We also upgraded our barbarian's skills, quickly filling up the hotkey slots with special lunges, overhead attacks and impressively grisly special kills that actually splatter blood on the screen. One particularly memorable melee match ended with us thrusting the oar into a character's chest, pushing them down to the ground and twisting the wooden weapon right through them before grunting and reefing it out.

News for the Baninated Recently there have been several player bans in Funcom's new MMOG, Age of Conan． The player community has been asking for details as to what has happened and what players can do if they feel they have been wrongly banned．

Age of Conan has sold out the normal edition in numerous outlets and is the number 1 game on the official charts in Germany, UK, Australia, Sweden, Norway and Spain． Durham, USA – June 2, 2008 – Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan rises to number 1 on the PC charts, and the game even competes very well on the all-format lists． The normal edition is now sold out in many outlets due to the initial success of the game, and Funcom aims to resupply new boxes as fast as possible． With more than half a million customers, Age of Conan is already one of the biggest ever western MMO games, and this happens just a week after launch． To read more, please visit Funcom．

Age of Conan hyborian Adventures introduced a lot of new people to the MMORPG genre． For many AoC will represent their first adventure into a massive virtual world． Those new to this form of game may not understand its traditions and ethics．

On saturday 28th of June 2008 On the EU PvP Server Soulstorm we managed to succcesfully put together a 24 man raidgroup consisting of totally random people. Our goal was to defeat Vistrix the dragon. We set out from Kheshatta in high spirits and headed towards Atzel's Approach and the Dragon's lair.

Summing Up Another Week in Hyboria Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures has officially launched and the masses are flocking through Hyboria as we speak. With AoC officially live Ten Ton Hammer has been rolling out loads of content and the Border Kingdom Cryer is here to summarize this week's content and the top pieces of discussion across the forums.

Ok so. My collectors edition of AoC arrived today. Figured I’ll do a detailed report on its contents for all of you who didn’t pay the extra cash to get it and show what you’re missing out on. Just be glad I didn’t make a video of it cause I probably sounded exactly like this guy (Was so hard to find this video on Youtube since it has been ages since I last saw it and apparently tons of people document their macbook unboxing (Wonder why?). I searched through at least two pages of macbook unboxing videos and couldn’t find it. I remembered that the guy sounded orgasmic so I gave the keywords “Macbook unboxing orgasmic” a shot and there we go! The first result in the search.

Reservations Although the art direction has produced a rich, nuanced world environment, users who demand leading-edge visuals will have to wait at least a few more months for DirectX 10 support. Despite enormous amounts of source material to draw on, the lore element isn't always obvious; for instance, a number of the quests could take place in nearly any fantasy setting. PvP is available, but in need of various improvements; for example, it appears siege warfare hasn't been fully implemented. We've seen reports that technical issues prevent some people from playing. Reflections Age of Conan provides a highly visceral play experience, especially via its atypical melee combat system. With sales booming, we look forward to seeing Funcom make improvements that will allow the game to fulfill even more of its considerable potential.

June 27, 2008 - Released in May, Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures takes players to an ancient, dark period where great kingdoms clash in feudal conflicts. As members of 12 diverse classes, they can live, fight and explore in a world based on over 75 years of books, movies, art and other materials.

Associate Producer on Age of Conan, Henning Solberg, is more than happy to shed light on this darkest of dungeons: "On the mountain side overlooking Kheshatta stands The Black Ring Citadel," Solberg explains. "Inside its closed gates the Stygian mages conduct research, breath life into rock and create plots to increase their influence and power in the world of Hyboria. Unwelcome visitors will encounter nameless evil and boundless terror if they dare to journey into this heart of darkness."