UPDATE: Age of Conan Unchained is now officially live! Head over to the game's official site to try it out.

Last month, Funcom announced that Age of Conan would be switching to a free-to-play hybrid business model this summer. It looks like that day has quickly arrived, because Age of Conan Unchained is in the midst of launching! The servers are currently down to implement Update 2.6, and when they come back up the game will be free-to-play. Also, that is indeed a name change from the original Age of Conan Unrated title.

PC Gamer got to speak with Executive Producer Craig Morrison about the launch of Unchained. Here's what he had to say about the sudden launch: " We didn’t want to have too long of a delay between the announcement and the release, mainly so that people wouldn’t put off trying the game because they wanted to wait for the new offer."

For more details on Age of Conan going free-to-play and the Conan the Barbarian movie tie-in, be sure to check out our recent Q&A with Morrison. While you wait for the update to go live, watch the Age of Conan Unchained launch trailer below!