...or "Come back to Age Of Conan", rather. Funcom's latest drive to bring players back to its spearhead MMORPG is a repeat of last year's successful re-evaluation campaign. Dip back into your dormant AOC account any time in November and you'll get two weeks access for free with a double experience modifier for the entire period. Anyone that decides to subscribe beyond the period will also recieve beta access to Funcom's MMO in-the-making, The Secret World. Age ...

Perhaps it was the three spoonfuls of Fairtrade coffee I had in my cup this morning, but for some reason, this Christmas card from Funcom tickled me: I reckon that's worth a plug, especially as server populations have been looking a lot healthier since the recent merger. Check out Age Of Conan here.

Avatar boobs have been shrunk in a recent Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventure patch, according to a thread on the official AOC forum. Not that affects the MMORPG in any real way, but for one AOC forumite, Dusk, it was enough to prompt a degree of outrage and to post a thread containing these shots: Before... And after......

Age Of Conan launches on the 23rd, so Eidos and Funcom thought it would be a great idea to hire a medieval re-enactment group, dress them up as battle-scarred barbarians, give them wenches, then make them fight eachother in a field filled with debauched and drunken journalists. TPCG thought so too, which is why I got sent to Oslo with explicit instructions to take photos and if possible, challenge Conan to manly hand-to-hand combat. I did. He wussed out....

Eidos and Funcom celebrated their latest venture, Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, with a massive launch party in Oslo on 13 May. The event included over 50 actors dressed in barbarian garb, a fantasy battle scene and of course, King Conan himself who oversaw the festivities from his lofty perch and only deigned to move when a fight broke out and his warriors were in grave need of assistance. Music came courtesy of the Age Of Conan soundtrack director Morten Sørlie and Norwegian punk ...