Age of Conan breaks pre-order records      
Pre-orders of the MMO's collector's edition have been strong enough to cause the title to completely sell out, despite a second print run to keep up with demand, selling in total around 111,000 units.
 
Age of Conan nets 700,000 subscribers      
Funcom has sent out its latest chest-beating press release for its MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, announcing the creation of an impressive 700,000 player accounts for the month-old game.
 
Age of Conan delay explained      
Funcom game director Gaute Godager has issued an open letter to the Age of Conan forum explaining exactly why the game was put back five months.
 
Play Age of Conan three days early      
Funcom and Eidos have announced anyone pre-ordering Age of Conan in the USA, Germany, France, Spain, UK, Oceania and the land of the Nords will get to play the game early.
 
Eidos explains accessing Conan early      
Speaking to Eurogamer, the publisher said those pre-ordering the game will be able to download a client and pay a small fee to play for three days before launch. After that you will need your full product key that is included in the retail, boxed copy of Age of Conan.
 
Age of Conan PC in October      
The game was previously pencilled in for March, and this new official date gives developer Funcom more time to spruce-up its DirectX 10-powered loincloths.
 
Conan shipments hit 1 million      
"Sales data shows that Age of Conan is the biggest MMO launch since World of Warcraft," said Funcom marketeer Morton Larssen. "The numbers are very promising, and we are very proud to be one of the fastest selling PC games ever in a launch month and the biggest simultaneous Europe/US MMO launch in history."
 
Conan to offer 250 hours of levelling      
Speaking at last week's launch event game director Gaute Godager said, "We have budgeted - because that's what you do, you budget people's time when you make these types of games - a levelling curve which is on average 250 hours of gameplay."
 
Eye on '07: MMOGs      
Developed by the team who created the fascinating but terribly flawed Anarchy Online, Age of Conan is a game set in the universe of Arnold Schwarzenegger's classic Conan The Barbarian - so as you might expect, it features rather a lot of burly men, broadswords, axes and bloodshed.
 
Breast outcry "very surprising" to Funcom      
Funcom has told Eurogamer that it was very surprised by the strength of the reaction to the accidental shrinking of breasts on female models in Age of Conan.
 
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