After a wealth of new information and footage, as well as a brand new website… FunCom comes forth with even more announcements regarding this interesting upcoming MMORPG. Perhaps most interesting is a major change to the class list of this game: the Lich class has been removed and it’s abilities have been partially merged with the similar Necromancer class. Meanwhile the Scion of Set and Druid of the Storm have been merged into a Tempest of Set class. According to FunCom these changed were made, because the Scion of Set and Lich felt too similar to other classes.

Only moments after this news hit the Age of Conan community. FunCom followed up by announcing that Drunken Brawls wouldn’t be in for launch. This interesting fighting mechanic akin to Guild Wars: Eye of the North’s non-level/class-dependant dwarven fistfights, will now be released in a patch after release. Yet almost as to make up for it, FunCom then announced that a Thief-like stealth system - including HUD indicators - would be in place and usable for all classes. Many upsets all around and understandably the official forum is in termoil right now, as no one really knows what to expect anymore.

And now it seems FunCom has decided to postpone the game for a release on May 20th. A very strange move after only recently confirming that the game would be released on the 28th of March, announcing the contents of the Collector’s Edition and spreading pre-order boxes worldwide. What does this mean for the current state of the game? And how does this affect drunken brawling, will it be in at launch or not?

I’ll keep my eyes peeled on this one. Gameplay footage and what information is available make it out to become a great game to play, but these recent events do seem a tad worrying. Hopefully FunCom will manage to prove that postponing to May was the right thing to do and deliver one heck of a game come launch day!

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As gaming sites all over the internet report on supposed poor sales for Unreal Tournament 3, the scene itself is proving to be surprisingly active! I’ve been participating in the CTF scene quite a bit as of late, having recently rejoined UT3 CTF clan DooZer, as The X-Factor Project died off. And it looks like the recent announcement of a ClanBase-hosted CTF cup organised by my clanmates killer397 and fnt has really shook up the community.

Players who have been lounging about the #UT3.CTF channel on Quakenet aught to have noticed already. There are more and more clans popping up, with the cup now counting 23 clans & roughly 170 players signed up, and all of them are actively playing practice matches and pickups every night. Meanwhile there are also loads of freelance players still looking for teams and playing along with other teams in practice matches, as even oldschool UT players return in droves. That’s right - it looks like UT3 is now really starting to pick up!

So head on over to that ClanBase UT3 CTF Cup Page & #UT3.CTF IRC channel and join in on the fun! Don’t have a clan? No problem, the cup page has lists of clans still looking for additional players - and you can always form your own, there are still a lot of freelance players out there!

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Fortunately for you landlubbers, I spent some time with this game during the open beta test. So rather than just whisking you off to some obscure official website with mere tidbits of information - I can provide you with the information that you really want to know: ‘is this game worth my hard-earned cash?’

So let’s get to it shall we?

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After one of the most amazing months in gaming history, December was bound to disappoint. However few would have expected the month of gifts, holidays and enormous profits to be this meager. In truth there haven’t really been any impressive releases this past month, as publishers seemed to take a brief respite from their hail of quality games. As such you’ll find this entry to be particularly short for a Most Impressive PC Games list, but it does feature a couple of decent games that happened to be released in December 2007.

Many new games are released every month, but which of these games are the ones worth buying? That’s what I’ll help you find out, in this monthly recurring series of Most Impressive PC Games. So when a new month begins, be certain to head on over to The Game Drone for a quick rundown of the latest and greatest titles, including links to game demos - where available - so you can give them a try for yourself!

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What follows below is a list of many PC games scheduled to hit stores worldwide in the coming year. Some games might not be included due to an unclear release date (Duke Nukem Forever, although Forever seems like it might be an indication of the development time) or no official announcement of the name of a particular project (GarageGames new Tribes-like shooter set for late 2008). Furthermore all release dates are for the European market wherever possible, which means they may not coincide with the release dates for other territories.

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