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Funcom has released a video for the Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer.

The video, posted below the break from GameTrailers, pretty much shows you everything that’s been revealed for it over the past few months, as well as some new scenes of the game in action.

It’s out on PC May 11, and you can get it two ways: digitally, or through a retail disc containing the core game.

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Funcom has announced a date of May 11 for the first expansion to Age of Conan.

There is also a pre-order program in place for Rise of the Godslayer, should you wish to undertake the adventure into the lands of Khitai.

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Funcom has announced that a retail release containing both Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and the expansion Rise of the Godslayer is to be published by Deep Silver.

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Funcom has revealed that Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is still in development for Xbox 360.

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Some new screens and a video showing the wolf mount for Age of Conan’s Rise of the Godslayer expansion were released by Funcom this week.

Dunno if we would ever want to ride a wolf that harbored a maw like that one – but to each his own.

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Funcom has released another video for its Rise of the Godslayer expansion to Age of Conan.

The expansion is expected to “deliver a wealth of new content and features” set in the eastern empire of Khitai.

Still, no release date, but it’s coming. Watch the video below the break courtesy of FileFront, showing off the northern grasslands.

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Funcom has released some screens and a video for Rise of the Godslayer, the first expansion for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.

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According to Funcom, the public has higher expectations for The Secret World than it did for Age of Conan.

This was revealed through the firm’s Q3 financial report, which can viewed here in lovely PDF format.

Included in the report was the announcement that the game is progressing as planned, with the combat, core mechanics and content being worked on at the moment.

Funcom announced plans this month that Age of Conan players who purchase a multi-month subscription and the new expansion, would get Beta access to The Secret World when it goes live.

Thanks, IncGamers.

Funcom’s posted a $9.6 million loss for the quarter ending September 30, compared to a profit of $3.3 million in the third quarter of 2008.

Revenues were down from $18 million to $5.7 million.

Q4 revenues is expected to be in the $4-5 million region.

More on Edge.

Funcom has announced plans to get lure players back to Age of Conan with not only multi-month subscription rates and the new expansion, but Beta access to The Secret World when it goes live.

Here’s the deal:

• 3-month sub: Beta access to The Secret World
• 6-month sub: Beta access + in-game helmet that boosts experience gain by 10 percent
• 12-month sub: Beta access + helmet + a free copy of Conan expansion Rise of the Godslayer

“We know that coming back to a massively multiplayer online game demands effort, so for us it’s all about making it worthwhile for former players to come back,” Erling Ellingsen told Eurogamer. “With all the improvements having been introduced to the game, we’re eager to have as many former players as possible be exposed to all the updates.

“So for returning players we’re offering two weeks free game time, and the ability to level up twice as fast as normal. It is natural for any subscription business to incentivize longer-term subscriptions in order to ensure a long-term relationship with the player.”

The new expansion, Rise of the Godslayer, will include a new Asian-themed area of Khitai along with its playable race, the Khitan and the chance to raise tigers and wolves from cubs into mounts when it goes live in 2010.

Via Massively.

This was a rather large week in MMOs as far as news went, and not all of it was Halloween related.

Past the break you will hear all about how Ultima Online is still going strong, get familiarized with the new patch for Aion, read up on Cryptic’s Blood Moon event via a dev chat, PvP henchmen and Guild Wars, Alganon’s delay, China’s ban on males playing females in games, and many other bits of stuff that didn’t hit the front page during the week.

Also, we hope everyone who plays MMOs enjoyed the Halloween and Fall festivities that their particular favorites hosted. Loads had celebrations, more than likely every single one of ‘em. If we forgot to mention your particular game, head on over to the list through the link ther and add it in the comments section so that we may give it its proper shout-out.

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Loads of MMOs are planning Halloween and fall festivities for users, but some have already launched tricky goodness.

You can find out more about those past the break, but while you are headed that way you will also learn other sorts of stuff  like: Legends of Norrath’s eighth expansion has launched, CrimeCraft is headed to iPhone and Facebook, and having gone free-to-play D&D Online is doing great, apparently.

Also, Star War Galaxies is overrun with zombies. That’s right. Zombies.

It’s all there kids. Enjoy.

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Age of Conan dev Funcom is to drop 20 percent of its workforce, according to E24, resulting in a “significant delay” to upcoming MMO The Secret World.

The game had never been officially dated, but was expected in 2010.

The company employs around 300 staff, so 60 jobs look set to go.

Funcom’s currently in the process of relocating to Quebec and it’s debatable legal games-related tax breaks. It lost $34 million last year.

Thanks, GI and EG.

Looks like a new level 80 dungeon, the Iron Tower, and a veteran rewards program is heading to Age of Conan.

This bit of good news was revealed in the latest director’s letter on the official site.

The veteran rewards program uses “veteran points” – instead of a reward per-month interval system – with monthly points that can either be saved or spent via a new veteran reward shop. One of these rewards is an item that summons Casilda, the slave from the tutorial whose boobs shake, to “cheer you on as you fight things”.

As far as the new dungeon is concerned, the Iron Tower is a team effort that is loaded to the gills with Aquilonia criminals, five different bosses, four mini-bosses, and possibly a rare boss.

Good to know that more stuff is headed Hyboria’s way.

Thanks, Massively.

Loads of stuff happened this week with MMOs. Bethesda laughed off an Elder Scrolls MMO, APB started the Beta application process, Aion released pretty trailers, Star Wars will be playable at GamesCom and all other sorts of interesting things happened.

What we didn’t tell you about was that Lord of the Rings Online got some new jewelry and bounty quests in Esteldin, Funcom will announce Conan stuff at PAX, and there were some rumored leaks on the upcoming WoW expansion posted all over God’s green earth.

For all of this and more, read on past the break.

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It’s Saturday again, and time for your dose of MMO news.

This one has been branded the “trouble” edition, because certain MMOS were either in trouble, or getting out of it this week.

First off, Stargate Worlds is rumored to be in massive trouble, Age of Conan isn’t in as much any more, and China has ungrounded World of Warcraft but only a tiny bit. It can still go out on dates, but not whore about the countryside like it had been doing. What a tart.

Other than those bits, the week in MMOs was a bit uneventful. Yeah sure, the major news hit the front page as usual, but there are a few things you may want to know about that didn’t. For that, and the rest of it, along with a song devoted to Second Life, read on below.

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Funcom’s CEO Trond Arne Aas has said that Age of Conan has been turned around by the company and because of this, players are returning and server activity has increased.

“The problems for Age of Conan arose after the game had been live for a period of time, as players progressed into parts of the game where content turned out to be too thin and advanced features simply weren’t good enough,” the CEO told GI.biz. “There were also performance issues on some machines, and the items and RPG system – even though it worked exactly as we designed it – did not engage players for as long as we had hoped for.”

“We have turned most if not all of this around and we have corrected these issues through a series of massive updates. For us it was never an option to drop the game despite the challenges we faced.

“I can say that we have seen very positive trends in subscription longevity and server activity, and I think this is proof that we are turning around the fortune of Age of Conan.”

More through the link.

Funcom has announced that players who used to have an Age of Conan account can come back for free.

From now until July 22, former can players re-activate their accounts with no obligations and receive 2 weeks of additional free playtime.

Hopefully all the improvements made over the months and the upcoming expansion will sway opinions on it.

More through the official site.

Age of Conan’s first expansion will be revealed during GamesCom in August.

“We will be revealing the first expansion for Age of Conan at the GamesCom show in August,” said Funcom’s Erling Ellingsen.

“We have lots of exciting stuff to reveal and Conan players and gamers in general are in for a real treat, but for now, our lips are sealed until then.”

Attendees can expect to see in-game footage, new quests, monsters, environments and other goodies.

More over on Massively.

Loads this week in MMO news, and some is more interesting than what we have been offered in previous weeks.

FussionFall is getting an expansion for its 5 million users, the EQI&II trademark rumors turned out to be new expansions, Star Wars will be on hand at Comic-Con, and Conan got a new update.

Also, Warhammer and LotRO are celebrating the summer with festivities to make things a bit more zany and fun.

Find out all about these and others after the break.

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