Age of Conan launching on March 25, 2008

Funcom announced that their MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures will launch on March 25, 2008; it was originally set for release on October 30, 2007. In the meantime, here’s the E3 ’07 trailer.

In some heroic news for the day, a 9-year-old boy saved his father’s life, who fell asleep behind the wheel of his tractor-trailer. The boy, Matt Lovo, took over the wheel of the 100,000 pound truck and called for help… Read More »

The latest in the battle between Too Human developer Silicon Knights and Unreal Engine 3 peddler Epic games, which has already seen an initial suit followed by a countersuit, is a harsh dismissal of Epic’s claim by Silicon Knight’s attorney… Read More »

Apparently, somebody somewhere in the United States made a video of themselves shooting an innocent bystander with a sniper rifle in GTA3. I know what you’re thinking: how do we STOP these madmen!? There’s more though. Apparently while doing it,… Read More »

Pure gaming enthusiasts will gladly argue to their grave that gameplay prevails over graphics. If a game has dazzling visuals and awesome eye-candy, but is befuddled by horrendous gameplay and problematic bugs, then that game will be heckled and dumped… Read More »

Capcom is planning round #2 of updates for the PC version of their shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (round #1 was released on July 17th). On August 16th, the update will contain DirectX 10 enhancements, a basic chatting system and… Read More »

No, not THAT Mike Meyers. Michael Meyers of Michael Meyers PR sent out a well-written email earlier this evening, encouraging industry members to write to Governor Schwarzenegger and try to stop his appeal of California’s Anti-Video Game Bill, AB1179. Since… Read More »

This week Nintendo announced that they will be issuing another strap upgrade to the Wiimote controllers. This time around, they are adding a security clip that locks the strap loop from unloosening. The first upgrade was a thicker strap that,… Read More »

Around this time next month, Xbox 360 and PC users will have explored the dark, art deco underwater city of Rapture in Irrational Game’s first title, Bioshock. If you’ve read our coverage of the game, it’s clearly shaping up to… Read More »

Over on Joystiq, they held an interview with NCsoft’s Executive Producer Brian Clayton, where they talked about NCsoft’s partnership with Sony and the current landscape of MMOs for consoles. During this year’s E3, Sony revealed that NCsoft is now an… Read More »