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Blizzard has 1 more card under the sleeve

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When you think that Starcraft II makes gamers around the world waiting in awe, there is more excitement from one of the best game developer around.

Blizzard has currently 3 teams working on the projects, 135 people are working on World of Warcraft, 40 for Starcraft II and another 40 working under “Team 3″. Frank Pearce, founding member and senior vice president of product development for Blizzard revealed that “Team 3 is working on something really awesome.”

With BlizzCon coming in a few weeks’ time, announcements of new gaming development may come by then.

In the meantime, we can only anticipate the possibilities of the new game.

Since the team is made up of 40 members, we cannot expect it to be a MMORPG like World of Warcraft, which need more people in maintaining and developing the game. So World of Starcraft, etc are out.

Diablo II : Lord of Destruction was released in the year 2001 and Warcraft III : Frozen Throne was released in the year 2003. Expansions sound impossible for this 2 games, as they are quite old (but still good).

Diablo III and Warcraft IV might be the next upcoming sequel to their famous gaming series. However we cannot rule out Blizzard might be coming up with new games.

DotA Allstars 6.40 AI

I came across this DotA AI map on the web and I going to share with all of you.

It is the version 6.40 AI, so it is the new one. The author is unknown, so I hope the author can update me if there is a new version of the AI available.

Dota Allstars 6.40 AI

Enjoy it and do comment about it. Cheers!

Warcraft III RoC & FT 1.21 patch released.

It has been a long time since Blizzard released patch for the all-time popular real time strategy game, Warcraft III. On recent days, Defense of the Ancient (DotA) has been a highly popular Warcraft III custom map, or so called mod. I wondering if there will be some bugs and minor problem to DotA when this new patch is in used. So far, it did have some minor glitches for previous patches. Awaiting for the new version of DotA.

This version mainly address problems encounter new classes of computers, namely the Intel-based Apple PC, the dual core PCs. And a new command that allows you to see your frame rate by typing /fps to the chat command. Cool! Check it out guys.

Here is the change log for version 1.21.

FEATURES

- The game now runs natively on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs.
- Player can now view frames per second using the “/fps” chat command.

FIXES

- Fixed a timing problem with the game on PCs with dual-core CPUs.
- Fixed a crash that could occur with the Frost Breath ability.
- Fixed a crash that could happen in multiplayer games.
- Fixed an exploit that could happen in multiplayer games.

Important Note on Patching for Mac Players: The file layout inside the
game folder is changed significantly by Patch 1.21. As a result, in order
to be able to install the Frozen Throne expansion from CD, you must
install Reign of Chaos first, then install Frozen Throne from CD, and then
patch to version 1.21, in that order. If you patch to v1.21 and then
attempt to install Frozen Throne after that, it will not install
correctly.

MAPS

- New maps:
- (2)SecretValley
- (6)BomberCommand
- (4)LostTemple (RoC)
- The 4 Forest Troll Berserkers by the natural expansions now drop Level
2 Permanent instead of Level 2 Charged items
- (4)TurtleRock
- The 4 Ogre Warriors along the outer pathways now drop Level 2
Permanent instead of Level 2 Charged items
- (6)GnollWood
- The 4 Gnoll Brutes by the central Item Shops now drop Level 2
Permanent instead of Level 2 Charged items

You can download the patch by logging on to the Battle.Net or you can download from the links below. I will recommend you to use the Battle.Net, because it is fast and easy.

Warcraft III : RoC 1.21a patch
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Warcraft III : FT 1.21a patch
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