Age of Conan's quest for fresh duds      
Enter French clothing company Inno-Wear, who create duds based on game properties such as Trackmania Nations and Devil May Cry 4. Their latest rights acquisition is, naturally, Age of Conan. It's not known at this time whether that means you'll get to wear the same things your character wears, or simply street gear branded with various AoC logos.
 
Cinemassively: AoC vs. WoW      
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First glimpse of Age of Conan PvP gear!      
Reticent at first, AoC developer LordOrion has confirmed (in the midst of a coughing fit) that this is PvP gear. Along with the announcement some days ago concerning an imminent PvP consequence system, this whoops-how-clumsy-of-me 'leak' further confirms that the PvP system is seeing some serious tinkering behind the scenes.
 
Are female characters really penalized in Age of Conan?      
Now that the initial euphoria of Age of Conan's release is ebbing, the criticism of its bugs and other problems is gathering momentum. FunCom will, no doubt, track down and fix this issue as soon as they can, but as bugs go, this has to rank among the more unfortunate. We're well aware that some of the Age of Conan designers worked hard to counterbalance the characteristic sexism of the setting. Issues like this just risk undermining that work.
 
Nonsurprise: AoC top selling PC game last week of May      
The NPD Group's sales figures for the week ending May 31 feature Age of Conan in first place. Funcom's MMO tribute to barbarism defeated Mass Effect, the highly anticipated single-player RPG from legendary studio BioWare. Most of the top 10 list is populated by various World of Warcraft and The Sims 2 retail packages, as per usual.
 
One Shots: Mammoth mounting      
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AoC: Necromancers in line for radical changes      
The rationale behind all this is to bring Necromancers into line with what they were originally designed to be: 'Given the importance of pet damage in the overall design of the Necromancer class, we feel that this will introduce lower-level players to the nature of the class in a better way.'
 
NVIDIA VP heralds the end of PC-exclusive games      
If you just look at MMOs, which continue to drive the popularity of PC gaming, you can see that this is plainly false. While there are a number of MMOs scheduled to be released for consoles, with high profile names like Age of Conan, Champions Online, All Points Bulletin, and perhaps even Dungeons and Dragons, nobody has proven they can navigate the "maze of challenges" that come with cross-platform MMO development, let alone make a profit doing it. And in this blogger's mind, until MMOs officially cross-over to the dark side, it's too early to proclaim the PC-exclusive dead. Making AoC Gold is necessary.
 
What this morning's AoC patch notes didn't mention      
We think the most positive of the undocumented changes has to be the fix to the Summon to Instance command. You don't know what that does? Don't worry, plenty of other people don't either. What it means is that the leader of a group can now summon the other group members to his own instance of the zone.
 
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures -- Pile-on (PC)      
Naturally, GameSpy wasn't about to be left out of all the sword-swinging, spell-slinging, virgin-rescuing, demon-slaying, decapitating fun, so we've had four of our most barbaric editors running around Hybori for the last seven days killing everything they meet and gathering information on how the game is proceeding, leading up to our official review later this week. AoC Gold is one of the most coveted virtual items in the world.
 
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