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Microsoft Quadruples its Xbox 360 Warranty

Posted in Microsoft, Online, Promotions, Warranty, Xbox 360 by ubersoldat on December 25th, 2006.

According to Gamespot, Microsoft has recently extended its warranty from a mere 90 days to 1 year for the Xbox 360. Plus, it’s retroactive, meaning that this warranty covers any Xbox purchased up to a year ago. Microsoft has changed its warranty length simply to catch up to the standards of Sony and Nintendo, both of whom offer the one-year warranty on their next-gen consoles. Additionally, Microsoft will extend your warranty another 90 days if you register your Xbox 360.

Get DotA Allstars v6.38b Download w/AI!

Posted in DotA, Official, Online, PC Games, Warcraft III by ubersoldat on November 15th, 2006.

With a lot of new tweaks in place, including a new hero and 4 new recipe items, DotA Allstars 6.38 and DotA Allstars 6.38b are available for download. You can download the beta version here. DotA 6.38b with AI version 1.93 is also now available for download here. The changelog is as follows:

6.38b
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Fixed a bunch of bugs from the last version

6.38
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* 4 New Recipe items
* 1 New Hero
* Added -reverse (-rv) mode
* Every 6 waves, a glaive thrower/meat wagon comes out with the creeps

* Bottle with Rune now returns a Full Bottle after being used instead of an Empty Bottle
* Reduced mana cost on Earthshock
* Improved how Vendetta levels a little
* Increased str/level on Ogre Magi
* Slightly improved leveling of Eyes In The Forest
* Faceless Void base damage increased a bit
* Buffed maximum Watchers
* Desolator damage increased from 50 to 60
* Slightly improved the range on Shockwave
* Hyperstone from 2450 to 2300
* Weaver attack range from 400 to 425
* Wraith recipe from 150 to 125 gold
* Increased Shadow Word cooldown
* Increased mana cost on Dual Breath

* Added an ability to disassemble certain items in the circle of power
* Map preview is now colored
* Added new SA Perm Invis icon by Axidos
* Improved mana regen on Bottle
* Melee heroes get denied less xp than range heroes do
* WTF Mode no longer requires voting
* Fixed the -ar -random exploit (again!)
* Fixed Vendetta not listing the movement speed it gave before (10%)
* Fixed a bug with 2 daggers on disallowed heroes in order to keep 1
* Tower regeneration reduced
* Fixed a minor bug that would sometimes cause the level up animation to not play
* Improved the Wrath of Nature icon based on snork’s suggestion
* Added disablehelp/enablehelp for Astral Imprisonment
* Roshan now drops Cheese!
* Added a set of single player only commands to help people in their hero tests
* Various tooltip fixes
* Replaced “Upkeep” text with the version number
* Tango buying cooldown set to the same as the rest of the items
* Fixed various other minor bugs and typos

FIFA Demo Now Available

Posted in Demo, Online, Reviews, Xbox 360 by ubersoldat on October 6th, 2006.

The latest demo to grace Xbox Live is the latest installment of the FIFA series: FIFA ‘07. According to IGN, FIFA 07 ”throws you into the rollercoaster ride of a football season, [where you must] employ real world tactics, make realistic decisions, and think like a player in order to win matches.” And with a score of 8.1 from GameSpot, FIFA 07 is far from shabby– so go get the demo!

DotA 6.37 Quintuple Kill - Clan pV

Posted in Online, PC Games, Videos, Warcraft III by ubersoldat on September 28th, 2006.

G-Frce-Elite of Clan pV gets an amazing quintuple kill with the Witch Doctor. I’ve never seen anything like it! The quality of this video could be a lot better, but it’s still amazing! Enjoy!

DotA 6.37 Quintuple Kill - Clan pV -

Get DotA v6.37 Download Here!

Posted in Blizzard, DotA, Official, Online, PC Games, Warcraft III by ubersoldat on September 28th, 2006.

With more tweaks, including WTF mode becoming vote-only now, DotA 6.37 has been officially released. You can download is here. Now all that we have to wait for is DotA 6.37b or DotA 6.37 AI. The change-log is as follows:

6.37
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* Fixed a big exploit with waveform
* Medusa’s Purge now deals 600 damage to summoned units, instead of instantly killing them
* Rebalanced Alchemist
* Reduced the Kobold Endurance Aura from 17% ms to 15% ms
* Hand of Midas IAS from 35% to 30%
* Cyclone on creeps from 20 to 10 seconds
* Reduced Primal Roar cooldown and Call of the Wild manacost
* Treads from +60 to +65 ms and from +30% ias to +35%
* Land Mines can now be properly seen on minimap
* WTF mode now requires voting
* Added a better cancel icon for Pulse Nova
* Increased Enchantress’s Intelligence per level
* Fixed a bug with -ar and -random that allowed you to get two heroes