Funcom and Eidos’ highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has been awarded the official ‘Best Online Game of the Show’ award at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. The trade show is one of the largest gaming conventions in the world and by far the largest in Europe, with all of the major upcoming game titles represented.

The award was won in competition with online games from all genres and across all platforms, and was presented by a jury consisting of gaming industry press and mainstream press.

The game also won the award for Best Online Game, presented by a German online games magazine association made up of the most important gaming media in Germany including two of the largest gaming web sites. Other nominees for this award included Warhammer Online, Hellgate: London and Unreal Tournament 3.

“This is a great honour to everyone working on Age of Conan,” says Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. “These awards really show that our massive efforts are paying off and that the public, the press and the industry are recognising the very strong qualities of the game.”

Age of Conan was heavily represented at this year’s Games Convention. The game was being shown behind closed doors. Funcom was showing all new content, including player-versus-player sieges and mini-games.

“Siege warfare and player-versus-player battles are some of the most anticipated features in Age of Conan,” says Game Director Gaute Godager. “We recognise the tremendous importance that Games Convention has in the industry and that is why we chose this to be the arena for first showing off these features, letting gamers play player-versus-player for the first time.”

Age of Conan is a key title in Microsoft's Games for Windows line-up, as well as being a showcase DirectX 10 title for nVidia. The game is currently in general beta and players can sign up for testing at ageofconan.com.