Age of Conan has been getting a lot of hype recently. The collector’s edition is completely sold out. That’s 111,000 copies, plus the regular edition is being preorderd like mad. Unfortunately there is some bad news for the Hyborian Age. The DirectX 10 version of the game won’t be arriving this week with the others. Instead it will be hitting shelves sometime in late summer.
Why the delay? According to the guys at Funcom, they are “building a DirectX 10 version worthy of Microsoft’s great vision for the future of PC gaming.” Let’s hope that this does not affect sales too badly.
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Today Funcom announced that the launch date for their fantasy MMORPG “Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures” is being pushed 8 more weeks.
The highly anticipated MMO receives 8 more weeks of development, allowing Funcom to deliver a more polished MMO experience when the game launches on the 20th of May 2008. Despite great feedback on vital aspects like immersion, fun factor and the exciting combat system, the management of Funcom has decided to polish the game even more. Eight weeks of development work is therefore added to stress game systems and polish the game further leading up to launch.
The game was previously delayed from October 2007 to this March.
EA Mythic sent us new screenshots and concept art from next year’s Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR). In this edition: Witch Elf, Swordmaster and Shadow Warrior. Continued…
I always play a female character in RPGs and MMOs. If I’m going to spend hundreds of hours staring at a character’s ass, I want it to be a hot female ass.
Have you seen the badunk badunks on those Draenei chicks? Niiiiice.
But Chinese MMORPG King of the World has instituted a policy banning male players from playing female characters. Gender character restrictions aren’t new — popular Korean isometric MMO Ragnarok Online insists that players play their own gender, although it’s an easy rule to get around. But King of the World’s publisher, Aurora Technology, has apparently frozen the accounts of all male players with female characters.
Now, any player who wishes to roll a female character will have to submit to a webcam interview. Supposedly to show off her boobies. Continued…
Oslo-based developer and publisher Funcom is pushing back the release date of fantasy MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures to March 2008.
The game had been slated for an October 30 release. Open beta registration began April 3.
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THQ released new screenshots for the upcoming PC & 360 MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Clearly, there’s going to be some adult content.
Visitors to the official web site must give their age before entering. Developer Funcom has stated they expect the game, which launches October 30th, to receive an “M” rating from the ESRB.
The game is based on Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian stories from the 1930s. From the screenshots, it seems clear the game will keep the violence and sex from the original writing.
The art design seems directly influenced by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta’s well known Conan illustrations. Continued…
