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Continue reading Producer & game director for Age of Conan resigns from FunCom

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Let the Flames Begin...

Mythic Vice president and "Warhammer Online" Lead; Mark Jacobs recently spoke to Tracey John about games such as Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures and Hellgate London which was posted at Mtv.com. Jacobs discusses Hellgate London and why he wants to see Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures succeed, but stating he feels the game should have been delayed.

With Jacobs having played the game and having read fan postings on both the “Warhammer” and “Age of Conan” forums, he thought that Funcom should have delayed the game. “I think that the greatest mistake that they made was not listening and not learning from what had gone before,” Jacobs said, referring to the launch issues of Funcom’s “Anarchy Online” in 2001. “When they looked at ['Age of Conan'] when they were ready to launch, I can’t imagine how they didn’t see the issues that other people saw. According to their annual reports, they had plenty of money. They should’ve looked at it and said, ‘We need to delay this game.’ There are probably reasons I’m not aware of… but I think that’s their biggest sin.”

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Dan Caselden and Gabriel Landau of Independent Security Evaluators recently checked into Funcom games Anarchy Online and Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures. The evaluators discovered some rather disturbing exploits within the games. One of which could even allow a hacker to take control of the targets computer. Fortunately, ndependent Security Evaluators contacted Funcom and the problems have since been patched to prevent any future issues.

8/28/08 - Funcom released patches for both games today. Both vulnerabilities were fixed in Anarchy Online. In Age of Conan, the directory traversal vulnerability has been fixed, but the buffer overflow remains. We do not believe that the buffer overflow alone currently poses a serious risk to players, but we recommend that Funcom fix it promptly so it cannot be used in any future hybrid attacks. In the meantime, we suggest that players exercise caution when downloading custom game scripts from third parties.

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Prompt patching closes another exploit door

Dan Caselden and Gabriel Landau of Independent Security Evaluators recently checked into the games of Funcom, Anarchy Online and Age of Conan. Unfortunately, they found some pretty large vulnerabilities, some that would even allow a hacker to take over the victim's computer. Before revealing these exploits to the public, Independent Security Evaluators contacted Funcom to inform them of the problem they found. Prompt patching commenced:

8/28/08 - Funcom released patches for both games today. Both vulnerabilities were fixed in Anarchy Online. In Age of Conan, the directory traversal vulnerability has been fixed, but the buffer overflow remains. We do not believe that the buffer overflow alone currently poses a serious risk to players, but we recommend that Funcom fix it promptly so it cannot be used in any future hybrid attacks. In the meantime, we suggest that players exercise caution when downloading custom game scripts from third parties.

For more information about how the exploit works, and how to protect yourself against it, please check here.

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Filed under: Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, Events, real-world, New titles, News items, The Secret World

American readers: are you going to Dragon*Con this Labor Day weekend? Funcom (developer of Anarchy Online, Age of Conan, and The Secret World) is! Its specific plans have been laid out at the Age of Conan website.

The company will have its own booth, of course, which will be open from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Friday through Sunday, and from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday. More interestingly, though, Funcom will be hosting what it calls the "FunCon Event" in the Sheraton Capital Ballroom on Friday at 10:00 PM. The party will feature music by DJ Tarryk and visitors from the teams of all three Funcom projects.

The following day, Funcom will present its two currently-released games -- Anarchy Online at 10:00 AM and Age of Conan at 7:00 PM. Somewhere amidst all these proceedings, fans will have the opportunity to win posters, inflatable swords, t-shirts, lanyards, custom PC cases, and "one special customized Anarchy Online PC." That's cool. It's probably not cool enough to go out of your way to go to Dragon*Con for, but if you're already gonna be there you might as well stop by. Check out Massively's complete Dragon*Con schedule for other events and booths to hit up, too.

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• Friday 1:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m
• Saturday 10:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.
• Sunday 10:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.
• Monday 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

This year s event is one not to miss as everyone is invited to join us Friday at 10pm at the Sheraton Capital Ballroom! We will have several ballrooms adjoined together with the best in lighting and sound as DJ Tarryk will be spinning the musical entertainment for the night. Along with the entertainment we will also have many Funcom attendees from Age of Conan, Anarchy Onlineand The Secret World dropping by throughout the night to help make this FunCon one to remember!

• 7 - 8pm : Sheraton Capital Ballroom (Age of Conan Presentation)
• 10 - 11am : Sheraton Athens Room (Anarchy Presentation)

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