Intrigued by Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures but not all-too sure if you should get it or not? Why not try it out first? Don't worry, it's free. Yep, this is no April Fool's joke. Funcom has announced that their best-selling MMO title of 2008 will be made available as free trial right at this very moment. Thanks to Fileplanet and Ausgamers, you can now download and play Age of Conan for a total of free seven to fourteen days. That's a lot of free time, literally.

MMO gamers itching to try out EA Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will finally be able to do so this September 7, when the game's open beta phase finally goes live. Players in North America can access the open beta buy pre-ordering the game or by visiting FilePlanet.com and signing up for a limited number of available slots. Find out more about this exciting open beta event in our full article.

A few days before release, players can test the waters of Hyboria. Funcom, Eidos Interactive and IGN just announced a collaborative effort to take Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures to open beta phase with 50,000 slots available. Details await at the full article.

Here's the latest update on Gravity Interactive's MMORPG, Requiem: Bloodymare. The "mature-themed" game that features a post-apocalyptic world filled with grotesque creatures has already begun as a closed beta. Find out the details in the full article.

Today, World of Warcraft; tomorrow, Guild Wars, Hellgate: London and Half-Life 2. That's what Blue Orb has in mind for the SwitchBlade software solution, which allows gamers to play WoW using an Xbox 360 controller. Blue Orb has also tweaked their SwitchBlade software with regards to WoW, so if you're interested in knowing what Blue Orb has planned for the future, the full article awaits, after the jump.

NCsoft recently updated its popular MMORPG Lineage II to the 1st Throne expansion. If you missed it, there's no reason to worry. We've got some notes from the NCsoft official Lineage site to help you get everything in shape. Helpful notes follow in the full article.

Many beta testers complained about problems with connecting to the beta testing servers of Pirates of the Burning Sea, and Flying Lab Software did something great to compensate for the trouble: letting anyone with Stress Test II keys join in on the beta testing fun. More details in the full article!

Interested in joining Flying Lab Software's Pirates of the Burning Sea beta? It's actually easy, and doesn't involve invite raffles. All you have to do is to join the second server stress test this weekend, and level up your character. More details in the full article!

With the official launch of Flying Lab Software's Pirates of the Burning Sea only a little over two months away, Flying Lab Software is inviting PotBS players to sign up early for the second installment of their PotBS stress test event. Dubbed the Fileplanet PotBS Open Stress Test, the event will begin tomorrow, November 15, 2007 and end on Sunday, November 18, 2007.

More on the stress test after the jump!

Been waiting to get your hands on NCSoft's upcoming MMO video game Tabula Rasa? Well, a report from IGN's VE3D.com might just pique your interest.

Reportedly, Richard Garriott's next massively multiplayer online game will be opening its beta doors to members of FilePlanet, a subsidiary of IGN. According to the report, there hasn't been any announcements with regards to when exactly this will happen, though they suggested an ETA of "later this month".

Interested? It wasn't specified whether the Tabula Rasa will be opened to all FilePlanet members, old or new. But at any rate, why not take your chances, right? What better opportunity to check out the game before it goes live?