Eidos has been hard at work for one of its upcoming titles, Age of Conan, and the company (along with Funcom) has just launched www.ageofconan.com, where you can see the new trailers of the game, along with screenshots, artwork and more. The website is an entertaining and informative experience for both new and existing fans. "As an online gaming company we are always focused on improving our online presence, and the launch of the new Age of Conan website is a move we wanted to do prior to launch," said Morten Larssen, VP of Sales & Marketing in Funcom. "With the new website we have tried to capture the very essence of what the Conan brand is all about, and we hope both fans and newcomers will enjoy it." Age of Conan is consistently mentioned as one of the most anticipated PC games in development. It has received more than twenty magazine covers and more than fifteen major awards, including numerous "Best MMO of E3" awards and the official "Best Online Game of Show" award at the GC convention 2007. Age of Conan is a key title in Microsoft's Games for Windows line-up, as well as a showcase title for nVidia. Below you can see a bloody video trailer (warning! - some scenes are very "graphic").



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 You're probably familiar with the Smallville TV show and what it is all about: a younger version of Clark Kent (aka Superman) and also a younger Lex Luthor, who used to be one of the good friends of Clark. The actor playing as Lex, Michael Rosenbaum, will be the voice of Hayden Tenno, a vicious killer who awakens to find he has been infected with a mysterious entity that grants him super-powers in the upcoming video game Dark Sector. Peter Andrew, vice president of product development, D3PA, said: "We are thrilled to work with Mr. Rosenbaum on Dark Sector"(...) "His experience in portraying tormented characters on-screen translates incredibly well to the tortured character of Hayden Tenno in Dark Sector, a true anti-hero who makes no excuses for his actions. The combination of his voice talent and the compelling storyline of Dark Sector will offer a truly immersive experience for players."

Electronic Arts has announced that the Dead Space video game will also have a PC version, scheduled to be released this fall. Glen Schofield, the Executive Producer has mentioned that one of the projects, the downloadable content for all formats, is in the works, but that the plans are much more extended than that: "I would definitely like to make future Dead Space games,” said Schofield. "I’d love for this to become a well established franchise; we’ve created a huge and rich back story and universe, so other games could easily be made." So gamers should be quite interested since this would be one of the scariest titles that ha ever been created for the PC. It will feature a lot of elements similar to the ones in Half-Life 2, with the action set mostly on the single-player story, with puzzles which need to be solved by using a gravity gun, like in the game Portal.

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