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The Lord of the Ring Online: Shadows of Angmar has begun its beta testing in Europe and North America, according to Gamespot.com.
The Europe signup page is available http://www.lotro-europe.com/beta-signup.php and the North America signup is available at http://lotro.turbine.com/betasignup.
More news to available if any. Watch out for it.
For those who are still in dreamland, it’s time to go to the Outland. Burning Crusade is here and the new version of WoW is here too.
Version 2.0.5, the third patch that was released in the weeks before the release of Burning Crusade.
Here is the change log for version 2.0.5.
- Increased the maximum number of realms that can be listed in the Realm List.
- Updated the Terms of Use.
- Created an option to disable UI Acceleration for users of select video cards
experiencing graphical corruption of the User Interface. To use this option,
enter the following line to the Config.wtf file, located in the WTF
subfolder of the game:
Set UIFaster “x”
Where x equals:
0 – This turns off all UI acceleration
1 – For Internal Use Only - DO NOT USE!
2 – Enables partial UI acceleration only.
3 – Enables all UI acceleration.
Example:
Set UIFaster “2”
Note: For users experiencing graphical corruption of the User Interface,
it is recommended to try option 2 in order to correct the problem. If
this does not solve the issue, then use option 0 to disable all UI
Acceleration.
This patch focuses mainly on the UI (User Interface) of the game.
Version 2.0.4, which was released days before version 2.0.5, addresses different issues.
Change log for version 2.0.4.
- Fixed a bug where flags in Arathi Basin could be captured at extremely long
distances.
- Fixed a bug where players who had set dungeons to Heroic difficulty level
previous to patch 2.0.3 could no longer enter instances.
- Fixed a bug that was causing multiple LUA errors in the German and French
battlegrounds.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the promotion of raid members to yield
incorrect results.
- Fixed a bug where NPC faction changes were not properly affecting quest-
giver exclamation marks.
- Fixed a bug where changing party options would briefly cause erroneous
information to be displayed in the party options menu.
You can download the version 2.0.5 incremental patch (from version 2.0.3) from the following web sites.
The Crusade has begun.
Yes, the much anticipated expansion to the world’s most populated massive multi-player online role playing game, the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade has officially released throughout the entire world. You can activate Burning Crusade on your account by visiting the World of Warcraft community site.
And let’s get on to Level 61. Hooray!
IceFrog has released version 6.40! Come and get it, right here, right now.
Here is the change log for version 6.40.
* Reworked Neutral Creep abilities and mechanics to better balance them out
* Improved Leshrac’s base str
* Reduced Chen and THD movement speeds
* Mangus’s Shockwave cooldown reduced from 12 to 11/10/9/8
* Increased Shadow Fiend’s movement speed
* Improved Berserker’s Call AOE by 25
* Increased base armor on Harbinger
* Lowered initial wait time before drafting starts in -rd
* Improved Presence of the Dark Lord AOE
* Lowered level 1 Hawk ms and vision
* Removed entangle from level 1-3 of Spirit Bear
* Reduced Sanity’s Eclipse cooldown from 200 to 160
* Fixed Radiance Effect in center of map when Spirit Bear dies with it
* Improved HP on Spiderlings
* Lowered Siege units armor
* Increased Razor’s base damage a bit
* Reduced Watcher’s cooldown
* Fixed some bugs with Shallow Grave not workling properly on units that morph
* Sent and Scourge are now colored in -rd text display
* Lowered Hawk HP and gave them bounty
* Fixed a rare but serious bug with Geomancer leveling up
* Satanic life steal increased from 23% to 25%
* Increased Eye of Skadi slow duration from 2 to 3 seconds when used by melee heroes
* Restored normal hero name display
* Fixed roshan exploit with geomancer
* Reworked Shallow Grave a bit, it has a duration now
* You now see a decline message when someone refuses to swaphero
* Fixed an old bug with level 3 Elder Form attacking gem
* Fixed a few typos
You can download the map from getdota.com or from FileFront.
6 days before the opening of the dark portal that allows you, to enter the mysterious Outland, for more adventures in the
world of Warcraft.
Version 2.0.3 is the last patch before the storm arrives for Burning Crusade. Burning Crusade is the first expansion of the world’s most popular and most populated MMORPG, World of Warcraft. This new patch will open up new skills, quests, races, professions, monsters and items for the expansion.
In order to enjoy the features of the expansion, you need the expansion. Else, you can forget about levelling up to level 70 and the 2 new races, Draenei and Blood Mage. So you just need to buy the expansion for once, no additional fee, except your normal monthly subscription.
Let’s get our energy ready to burn for the Burning Crusade!
You can download the patch from FileFront or Fileplanet. You can download through the Blizzard Downloader too.
EA Sports has released patch for the FIFA Manager 07, a football management game under the FIFA series. FIFA Manager 07, is a competitor to the popular Football Manager series as well as the Championship Manager series.
The patch is available for 2 different versions, one is for the game you purchased and downloaded from the EA web site, and other one is for the DVD version which you bought off the shelf from the game shops available near you.
Here is the change log for the patch
Fixed a number of minor bugs
Digital Download patch:
DVD patch:
Please note that the patches are English version, for other languages you can proceed to FileFront for the patches too.
