Funcom has partnered with Gamespot to open up the Age of Conan beta for a PvP weekend from Friday April 18th to Sunday April 20th. They'll be accepting 15,000 players for the event, and you can sign-up for it with your GameSpot registration.

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This fall, a unique reward and character evolution system called Powerpoints will be introduced. This rewards active in-game behavior, and allows for gathering points through numerous methods, including owning a Battlekeep, playing the end-game at level 80, winning PvP matches, or simply being an active guild member or subscribing to the game.

Rangers, range weapon specialists, pick off their opponents at a distance with the bow and crossbow, but are also able to fight back if encountered close up. They can use cloth armor, light armor, medium armor, shields, one handed edged weapons, one handed blunt, daggers, bows and crossbows.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures developer Funcom has reported its fourth-quarter earnings, for the three-month period ending December 31, 2007. Revenues slightly declined over the same period the previous year from $2.1 million to $1.7 million, and losses before taxes widened from $1 million to $3.1 million.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will be a PC "online action RPG" that will be a mix of "story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer endgame."

Crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women is clearly best in life. So when the opportunity presents itself, it better go off without a hitch.

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The world of Conan the Cimmerian, the fantasy barbarian of legend created by Robert E. Howard, portrayed in films by Arnold Schwarzenegger and re-created in several games, is returning to consoles. Funcom today announced that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has been approved for the Xbox 360 by Microsoft.

Today Funcom sent out a press release with the title "Age of Conan Reaches One Million Milestone." At first glance, many took the headline as meaning the Norwegian developer's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures had already enrolled 1 million subscribers. That would be a mean feat, given that it had only 400,000 subscribers last week.