Erling Ellingsen gave us an update about what's up with Funcom's upcoming MMO offering, Age of Conan. Erling actually had a lot to say, not only about the game but about MMOs in general. He kicked things off by stating the importance of single-player experiences.

It looks like Conan's going to get prettified during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Funcom and Eidos will be showing off a version of their Age of Conan MMO at CES that runs on DirectX 10 at the Microsoft booth.

The latest MMORPG from Funcom is built on Robert E. Howard's many short stories revolving around a certain age when Conan has gained the throne and is slowly losing his grasp over the kingdom. Threats loom far and wide across the land, while vengeful gods and goddesses hold a strong grip on people's lives.

The technical beta for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has already kicked off, but those who weren't lucky enough to be chosen to beta test this MMORPG won't have to worry as Funcom has news for you.

While Gods And Heroes may have taken MMORPG's "Best of Show" at the recent E3 Convention, three other leading gaming websites have other ideas. Preferring the world of Hyboria to that of Imperial Rome, IGN, Gamespot and Gamespy were in agreement as they awarded their ‘Best Game of Show' prizes in the MMO genre to Age of Conan.

It seems that the developers from Funcom have missed a couple of important patch changes in the June 23 patch notes! Thankfully, a certain enterprising forum poster (yes, krazymagic, I mean you) compiled the undocumented patch changes for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and released it to the general gaming community.

Why play Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC, Xbox 360)? By Crom, I can think of quite a number of reasons, but most of them would boil down to arming yourself to the teeth with deadly weapons and culling the weak from the many humans that populate the lush virtual world. Then again I am a blogger of limited imagination.

Funcom has announced one rather impressive bit of news for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The company sent out a press release stating that the Collector's Edition of Age of Conan is now completely sold out in all markets.

Jorgen Tharaldsen, the product director for Funcom's Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Xbox 360, PC), has announced that they plan to have cross-platform connectivity between the Xbox 360 and PC version of the game.