DotA Allstars 6.40 released

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.

World of Warcraft v2.0.3 patch released

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.

FIFA Manager 07 patch released

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

• Removed rare crash on saving game
• Removed rare crash on opening scout reports
• Removed logic flaws and unfinished sequences in text mode
• Reduced number of fan chants in text mode
• Yellow cards do not have so much influence on rating
• Better rating for defenders
• Player rating does not change after substitutions
• Corrected minutes played after red card in player career
• Fixed rare crash due to ball physics in 3D match
• Correct display of energy in 3D match
• Correct undo of substitutions in 3D match
• Improved game speed “Weekly Progress”
• Training camps can now be booked over unscheduled qualification rounds
• Congrats screen after promotion from lower leagues
• No easy transfer after low second offer anymore
• Correct indication of matches for reserve team in stats details
• Removed problems with free-agents
• Corrected minutes without goals (conceded)
• Youth team is displayed in news messages
• Players who do not play are not shown in The Duel
• Corrected some problems with team colours in the menu system
• Removed duplicate sponsors
• Line graph in Home screen now functions correctly
• Opinion of the board now takes into account reserve teams
• No teams with rating of 0 in Found a Club mode
• Functional contract clause on offer from higher league
• Correct recovery after an injury
• Players can now gain Hero status during game
• Removed irregular news messages after player ban
• Duration of pause after goals in teletext is now uniform
• Fixed some cup draw comments
• Loading bar is not stuck at ¾ anymore
• Fixed some comments in manager biography
• Updated player salaries
• Fixed some colour problems in text mode
• Not possible to give orders to opponent players anymore
• Corrected some faulty messages on Internet page
• Fixed some minor bugs in private life
• Mail problem with children going to wrong school

Fixed a number of minor bugs

• Various old typos in English and German
• Changed four probabilities for actions in text mode (own goals, referee)
• Some issues with the personal records on the career screen
• Corrected some design and content issues in the statistics (missing tooltips, alignment)

Digital Download patch:

Gamespot
FileFront

DVD patch:

Gamespot
FileFront

Please note that the patches are English version, for other languages you can proceed to FileFront for the patches too.

DotA Allstars 6.39b released

IceFrog has released the new map to version 6.39. The version 6.39b fix a serious issue with regards to Mac users. There is some minor changes to the mod, and here is the change log.

6.39b
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* Fixed a very serious Mac bug
* Reduced Shallow Grave cooldown from 300/150/75 to 300/200/100
* Fixed Lycan’s icon on scoreboard
* Fixed a bug with the last nerf to shadow word (it wasn’t actually nerfedas i said it was in the code, thx malle)
* Changed Infernal HP from 900/1400/1900 to 900/1200/1500

As usual you can download the new map from getdota.com or you can download from FileFront.

World of Warcraft : Burning Crusade gone gold

Yes, 2 more weeks to go to the release of the hated (for some) and the beloved and much anticipated Burning Crusade, the latest expansion to World of Warcraft. And Burning Crusade has gone gold, according to Blizzard Poster at the WoW Forum, source.

Here is the preview to the new features for Burning Crusade

• Level cap increases to 70.
• 2 new races, Draenei (Alliance) and Blood Elves (Horde)
• Arena-based PvP Ladder System; Improved PvP Honor System
• New Continent: Outland
• New Profession : Jewelcrafting; item socketing
• New flying mounts for new races and Outland
• New Dungeons
• New spells and skills
• New mobs and quests

World of Warcraft : Burning Crusade is set to release on 16 January 2007, after a delay.

World of Warcraft v2.0.3 is set to be the new patch for Burning Crusade. The patch is already available for download.

Let’s hope the Taiwan fibres will be fixed asap, so that the Asians WoWers can enjoy Burning Crusade when it comes online!

DotA Allstars 6.39 released

The arrival of the new year comes with the arrival of a new version of the massively popular Warcraft III : Frozen Throne mod, DotA Allstars version 6.39. The new version comes with new heroes and new mode.

Here is the change log for the new version.

6.39 Changelog
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• Listed all the cooldowns for items and abilities
• Added -rd (-randomdraft, similar to the style of play in a few inhouse leagues)
• Added two new Scourge heroes
• Added new functionality to replay files for leagues to more easily calculate and process game data
• Added -showdeny/-hidedeny
• Added new host commands “-weather snow”, “-weather rain” and for everyone “-weather off” (if it is turned off, it can’t be turned on again, to prevent spam and abuses)
• -ma now shows hero level next to the name
• Improved first middle Scourge tower area
• Added a new endgame scoreboard to replace the inaccurate one that Warcraft 3 generates
• Improved death text presentation
• Added floating text to show you all the gold you get (including bonuses, not just the 100) from hero kills as well as tower kills. Please note that there has been no change to the gold you get, it is just being displayed as an added effect now.
• Improved some ward vision areas for the Scourge team (thx Wedge[p])
• Sentinel and Scourge hero kills now share the gold with the team instead of it being lost
• Rewrote a lot of internals coding to allow for cleaner AI version implementation (in near future, the bot capability will be part of the regular map, useable in the every release)
• Added Snowman after Roshan (just a temp for the season)
• Added hero icons to the multiboard
• Fixed the creep blocking issues on the left Sent side
• Added an observer scoreboard display for better information when watching live games
• Improved AI on the siege units. They spawn every 7 waves now instead of every 6
• Reduced Overpower and Enrage cooldowns
• Reduced Time Lapse mana cost at higher levels
• Paralyzing Casks now does a little more damage to creeps
• Upgraded ghouls now have a bigger model like the treants do when upgraded
• Alchemist movement speed from 290 to 300
• Increased Spirit Bear’s Base Attack Time from 1.75/1.6/1.45/1.3 to 1.75/1.65/1.55/1.45
• Improved AOE on Aftershock by 30
• Chaos damage now does 40% damage to fortified (down from 50%)
• You now have more time to repick (120 from 60)
• Added -disablehelp support for sprout
• Unstable Concoction now deals damage
• Added Lucifer to Aghanim’s Scepter
• Increased Troll Warlord’s movement speed by 5
• Reduced mana cost and slightly increase AOE on Shadowraze
• Lowered Warlock’s movement speed by 10
• Gnoll Assassin creep is slightly stronger and give a little more bounty as well
• Improved Lightning Storm a bit
• Undid small part of the previous Dark Ritual nerf (was nerfed from 45 second cooldown to 60/55/50/45 before, and now to 55/50/45/40)
• Improved Kraken Shell leveling slightly
• Cannot use Aphotic Shield on Doomed hero anymore
• Nerfed Shadow Word casting range, increase cooldown and lowered damage per second
• Shukuchi deals more damage per level
• Geminate Attack level 4 cooldown down from 4 seconds to 3.5 seconds
• Fixed a graphical glitch with the spawn direction of Elune’s Arrow
• Reduced Strygwyr’s Thirst HP detection from 50% to 40%
• Improved the Liberated Souls with Ignis Fatuus Scepter Upgrade
• Increased Rain of Chaos cooldown
• Lowered Viper’s base damage a little
• Spin Web regeneration now improves with levels
• Lowered Neutral Taskmaster’s HP/Armor/Movespeed
• Implemented hero descriptions by Deathknight6034(Bloodseeker,Ryali,DK), Aconite_Vyper(Sniper), KingReaper(Lancer), Volcove(Keeper of the Light), Bowstaff(Omniknight), SteveGarbage(Furion), theAlice(Panda,Vol’Jin), prawnstar(Antimage), skipperme(Chen), redrooster(Fletcher), Tikiboi(Raigor).
• Fixed Decrepify tooltip
• Reworked status buff placements on Shadow Word, Mjolnir and Fatal Bonds icon to display properly on Illusions
• Fixed a big exploit reported by UKI-TZAR
• Storm Seeker no longer draws Roshan out
• Fixed typo on Bristleback damage autospray (did not buff him, just a typo fix)
• Fixed Mjolnir tooltip
• New animation for Bottle (thx Ro-Coco)
• Fixed last 2 towers not giving gold to team
• Necromancer now properly grows in size
• Fixed the initial delay on Luna’s Eclipse
• Fixed Clinkz’s Windwalk buff tooltip
• Cannot repick if you don’t have full hp and mana (to prevent some abuses)
• Changed Elune’s Arrow animation
• Fixed a bug with spiderlings’ poison reducing attack speed instead of movement speed (thx ZerielDRK)
• Fixed a few bugs on level 4 abilities with Witchcraft
• Fixed POTM endgame icon
• Many other countless tooltip fixes and improvements

You can download the new map from getdota.com or you can download from FileFront directly.