Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Free Trials Return!

Funcom has announced the return of their seven day free trial program! Gamers who haven’t yet given the game a spin, or those who’ve not been back in some time are encouraged to check out the update notes section of the website and see what they’ve done with the game since they launched it in 2008.

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Sift Renegade 2

Sift Renegade 2 features some new action packed fighting levels and intense plot-twisting storyline as Kiro meets new enemies with new rage mode, and special attacks.

Java diagnostics, IBM style, Part 5: Optimizing your application with the Health Center

IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java – Health Center is a tool for monitoring a running Java application. It reports on all aspects of system health via charts, graphs, and tables, and it makes recommendations for fixing problems. The Health Center includes an extremely low-overhead method profiler, a garbage-collection visualizer, a locking profiler to identify contention bottlenecks, and a configuration explorer. Find out how you can use this tool to diagnose and fix performance, configuration, and stability issues in your applications.

The Support Authority: Analyze memory management problems with the Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J)

The Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J) tool helps you diagnose
memory leaks and other excessive memory consumption problems in applications
running in IBM Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). This article introduces you to
MDD4J and shows you how to use its sophisticated analysis engine and user
interface to peer into the Java heap so you can see which objects are
consuming the most amount of memory. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Staff Cuts Will Not Delay Godslayer

Yesterday, we reported on a 20% cut to staff at Funcom that also came with the comment that Funcom’s upcoming horror themed MMOG, The Secret World, would indeed be delayed several months due to these changes. The report left many of us wondering if these changes would also have an affect on the release of Age of Conan’s Rise of the Godslayer expansion, and today, a Funcom spokesperson speaking to Jamie Davey of Strategy Informer reassures us that the recent cuts will have “little to no effect”.

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