Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Hardware Performance Guide

Our self-proclaimed awesome system, a 3GHz Core 2 Quad with a GeForce 9800 GTX and 2GB of DDR2 RAM, ran the game without a hitch. We turned the settings up to high to experience Hyboria in all of its splendor.

Age of Conan ships 1 million

"Sales data shows that Age of Conan is the biggest MMO launch since World of Warcraft," Funcom vice president of sales and marketing Morten Larssen declared. "The numbers are very promising, and we are very proud to be one of the fastest selling PC games ever during launch month and the biggest simultaneous Europe/US MMO launch in history."

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Review

The combat impressively remains gripping enough to push you forward, even when you're pursuing tasks that could qualify as grinding. Much of this has to do with the various roles a single class can play within an adventuring group--even classes that are seemingly dedicated to healing and support. A Herald of Xotli may be an offensive powerhouse, but the healing blood pit he occasionally drops can be a major boon to a party close to defeat.

Age of Conan: all about the Lich Class

In Potterspeak, they seemingly resemble the Death Eaters, except they become more powerful because of the dark spells they can cast. The things mentioned above are actually just some of the things you should know about the Lich class, but if you wanna find out more, just click on the link below and you're good to go.

Age of Conan Rise to Number 1 on the Charts

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Age of Conan: Final Adventure Entry

As of this writing, I have put in close to 70 hours of playtime in Age of Conan and seen a good deal of content, both low-and high-level.

Age of Conan slays 400,000

Of course, no challenge is too great for Conan the Barbarian. Funcom said today that more than 400,000 players have stepped into the online realm of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Not long after the game launched for the PC last week, Funcom stated that the collector's edition for its M-for-Mature-rated MMOG had indefinitely sold out.

Age of Conan: Post-Launch Impressions

So far, we're impressed by what we've played of Age of Conan, but there's a lot more to see and do before we're ready to issue a final verdict. Until that time, we'll be updating Under Review, GameSpot's reviews blog, with quest logs and media to tide you over.

Get ready for a Hyborian Adventure!

So be sure to tune in on Friday, May 23 at 6 p.m. PT to watch Kevin VanOrd hack, slash, and decapitate his way through the Hyborian kingdoms.

Video of Age of Conan running on DirectX 10

Age of Conan is presently in closed beta and is slated for release on both PC and Xbox 360. While the PC version will be running on DirectX 10, the Xbox 369 version will be utilizing DirectX 9.