“Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) based on the world and works of acclaimed author Robert E. Howard.  In Age of Conan, players enter Hyboria with thousands of their friends and enemies to live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King Conan. “ 

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is about to be opened to the mere mortals that didn’t have the chance to pre-order it. People that pre-ordered it had the chance to start playing earlier and also had a nice extra added to their account, the most popular being a nice mount.

Tomorrow, the 23th will be the official release of the game. Some people have already started playing it and they say it’s simply fabulous. One of the greatest features in this game is the ability characters have to do finishing moves like cutting heads out

It is a very good competitor to World of Warcraft. More than 1 million people have pre-ordered the game. Let’s see if it meets the expectations

You can visit the official homepage here: http://www.ageofconan.com/

Quick SQL tip that I find useful. If you want just the date part of a datetime value, the following neat expression yields it:

SELECT DATEADD(d, 0, DATEDIFF(d, 0, datetime_column))

This is useful for comparing dates. Alternative approaches include casting to string, and comparing the date parts (day, month, year) separately. The context determines which is most appropriate.

Gently provided by SK.

Did you enjoy playing Gears of War on your Xbox 360? Yes? Than you will be happy to know that Gears of War 2 is being developed and that the release date is around November this year.

Just watch the trailer here: (skip to 1 minute if you only want to view the gameplay part)

Some time ago I was quite interested in programming languages but that interest wore off because I found a bit hard to get a job on that area. Of course, things have changed and now it’s quite easy to get a job on that specific area. You can even choose what language you want to use. But now, and because I’m part of a Development team, although I’m not developing anything, the “bug” has returned and I feel like experimenting with new technologies out there.

I’ve been reading a bit about WPF and XAML. It seems like this is the future, or at least that’s what most people are saying. The first time I heard someone talking about that my question was “what the hell is that?”. Simply put XAML is very similar to XML and it stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language. WPF stands for Windows Presentation Foundation (complicated name). I am not going to explain what those things are and what you can do about it. The purpose of this article is to share, with someone also interested in learning a bit more about it (like me), a website that contains a nice bunch of tutorials that I found very interesting.

If someone knows about any interesting reading about these subjects drop me a line. Don’t forget I’m learning. Also need to spend some time looking at C# or VB. It’s been a long time without look at it.

You can check these in here: http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/a-guided-tour-of-wpf/

Michael Donnelly, the creator of Glider, a World of Warcraft ‘bot’ application, is being sued by Blizzard.

This software allows users to be away from the computer while the software plays the game for them. It is quite useful when doing all the boring bits in the game, like grinding for gold or other resources. But it is illegal. Glider is against the Terms of Service as provided by Blizzard for World of Warcraft, so you can try it at your own risk. And yes I can provide you with the link to their website

Check the whole article on the BBC website.

Glider website: http://www.mmoglider.com/.