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Daily Column [Graciously sponsored this week by Shay's Treehouse.]

Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle writing to you from the wintry splendor of Oslo, Norway, where Cody "Micajah" Bye are reporting on Funcom's Age of Conan community event. Or, that is, we will be once the event kicks off later today. Yesterday was spent marvelling at the highly automated, precision operation that is pouring yourself a cup of convenience store black coffee, dividing by 5.26 krona to learn that, yes, a pint of draft beer really does cost $10, and ogling the Norwegian women. Tights and boots, gentlemen, tights and boots.

Today's Loading... will be a short one, but we may do a special weekend edition of the newsletter if we can get some breaking news live from Oslo cranked out this evening into tomorrow. By way of apology, enjoy part 2 of a special Scandanavian edition of real world news, too strange to be fiction.

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2 new and original MMOG articles today! 156 so far in January! 156 so far this year!

New MMOG Articles At Ten Ton Hammer Today

• Jumpgate Evolution Exclusive Screenshots: Round #1
• Vanguard Poll: Flying Mounts - Horse, Lizard, or Magic Experiment Gone Bad?

Hot Content - Or, what I took a fancy to

1. Jumpgate Evolution Exclusive Screenshots: Round #1
2. Age of Conan Video Q&A at CES 2008, Part 2
3. Anarchy Online Developer Diary #3: Becoming a Game Writer
4. Age of Conan "The Maze" Video Preview
5. Pirates of the Burning Sea - CES Video Q&A with Jess Lebow
6. Gameover Podcast Episode 10 Released - The Search for Number Ten
7. Legends of Norrath CES 2008 Interview
8. Vanguard Thom Terrazas Interview Part 4 - The Riftway System
9. CES: Curt Shilling Interview - [Regular Version], [Premium - Full Length Version]
10. StarGate Worlds: A Post-Trailer Interview With The Team

Real World News (Scandanavian edition, Part 2)

• Stockholm Bomb Squad Examines Humming Package, Reveals Sex Toy
  The packaging did promise an explosive climax
• Alcohol, Feces, Carcasses Fuel "Green" Cars in Sweden
  Now your weekend excesses can fuel your weekday commute.
• 75 Year-Old Swede Claims Worlds Fastest Residential Internet Connection
  Figuring out how to email her grandkids, that's the hard part.

Thanks as always for visiting TenTonHammer.com

- Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle and the Ten Ton Hammer Team