Blizzard has released the WoW : Burning Crusade Cinematics, 2 months before the release of the much anticipated release of the most popular MMORPG on planet Earth now. With more than 5 millions players worldwide, WoW is considered as the most successful MMORPG, leading Guild Wars and Final Fantasy XI.
You can watch the cinematics from the WoW community site, you can also download the cinematic from there too. It is a HD version and weighs 45MB.
Here is the video. Watch it!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT9MTP_Tie0]
The cinematic features the 2 new races, Blood Elves on the Horde side and Draenei on the Alliance side. Besides these 2 races, Orcs are featured too. One orc is shot by Hunters and failed to sustain the injury, however the Blood Mage casted a spell on the orc. Last but not least, the appearance of Lord Illidan at the end of the cinematic.
Burning Crusade, to be release on 26 January 2007, is the a must-have for the WoW fans out there.
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos has a new patch. The new patch features bug fixes, tweaks and 2 new features.
Here is the changelog for this version 1.6.
New Features
- Added Flanking and Charge feedback.
- Added indication in the Multiplayer Lobby on list of players of which ones
are in a game.
Fixes
- Fixed several crash, out of sync and other bugs during replays.
- Fixed a bug where the Credits did not load after completing a Campaign.
- Fixed issues in the Tutorial where triggers were broken.
- Fixed a crash in the Multiplayer lobby.
- Fixed a freeze that occured after clicking on the Cancel button in the Create
Army menu after playing a Ladder game.
- Fixed a crash that occured when you attempted to move Gutterunners out of
bounds via their Tunnel ability.
- Fixed minor user interface bugs.
- Music volume balance.
- Fixed a bug where players attempting to join a multiplayer game already
started remained attempting indefinitely.
- Fixed a bug where the Move Speed value was displayed incorrectly in the
game.
- Fixed a bug where some army bonuses were not displayed.
- Changed the orientation of the tower cannons on the Hightower multiplayer
map.
- Changed the location of the rally point of the reinforcement camp in the
center of the Village in Squeeze map.
General Balance Changes
- Ranged units hit heroes more likely.
- Heroes now suffer additional damage when attacked from behind by melee
units.
- Heroes can escape harder from pursuing units.
- Fixed a bug which caused heroes to level up faster than intended.
- Armor upgrade prices for units generally lowered.
- Level upgrade cost for artillery units increased.
Skill Balance Changes
The Empire
- Prayers of Sigmar - Increases the lifetime of Strength of Sigmar by 2 sec
(instead of 1).
- Strength of Sigmar - Lifetime increased from 10 seconds to 15.
- Strength of Sigmar - Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 45.
- Strength of Sigmar - Power cost reduced from 300 to 150.
- Fireball - Base chance to hit for area component increased from 10 to 11.
- Fireball - Bonus chance to hit by skill ranks for area component lowered from
5% to 2.2%.
- Fireball - Tooltip corrected. Bonus chance to hit to target is 10%.
- Master of Aqshy - Chance to hit reduced from 5% to 1.4% for every rank of the
skill.
- Conflagration of Doom - Cooldown and power cost increased from 45 seconds and
225 power to 60 seconds and 300 power.
- conflagration of Doom - Inner area damage reduced from 3 to 2 hit points.
- Conflagration of Doom - Inner area base chance to hit increased from 30% to
35%.
- Conflagration of Doom - Outer area base chance to hit increased from 10% to
15%.
- Conflagration of Doom - Outer area bonus chance to hit decreased from 5% to
3%.
- Herald of the Storm - Cooldown and power cost decreased from 30 seconds and
150 power to 20 seconds and 100 power.
- Herald of the Storm - Bonus chance to hit reduced from 10% to 8%.
- Herald of the Storm - Now jumps up to 5 targets at the base rank of the
skill.
- Earthlord - Chance to hit increased from 0.2% per skill level to 0.4%.
Hordes of Chaos
- Wind of Death - Cooldown and power cost increased from 50 seconds and 250
power to 55 seconds and 275 power.
- Lord of Shadow - Fixed skill to the tooltip. This will cause an overall 19%
area radius decrease to the current state of the skill.
- Infernal Storm - Chance to hit decreased from 5% to 4% per skill level.
- Sumptuous Pestilence - Cooldown and power increased from 30 seconds and 150
power to 40 seconds and 200 power.
Skaven
- Warpbombs - Cooldown and power cost reduced from 50 seconds and 250 power to
40 seconds and 200 power.
- Warpbombs - Area reduced from 3.0 to 2.5.
- Warpstone Shower - Damage reduced from 2 to 1.
- Whirling Doom - Cooldown and power cost decreased from 60 seconds and 300
power to 35 seconds and 175 power.
- Whirling Doom - Chance to hit reduced from 40% to 15%.
- Whirling Doom - Chance to hit upgrade reduced from 8% to 3% per level.
High Elves
- Asuryan’s Chosen - Cooldown and power cost reduced from 50 seconds and 250
power to 40 seconds and 200 power.
- Asuryan’s Chosen - Base number of wisps reduced from 7 to 5.
- Asuryan’s Chosen - Duration increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Asuryan’s Chosen - Base chance to hit increased from 5% to 10%.
- Wrath of Khaine - Damage to target increased from 1 to 2.
- Wrath of Khaine - The based skill already included the +50% chance to hit to
the target. This has been corrected to the tooltip.
- Wrath of Khaine - Added 1% bonus per skill level to the chance to hit of the
area component of the spell.
- Master of Hoeth - Magic resistance reduced is changed from 2 per skill level
to 1.
- Flames of the Phoenix - Cooldown and power cost increased from 50 seconds and
250 power to 60 seconds and 300 power.
Orcs and Goblins
- Brain Bursta - Cooldown and power cost increased from 20 seconds and 100
power to 35 seconds and 175 power.
- Brain Bursta - Base chance to hit reduced from 15% to 10%.
- Brain Bursta - Bonus chance to hit reduced from 3% per level to 2%.
- Fists of Gork - Cooldown and power cost increased from 50 seconds and 250
power to 60 seconds and 300 power.
- Fists of Gork - Base number of fists increased from 7 to 10.
- Buzzin Swarm - Morale damage reduced from 50 to 25 and bonus per level
reduced from 10 to 5.
Item Changes
- Fixed function of damage reflection of Armor of Retribution.
- Magical infusion potions’ price increased to 150-250-350 gold (minor-.
- Power Stones’ price increased to 250-500-750 gold.
- The cooldown of scrolls increased from 30 seconds to 60.
- Elixir of Invigoration is on a 10 minutes cooldown.
- Potion of Fortitude price increased to 400 gold.
You can download the patch from the following locations.
Filefront
Fileplanet
Relic has released version 1.40 patch for Company of Heroes. This patch is expected to release soon after 1.30 patch in order to fix a tank trap bug for version 1.30.
Below is the changelog for version 1.40.
General Fixes
* Both Ranked and Custom games now support random starting locations.
* The in-game server status URL now points to http://www.relicrank.com
* Fixed a bug pertaining to unranked matches counting as Ranked matches.
* New performance and lag indicators have been added to the Online UI.
* A new loading screen has been added which incorporates player names, ranks and loading bars.
Gameplay
* Light Vehicles can no longer be blocked by Allied Barbed Wire and Sand Bags
* Light and Medium Vehicles can no longer crush Axis Tank Traps.
* Fixed bug where Allied*AT Guns could destroy Axis Flak 88s in a single registered hit, regardless of the Flak 88’s health.
* Fixed issue where unfinished defensive structures had 100% health. Also,*Now all unfinished defensive structures take much more damage from all weapons.
* Fixed bug where the Axis Halftrack Flammenwerfer upgrade cost fuel. This was an attribute data error.
* Allied and Axis Snipers can once again kill each other with single registered hits.
* Improved Sherman Crocodile damage against infantry units not in cover
You can download the patch from the following website.
Incremental Update (1.30 to 1.40)
FileFront
Incremental Update (1.20 to 1.40)
Fileplanet
Full Patch
Fileplanet
Filefront

For all the WoWers out there, log on to your WoW account now to download the latest patch from Blizzard. The patch is 492 MB in size.
As the change log is a VERY VERY long list, I will list out the GENERAL changes here only.
Changelog
General
- All players will have their talent points reimbursed and will have access to new talents throughout their trees; this includes the 41-point talents. Several new abilities have also been added for all classes.
- All pets will now receive a percentage of their master’s armor, spell damage, spell resistances, attack power, and stamina.
- Low-level spells cast by high-level players will receive smaller bonuses from +healing and +spell damage.
- HoTs, DoTs, and channeled spells have been re-balanced to receive a more appropriate (higher) percentage of +spell damage and +healing.
- HoTs from different sources will now stack (i.e. multiple druids can cast the Rejuvenation spell on 1 target).
- New item property “Resilience” has been introduced. Resilience reduces your chance to be the victim of a critical strike, and reduces the amount of damage critical strikes do to you.
- Weapon Skill now does the following:
- Weapon skill will no longer reduce the percentage damage lost due to glancing.
- The player will gain 0.1% to their critical strike rating per weapon skill against monsters above their level.
- When casting a buff on a low level target, the appropriate rank of the buff will automatically be applied.
- In PvP, Crowd Control effects will last no longer than 12 seconds instead of the full duration, with a chance of a heartbeat resist.
- Players will no longer lose faction when under the influence of “Mind Control” or the Gnomish Mind Control Cap.
- Several improvements have been made to the Macintosh client, including support for Multi-Threaded OpenGL on Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.8 or higher.
Summary
- Revamped PvP Honour System
- New Talents available; 41 talent points.
- Looking for Group Tool
- Arena Skirmishes
You can read the entire patch notes here
For more information on the new interface, Looking For Group, you can visit the Burning Crusade website for more details.
You can check out the latest patch note at the World of Warcraft Patch Note section.
Download Link (Incremental Update fron 1.12.x to 2.0.1)
Filefront
Fileplanet
The new Halo 3 trailer is released online by the game developer, at Xbox Live Marketplace. The trailer is on the game page of Halo 3. You need to enter your birthday in order to watch the video. I think this is due to the ESRB rating on the game.
here is the video! Enjoy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhrkjKUB7U]
Registration for Halo 3 beta is now on, at Halo Official Website. Currently the beta is for North American gamers only. The European Halo 3 beta will start next Spring.
These are the requirements for Halo 3 beta:
- An Xbox 360 Pro console or an Xbox 360 Core console with hard drive
- A Xbox Live Gold subscription
- A Microsoft. NET Passport account with a Xbox Live gamertag tagged to it