The process of accruing all the resources requires you travel to specific resource and building zones, of which there are three in the world. The zones are instanced, and within you'll find plenty of resource nodes scattered around in addition to the site upon which your guild's city will eventually be constructed.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is described as "a massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) based on the world and works of acclaimed author Robert E. Howard. In Age of Conan, players enter Hyboria with thousands of their friends and enemies to live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King Conan."

Gaute Godager, founder of Funcom and game director said: "As we get ready to unleash the most brutal MMO ever created we will let an increasing amount of players test our creation. With extended Beta testing for months to come, we can hone and polish based on large-scale feedback, allowing us to fulfill the potential of the game."

Age of Conan has been in development for more than four years and to highlight the release of this epic title, an investor update (via Voodoo Extreme) shows that Funcom and Eidos are willing to spend nearly 12% of the company's anticipated gross revenues on promoting the game.

Originally scheduled for March, the extended eight weeks will go towards ensuring the final product is water-tight once it goes online.

While that's not a lot of text, it means the auction house is up, the in-game mail system is working, and player and guild banks are functioning. That's big for anyone who's been wondering about their whereabouts since launch.