of Mitra. We'...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: World of Warcraft, Betas, Podcasts, Age of Conan, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Events, real-world, Events, in-game, PvP, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 2 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of...

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By Kyle Horner Filed under: Age of Conan, New titles, The Daily Grind We've asked if you were a collector or not, but now we're curious about one specific title. Namely, are you going to buy the CE for Age of Conan or will you be settling for the regular edition?

By Michael Zenke Massively Speaking" episode one sees co-leads Krystalle Voecks and Michael Zenke, writer Kyle Horner, and accomplished podcasting veteran Shawn Schuster setting down to a banquet of MMO news. Check out our commentary on the Lich King alpha announcement, LOTRO Book 13, and City of Hero...

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By Dan O'Halloran Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Horror, Galleries, Podcasts, Screenshots, Age of Conan, Business models, Events, real-world, Interviews, New titles, Previews, PvP, News items, Hands-on, Massively highlights, All Points Bulletin, Crime, Requiem: Bloodymare

By Michael Zenke had the chance to sit with the Age of Conan developers yesterday, to take in a brand-new preview of the blood-and-guts gameplay due out later this year. One of the highlights of that demo was the chance to see mounted combat in action. We traveled to the desolate landscape of Khopshef provinc...

By Akela Talamasca There's an editorial over at WarCry that's part opinion piece, part year-in-review, making the case that 2007 saw the demise of the subscription model -- paying a monthly fee for your favorite MMO. There is some sound reasoning in the piece, and it's a good read. However, I don't believe tha...

By Akela Talamasca Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Darkfall, Game mechanics, New titles, PvP, Races Darkfall is an up-and-coming MMO that we haven't given much time to on Massively, but reading over this recently-released 'Dev Journal' on the WarCry Network, it sounds like there's a lot there to susta...