Hey,
I know it's not strictly Australian news given Funcom is a Norwegian studio but there are three Australians here working on Age of Conan, Dan Cormick and Sonia Tyndale as GFX Artists and myself as lead Concept Artist. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in checking out a sample of the environments and combat as screened on US G4TV (they were int he office a fortnight ago.
http://media.g4tv.com/video/ep1607ageofconanhyborianadvpc_G4750.swf
Anyone interested in checking out the game so far, go to:
Cheers
grant/unit
I'll definately check this out next month (in a few days) when my broadband connection goes back from being capped at 64k. (Shakes fist at stupid 10 gig limit.)
Another link worth checking out is the new Project Offset videos (which I'm sure Rod Green worked on):
http://www.projectoffset.com/downloads.html