Looking good: Age of Conan MMORPG

File under 'games I wish I had the time to play': there's a new MMORPG on the way, one that's based in the Hyborian world of Robert E. Howard's Conan sagas.

Age of Conan looks, frankly, rather superb, and seems like it could very easilt become exactly the sort of totally immesrive, life-consuming obsession that I've been assidiously avoiding for at least six years now (seriously, I haven't so much as downloaded a single demo for even one MMORPG title; I just know that if I did I'd never get anything useful done, ever again...)

Here's a quick screenshot, to give you an idea of the atmospherics, and there are dozens more on the website:

Screenshot from Age of Conan copyright Funcom, 2006

The game is still in heavy development and won't be seeing the light of day until sometime in 2007. And, luckily for me, this one has been slated as a Windows Vista showcase game, so seeing as I won't be installing that particular piece of ~~crap~~ software for at least two years after release (and no doubt about twenty 'service pack' patches later), then with any luck I'm perfectly safe from temptation, this time around at least...