Along with the rather dull industry news that Eidos picked up publishing rights for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures comes more depressing word that Funcom is also pushing out the MMORPG until 2007.

Despite the fact that Funcom took the path of least resistance when taking Robert E. Howard's vivid but politically incorrect fantasy world and translating it to an MMORPG, I've been looking forward to this one. So bummer. But to take some of the depression off, it looks as if console versions of Age of Conan are planned... the 360 being the most strongly rumored contender.

Videogamesblogger.com has more. This detail gave me pause: "The first 20 hours of the game is single player, before you head out online for the rest of the game." Twenty hours? God, we hope that's optional... making an alt just got twenty hours more tedious. Florian Eckhardt

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures picked up by Eidos, delayed till 2007 [Videogamesblogger.com]

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