Age Of Conan developer Funcom has been awarded a NOK 1.5 million ($262,000) grant from the Norwegian Film Fund to aid its development of a new extreme sports game.
 
“Funcom is working on a new project called Board With The World,” Erling Ellingsen, the company’s director of communications told us. “This will be a free-to-play social MMO focusing on the world of extreme sports."
 
The company is in the early stages of planning the project and expects to use the funds to begin work on a prototype in January 2010.

“First and foremost we will be focusing on snowboarding, with the possibility of adding different sports later,” Ellingsen added. “We also want this to be a social world rich with different types of media content and pop-cultural elements such as music, video and even fashion.”