Assassin: When compared to the barbarian, Funcom asserts that the assassin is a more straightforward class since he won't be dealing with crowd control or managing multiple enemies.

The barbarian is meant to be a raging, out-of-control fighter class, but is grouped under the Rogue archetype simply because he won't have the number of hit points of the tank classes, and therefore can't last as long as Soldier-types on a fight's front lines.

Barbarian play style with a two-handed weapon centers more on knockbacks and crowd control whereas the dual-wielding focuses on extremely high damage per second (DPS) on single targets.

Barbarian: This is the class many think of when somebody mentions the name Conan or references the mythos. He's got the ability to dual wield or smash on enemies with two-handed weapons, and he can focus his feats on either armament type.

If you're unfamiliar with how combat works in the Age of Conan Gold game, set to release next month, we already went over the basics in yesterday's article. Before we get into the remaining six classes, though, we'll give a little more detail on character creation.

We won't have a review posted for quite some time since it's a gigantic game with myriad facets to consider. Over the coming weeks we'll bring you impressions of our experience as we check out the content after level 20, the open-world exploration, free-for-all player-versus-player [PvP] combat, arena PvP, and trade skill systems.

May 20, 2008 - The U.S. servers for Funcom's long-anticipated Age of Conan Gold game: Hyborian Adventures are now live and, based on our experience so far, things seem to be going fairly well.

Below are posted some videos taken by one of our work PCs, which includes a GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB card, 2 GB RAM, and a 2.4 Core 2 Quad CPU running Vista 32-bit.

While many on various message boards made a big deal about the Age of Conan Gold game's poor graphical performance issues during the beta testing phase, Funcom surprised just about everyone with some last-minute updates and enhancements.

Funcom has posted the update notes for the most recent expansion for Age of Conan Gold game: Hyborean Adventures.