Additional retail figures for the standard edition of Age of Conan are also highly impressive． In total, Funcom is shipping around 700．000 copies of Age of Conan on day one． This impressive figure for a PC game is powered by equally impressive pre-order numbers．
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． The Oslo, Norway-based developer expects sales to continue to climb as retailers restock the standard edition of the game． Based on the savage universe first imagined by Robert E． Howard, Age of Conan drops players into the unforgiving online realm of the Hyborian Age．
Despite the continuing losses, Funcom maintains the negative numbers are exactly what it expected given an increase in the cost of sales and marketing for the upcoming Age of Conan game．
I played with spellweaving the other day, and I must say： It is a very scary experience． My necromancer character had dark matter and skulls growing out of the ground everywhere around her, and gradually my powers changed． Spells that normally were applied to only a single target started spreading out and damaging huge belts of opponents in a cascading madness．
Now, Conan fans yearning for adventure on their computers have something to look forward to． North Carolina-based publisher Funcom announced today that it is developing Age of Conan： Hyborian Adventures, a new role-playing game featuring the brawny barbarian．
While the visuals did display a little slowdown in some intensive scenes, the demo averaged more than 35 frames per second, and Tharaldsen said that there was still plenty that Funcom could do to optimize and improve the frame rate．
Vaughan, ON (April 9, 2008) - Ideazon Inc．, designer and developer of the Zboard?, the world′s first interchangeable keyboard designed for PC gamers, today announced its new Age of Conan Limited Edition Keyset for Zboard．
In this edition of the Clan of Conan newsletter we look into what sort of enhancements and content you can expect to hit Age of Conan in the next few weeks and months． Remember, we're working relentlessly on updating the game as often as possible, and what we have listed in the newsletter is but a part of what we're doing to the game these days．
The complaints stem from a decision to partner with IGN's Fileplanet for distribution of keys to their beta． In order for players to qualify for an AoC beta key, they have to be the proud owners of a premium membership at Fileplanet (which costs $5 per month for a year)．
