AoC News
Age of Conan Week: The Classes      
There are few more critical moments when starting a new massively multiplayer RPG than selecting your first character class. Of course, it's always possible to go back and start again - and in the long run, if you stick with the game, you're bound to try several classes.
 
Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures      
We've covered this terrain before, but in case you weren't paying attention: Age Of Conan is the MMO based on the original Robert E Howard fantasy novels, rather than the Arnie remix of later years.
 
Age of Conan nets 400,000 players      
Age of Conan has been on general release in the US for a week, and in Europe since last Friday. Assuming the figure excludes beta testers, it indicates very healthy early sales for the game - and means it's one of the fastest-selling PC games ever
 
Alliance wars heading to Age of Conan      
Top of its list is the consequence-focused overhaul to player-versus-player battles. This "to the death" update will come later this month, and adds the "fugitive" system where the more you kill lower-level players, the easier it becomes to murder you in return.
 
One million sign for Age of Conan beta      
The beta only caters for 50,000 of you, apparently, but the rest of you will get a chance to play the full version in just over a week.
 
Age of Conan Week on EG MMO      
After five years in development and nearly as much time spent talking about it, hotly-anticipated fantasy MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is released this week. The US gets it on Tuesday, Europe gets it on Friday, and servers went live to players with "early access" codes at the weekend.
 
I can see my house from here!      
There's just something really cool about being able to climb to the top of a hill and look around. Exploring in MMOGs is a great deal of fun, and really should be embraced in more games, we think! Today's One Shots comes from one intrepid Age of Conan explorer, Julien. He writes: [This is me] looking down at Conall's Valley.
 
BioWare founders appreciate Conan, tease their MMO      
BioWare's founders, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, have been cagey about the in-development BioWare MMO for months now. Unwilling to do more than talk around the edges of the project, what they have said about it at events like GDC is highly intriguing.
 
AoC's 2nd of July patch completes planned Necro changes      
The first patch for Age of Conan under the new scheduling has hit the live servers. Along with a healthy portion of quest and NPC bug fixes, the second half of the discussed Necromancer changes have made it in, granting them more splash damage for a couple of their pets, some feat related changes, and the ironing out of a few bugs relating to their spells.
 
One Shots: Crom's Rock      
Despite many people saying that Age of Conan is still very rough in places, one of the things that many people have been thrilled with has been the graphics. Today's lovely One Shots image from our reader Watumez shows off one really lovingly detailed area in Age of Conan.
 
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