Dark Messiah of Might & Magic place players in a first person prespective in a Might and Magic style. The game graphics engine is powered by Source Engine, which powered Half-Life 2 too. You will be able to play online with up to 32 players.
This demo covers a tutorial and a single level mission from the game. The demo weighs a hefty 1.38 GB
The system requirements are as follow:
Minimum:
- 2.2 Ghz CPU (AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium)
- 512 MB RAM
- 7 GB Hard Disk Space
- 128 MB Video Card
Recommended:
- 3 Ghz CPU (AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium)
- 1 GB RAM
- 7 GB Hard Disk Space
- 256 MB DirectX 9-capable Video Card
The following mirrors allow you to download this demo.
Blizzard has released version 1.14 for the famous Starcraft. Below is the change log for the new version. This is one of the most popular RTS (Real Time Strategy) game of all times. Starcraft is featured in World Cyber Games for the past few years.
Feature Changes
- European ladder now affiliated with WGTour (http://www.wgtour.com/blizz.php).
See (http://www.battle.net/scladder/) for additional information about the new European ladder.
- Ladder games disabled for all other regions.
- For Top vs. Bottom games, the default chat filter is now ‘Chat To Allies’.
- In-game chat messages now show the speaker’s name in his/her team color.
- Users can now use the mouse wheel to scroll chat and selection boxes in Windows 98 (or later) and Macintosh OS X.
- Screen shots now use a time/date stamp; they are no longer limited to 100.
- Improved version numbering system.
- The high-color application icon from the Macintosh version is now used on PC.
- Small corrections to the Lost Temple and Dire Straits maps.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Hatchery cancellation crash bug.
- Fixed crash that can occur when SCVs are repairing a unit boarding a Dropship.
- Fixed crash when Mac users very quickly cancel connection to Battle.net.
- Fixed a scoring bug that gave Zerg unit points for building cancellation.
- Users can now take screen shots on Macintosh OS X.
- Updated Battle.net account creation information text.
- Logging onto an account closed for a Battle.net Terms of Service violation will now say the account is closed, rather than ‘invalid password’.
- Fixed bug preventing Portuguese StarCraft clients from receiving patches from Battle.net.
Portuguese users must still patch to this level manually, but subsequent patches can be obtained automatically from Battle.net.
- No longer displays control characters in Battle.net’s map description pane.
- Color codes and control codes are no longer allowed in chat messages.
- Fixed a crash in StarEdit when attempting to save modified Blizzard maps.
- Fixed undesired text wrapping in Spanish and Portuguese Battle.net screens.
- Fixed a rare crash in multiplayer games.
Exploits
- Fixed the Nydus Canal cancellation bug that allowed creating a mobile exit.
- Fixed two exploits that allowed players to gain minerals very quickly.
- Fixed exploit with Arbiter that allowed Zerg buildings to become cloaked.
- Fixed exploit that allowed units to kill themselves instantly.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Command Center infestation without a Queen.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Command Center infestation from a distance.
- Fixed exploit that allowed players to float Zerg Drones over obstacles.
- Fixed exploit that allowed worker units to mine at a distance.
- Fixed exploit that allowed Terran buildings to lift off while training units.
- Fixed exploit that allowed SCVs to repair Protoss buildings.
- Fixed exploit that allowed SCVs to detach Larvae from Hatcheries.
- Fixed exploit that allowed morphing Terran and Protoss buildings.
- Fixed exploit that allowed buildings to be stacked on top of each other.
- Playing against illegally named players on Battle.net no longer results in a disconnect game result.
You can download the patch from Blizzard itself or simply connect to Battle.Net and download the patch automatically.
One of the most successful strategy game from Microsoft has just released its 1.08 patch. Below is the change log for this new patch.
Age of Empires III retail patches v1.08 Patch 1.08 - Balance changes, Quick Search and bug fixes
NEW FEATURES
- Quick Search now allows players to determine the Home City tier and Power Rating level of their opponents
- Power Ratings will now decay over time
CLIENT FIXES
- Numerous changes to Civilizations’ special bonuses
- Numerous balance changes
- Fixed an exploit that would refund the Home City shipment after sending mercenaries
- Changed a line of dialogue from the Campaign which was found to be derogatory
- Changing teams on ESO will now unready all players
- When a player clicks to delete a Home City, the default will now be
No NETWORK AND ESO FIXES
- Fixed an issue where Quick Search was not matching people using Power Rating
- Added separators to very large numbers to make them more readable
- Clan page on ESO now properly displays the last online date for clan members
You can download this patch from the following website.
- Ensemble Studios
- GameSpot
- FileForum
The hottest gadget, PlayStation Portable, has a new update to its famous firmware. Sony has just released version 2.80 firmware, with the following features,
[Network]
- Able to download videos and images in [RSS Channel] now.
- You can register devices under [LocationFree Player] using a wireless access point
[Music]
- Able to play AAC files with *.3gp extension
[Setting]
- [Automatic] has been added into [Network Setting] > [Infrastructure Mode] as an option.
[Other]
- Support for use of files stored under [MUSIC], [VIDEO] and [PICTURE] folders at root level has been added.
Check out a more comprehensive update on this new firmware at http://pspupdates.qj.net/
Although new firmware are good for normal usage, but enthusiastics usually do not prefer to have such updates. PSP homebrews has been a hot topic since its release, the ability to utilise fully the function of PSP is the dream of all PSP users. New firmwares does not allow such homebrews to run on PSP.
For more info, check out the above website for more information. PSP rocks!
The famous DotA has released a new version with good amount of changes.
***DotA Allstars 6.36 has been released. Check out this post.***
Below is the change log I quoted from www.dota-allstars.com.
Changelog:
* Added two new neutral creep spots
* New mode -vr (-voterandom, like -ar except you get to vote on which hero combinations are used)
* Game no longer immediately ends when you win, you have time to chat if you want to
* Hero Descriptions now have the movement speeds listed
* New icons for Pugna, Lion, God’s Strength and Omnislash (thx snork, alien_rebirth and gotham from forums)
* Lots of tweaks to the gold bonuses, levels, stats and abilities on neutral creeps.
* Changed the Arthas model with Frostmourne to the one without (forum 69498)
* Boots of Travel and Scroll of Town Portal now share cooldown
* Chaos Knight base damage a little less random
* You can now set the player slots to Computer to reduce the starting gold if you are playing in less than 5v5 (so you don’t have to start with 3500 if you don’t want to)
* Bonus gold is given to the allies of the tower killer (even if creeps kill it)
* Reworked Strygwyr’s Thirst
* New Rampage animation (70915)
* Increased the recipe cost on Hand of Midas as well as the Attack Speed.
* Reworked -lm to give a chance for Scourge to begin the pick process instead of always Sent
* Improved the core game recognition of what is and isn’t a spell (for stuff like essence and CotS)
* Fixed some compatibility issues between -ap and -lm
* Added a minor blood effect when hook hits a unit (63335)
* Increased base damage for Weaver
* New command -hidemsg/unhidemsg as a request from some players that don’t want to see the text spam when heroes die
* Fixed a bug where destroying all the trees around rooftrellen did not reveal him
* Wraith Band recipe cheaper
* Improved the AoE on static Field
* Minor improvement to the AoE on Diffusion Aura
* Repick in -ap or normal mode now lets you pick a new hero instead of randoming it. Cost reduced here since you would need to buy a hero. Repick is unchanged in -ar/-tr
* Restored the old armor bonus on Dragon’s Blood
* Buffed the HP and Mana that Scepter gives
* Reduced Desolator recipe cost
* Buffed Tinker’s movement speed
* Nightstalker strength improved
* Minor improvement to the trees behind to the top left scourge tower
* Reduced the lag on casting epicenter, freezing field and blackhole.
* Reduced mana cost on level 2 and 3 of blackhole to make it a little more worth leveling
* Fixed some minor targeting bugs with illuminate
* Wild Axes now move a bit faster
* Changed the color of Plague Wards
* Fixed many old typos
* Improved Troll Warlord base damage a little
* Slightly buffed Zeus’ str and int per level
* Fixed a bug with Freezing Field and Scepter (thx malle)
* Increased the speed on paralyzing casks a bit
* Improved Jakiro’s attack animation
* Fixed Silencer’s night vision range to that of regular heroes
* Slightly buffed higher levels of Sanity’s Eclipse
* Minor armor buff (usually 1) to most melee heroes
* Fixed being able to Berserker’s Call units out of Chronosphere
* Agility on Manta Style increased a bit
* Perseverance can now be broken up into its components by clicking on it
* Purification icon change (72474)
* Reduced Sunder manacost/cooldown at higher levels
* Increased base Intelligence on Tinker
* Fixed Last Will to not damage its allies if it was denied
* Stout Shield percentage typo (Nareg)
* Fixed various neutral creep minimap glitches
* Fixed an old bug with Venomancer’s Poison Sting that did minor attack speed reduction instead of minor movement speed reduction.
* Fixed Soul Keeper’s gamescore icon (78244)
* Fixed hotkey conflict between Spectral Dagger and Desolate
* Fixed being able to teleport to the invisible -ap vision units with Scroll of Town Portal
* Fixed many tooltips
* Fixed some issues with units not being paused in Chronosphere (like Leoric Reincarnate and Bearform)
* Fixed various neutral creep tooltips (MrX)
* Various other minor cosmetic improvements
Source: www.dota-allstars.com
You can download the map from this link from yousendit or from megaupload or from filefront. Or you can go to www.getdota.com.
