Funcom is proud to announce the launch of Update 5 – ‘Gangs of Tarantia’ on the ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ live servers. Players can now look forward to exploring a whole new area, the Tarantia Commons district, complete with a spectacular new storyline, more enemies to defeat, and more rewards to be had. This …

Funcom is proud to announce that ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ is now available as a free trial. Funcom, Fileplanet and Ausgamers have teamed up to provide gamers everywhere with the opportunity to download and play ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ for free for a period of seven to fourteen days. This is the chance …

I’m not one of the lucky ones who managed to get a pre-order copy of Darkfall but I’ve been watching this one for quite some time.  Out on the blogosphere there is quite a buzz about what’s going on with the initial launch of the game.  If you are like me and misses out on …

2008 was a busy year for gaming, even in these tough economic times game companies managed to throw some big upcoming titles at us as well as release some good games and expansions.  Here are a few of the noteables for 2008.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King –  This has got to come …

I attended a Realtor conference a couple of weeks ago – which is partially why I’ve been fairly silent on the site over the past few days…busy.  But anyway, back to the point:  At the conference there are a …

This week Funcom updated the ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ live servers with the largest gameplay content addition since launch. By visiting the vast, new outdoor area of Ymir’s Pass players will now be able to find new quests to solve, new characters to meet, new monsters to slay and a dramatic new storyline to …

DirectX10 features in Age of Conan exclusively revealed at Games Convention
 
- New locations, content and features to be revealed for both press and consumers at the show – - Thousands of exclusive give-aways, including free trial accounts and limited edition game DVDs -
 

Durham, USA - August 15th, 2008 - Conan is invading this year’s Games Convention in …

It’s been a while since I’ve been over to Mythic’s website but have noticed they have released their minimum system specs for Warhammer Online.  The specs are within reach of most gamers these days, but after the launch black screen disaster that was …

I look back on games I’ve played before in the MMO genre and tend to have fond memories of friends, adventures and being lost in the game world.  But then I also have memories of tedious grinds, stressful situations and general time sinks called raids.  Why do game designers keep putting this mechanic into games?

Well, first …

At least, why I’m not going to buy it right away.  Snafzg over at TheGreenSkin.com made a great point, in my opinion, when he posted that he thought the next beta phase for WAR could be the actual release.  We’ve seen it so many times before – …