If you're like some of us here at QJ.NET anxiously awaiting Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, then here's a deluge of screenshots, artwork, the latest logo, and the European packshot. It's enough for any barbarian to want to go out and start pillaging some villages in glee.

Following up our previous post on the Age of Conan design team, lead designer Ole Herbjonsen expounds more on what the other people on the design team do. This time he's putting the microscope over the item, special effects, quest, and system designers.

Funcom World Designer, Thomas Wolbekk, who is currently dabbling on the MMORPG, Age of Conan, got up close and personal with MMORPG.com as he gamely talked about his childhood, his first video game, and his influences.

Beautiful and voluptuous babes in video games have always been one of the biggest fantasies of any hardcore gamer.

World of Warcraft (WoW) is definitely the strongest and most successful MMO video game out there today. This is not say though that there is no competition.

We've seen the Conan movie and one thing really bothered us. If you push a large wheel for a couple of years, will it make your body pump up like Arnold's? So far, we've been pushing like crazy and we're still nowhere near the guy's physique.

Eurogamer has considered MMOs as a separate platform from the PC as it is a growing part of the gaming world with each passing year. As a result to WoW's success (read: cash cow), MMOs are popping up like mushrooms.

Assistant Art Director Grant Regan for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures reveals that the locations in Hyboria are not merely represented by the world design, but are identified as well by the design of the weapons and armor that the opposing forces will use.

Huge Age of Conan feature, including several interviews with the development team, exclusive artwork and our preview of the game.

Ok, before you skip to the bottom of this article and post a comment, please read the post since I know that a lot of people who play MMORPGs will immediately have a knee jerk reaction to this rather touchy topic.