In the story, ¡°Queen of the Black Coast,¡± Conan lounges in moonlit reverie on the deck of a galley beside the pirate
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Conan is no hero. The best Conan stories end not in
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It is a world that could only now become a successful video game.
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With its essentially amoral tenor, one can almost think of Age of Conan as akin
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And Age of Conan is just a very different sort of game. Grand Theft Auto and other popular console games like Call of Duty are playable online, but they are structured more like sports matches in which a few dozen players compete in a specific manner for perhaps 15 minutes at a time. By contrast, a massively multiplayer game like Age of Conan or World of Warcraft is an immense round-the-clock online environment where thousands of players simultaneously go about their
But Age of Conan is similar to Grand Theft Auto in that the player is no
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