Already Friday again so here's the short overview on the past week and also some information about what might be coming up next week:

On Monday the latest Letter from the Game Director was published, bringing interesting news about the show in Korea together with the latest status of the 1.06 update including information about some of the plans to further balance melee users and casters. If you haven't checked it out already, you can read the letter here.


A few weeks ago we mentioned that the community portal's layout and presentation had been slightly revamped. In the meantime we added a few more pictures and also updated some of the texts to reflect most of the changes done since launch. This is still an ongoing process so we will keep on adding a few things here and there. Please note that you now also can follow Age of Conan on Facebook as well as Twitter.


For those of you who haven't seen the announcement yet - there is a 'Rise of the Godslayer' Live demonstration happening on XFire next week on Monday 7th December at 20:00 GMT (check this link to find out what time this is in your timezone). The play session will be streamed on the XFire website and is accessible to everyone. Visit XFire.com for more information. The presentation will also be available afterwards on XFire for those who didn't get the chance to follow it live.


Now to the topic I bet everyone has been waiting for: Update 1.06. As much as we would have loved to put the update to the testlive servers this week, there are still a few things that need to be fixed first. As mentioned in the past few weeks, the update is coming along very good and we were able to get rid of quite a few issues that kept it from being testable by our players. There remain however a few minor issues that make it impossible to thoroughly test the new features such as guild renown as well as the Tier Three gameplay. It just wouldn't make any sense to put it on testlive when the new features would not be 100% available for testing. We are very close to get these issues out of the way and are confident that Update 1.06 will be ready for testing very, very soon. We will keep you informed throughout the next week about the current status of Update 1.06 as soon as we have news on the subject.

Have a great weekend all