MMORPG.com Age of Conan Correspondent John Humphrey writes this look at marketing and how Age of Conan, a totally revamped game with an expansion on the way, can learna thing or two from Blizzard.
Katie Price ‘to quit’ I’m A Celebrity jungle
Angry Katie Price has warned she will quit I’m A Celebrity if voters keep condemning her to gruesome bushtucker trials.
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Alexandra Burke finally shrugs off her X Factor
Review: X Factor winner Alexandra Burke proved she’s developed into star with a perfect pop performance.
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Practically Groovy: SwingBuilder and the Twitter API, Part 2
In this Practically Groovy article, Scott Davis continues building the Groovy Twitter client named Gwitter that he began in Part 1. This time, he tackles HTTP Basic authentication and use of Groovy's ConfigSlurper to read in configuration settings.
Take That’s Gary and Robbie are back for good
Robbie Williams and former Take That bandmate Gary Barlow sang together again for the first time in 15 years at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Secret World Beta in New Funcom Offer
Funcom has re-launched their re-evaluation campaign for Age of Conan, this time offering players new incentives to return and subscribe to Age of Conan for extended periods.
As part of the re-evaluation campaign players who have inactive subscriptions are invited back to play Age of Conan free for two weeks, and will receive a double XP boost during their free period.
X Factor earns £8,000 per second
The X Factor is set to pull in an astonishing £8,000 per second from TV ads during the live final, it has been revealed today.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Blog – Behind the Scenes: Content Team
The Funcom team has updated their official AoC Blog here at MMORPG.com. This time, Glen “Famine” Swan takes a behind-the-scenes look at the game’s content team.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Morrison On Melee vs. Ranged Balance
Today, we ask Funcom’s Craig Morrison about his philosophies on attempting to balance ranged and melee combat styles in an MMO.
The Support Authority: Know what your Web application is really doing
The IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java – Health Center is a
lightweight tool that monitors IBM virtual machines for Java with minimal
performance overhead. It provides live information and recommendations about
classes being loaded, the virtual machine environment, garbage collection,
locking, and profiling. This article introduces you to the Health Center and
shows an example of how it can be used to check the impact of a source code
change in a Web application.
X Factor ‘made Amy Winehouse choke’ on curry
Amy Winehouse almost choked on her food as she watched Rachel Adedeji booted off The X Factor.
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Use Sun SPOTs as your build canary
Find out how to turn a new, open source wireless device — Sun's Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) — into a highly visible indicator of the health of a Continuous Integration build. Craig Caulfield introduces you to Sun SPOTs and the SPOT SDK, then shows how to use SPOTs as an early-warning system for CruiseControl builds.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: October’s Letter from the Game Director
Age of Conan Game Director Craig Morrison addresses the community once more in this latest Letter from the Game Director. This month’s letter focuses on a number of new initiatives Funcom has taken to cultivate the Age of Conan community, the new Recruit-a-Friend Program, the Volunteer Program, the upcoming 1.06 patch cycle, and more!
Martine McCutcheon: My sexy romp
EXCLUSIVE: Shes ruled the soap box, topped the charts and now Martine McCutcheon is back saucier than ever.
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Java development 2.0: Easy EC2
Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.