Tag: game

  • Heroes of Newerth: Patch 0.1.39 Released

    Heroes of Newerth has released patch 0.1.39 that brings in 2 new heroes (I’ve updated my HoN/DotA equivalents post appropriately)! Wretched Hag Equivalent of the Queen of Pain in DotA Succubus Equivalent of the Bane Elemental in DotA For those interested, the full changeset is as follows: Version 0.1.39 ————– General: – Added PSR and…

  • JamLegend – Rock Band Online…and Social

    [[innerindex]] Wow. Its all I could say when Adam sent me an invite to JamLegend – a Guitar Hero-esque game that is a pleasant mix of playability, art, and social interaction. I wasn’t expecting much when I got the invite, but as soon as I played through my first song, I was blown away. The…

  • Diablo 3 Officially Announced!

    Blizzard has had a splash screen that changed daily for the past 5 days, today was its final day and I was extremely surprised to see that it revealed what has long been rumored…Diablo 3! This is exciting news! The graphical announcement looks freaking awesome and I look forward to the link on the announcement…

  • StarCraft II Announced

    Cinematic Trailer Note: YouTube doesn’t do the videos much justice as the quality is lacking. To see the videos in all their glory, check the StarCraft II website I became as giddy as a school girl when I found out that Blizzard had announced the much rumored and anticipated StarCraft II! As of now, while…

  • Dota 6.43b Released!

    DotA has released version 6.43b! Download it here or here. Here’s the changelog: 6.43b Changelog: ================= Fixed some big performance problems lower end machines were having Fixed some rare bugs that caused heroes to not revive Fixed -swaphero, neutral creep spawn time and initial gold in -xl 6.43 Changelog: ================ Added new mode -xl(Extended League…

  • Ultimate Web 2.0 Collaborative Game: Eat Poop U Cat

    Via Ajaxian a few days ago, I was re-introduced to a great party game that I have played with pen and paper a couple times in my life. The game results in off the wall drawing and serious laughs and it has found it’s way to the web in a collaborative game of sweet humorous…

  • DotA Version 6.42 Released!

    The new version of DotA has been released! You can download it here or here. Here is he changelog: ==[Heroes]== Centaur Warchief -> Changed Return from 60/30 melee/range to 50/50 Obsidian Destroyer -> Improved cast animation a little Tormented Soul -> Pulse Nova no longer triggers Essence Aura Shadow Fiend -> Reduced Shadowraze AOE Axe…

  • Settlers of Catan: Online & Free

    I have a blast playing Euro Games. By far my favorite Euro game is Settlers of Catan. I was introduced to this awesome game by a few of my cousins that used to live nearby. Sadly, they’ve graduated high school and have moved away leaving my Catan player base generally below par. To counter-act this…

  • Settlers of Catan

    I’m a fan of Settlers of Catan. The game is ballsy and tons of fun…as a matter of fact, I played and triumphed last night :) Anyways, for those of you out there that haven’t a clue what the game is about, here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia: The players in the game represent the eponymous…

  • WoW UI Mod: FuBar

    When I played World of Warcraft before my hiatus, TitanPanel was all the rage. What did it do? Well, it put this sexy little bar at the top of your UI with a lot of useful information that would otherwise have taken up a large area on the screen with the default UI. Titan Panel…

  • DotA 6.40 Released!

    Surprisingly, a new version of DotA has been released! You can get it here or here. Here’s the changelog: 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…

  • WoW UI Mod: MetaHud

    MetaHud is an addon that adds a HUD to your UI, showing all the information normally displayed by the Player and Target frames and more. This is a derivative of Drathal’s HUD with some added features that are pretty useful…some of the excess stuff has been removed. Here are the features: Health/Mana Bars colour levels.…

  • WoW UI Mod: Cartographer

    Because I’ve re-introduced myself to World of Warcraft, I’ve also re-introduced myself to modifying (modding) the game interface! As time progresses, I’ll feature mods that I find super useful. First off: Cartographer. Cartographer is a modular, lightweight, and efficient framework for manipulation of the world map. It is based on Ace2 and other libraries of…

  • Warcraft III: Age of Myths

    I’m a huge fan of DotA…Warcraft III AoS maps are excellent LAN/Battle.net games that should be played by every Warcraft RTS fan at least once. Recently the group of guys that I play DotA on a periodic basis with decided to try out a new tower defense map. (which I have available for download here)…

  • F3ll0wsh1p of teh R1ng

    I stumbled on to this Fellowship of the Rings in gamer form. Funny stuff, although I think I like If WW2 Was Fought By Gamers better :) Its still funny stuff. [At Bilbo’s 111th Birthday] Merry: “Omg, I pwn” Pippin: “Sif, I pwn” **Rocket goes off Gandalf: “Pwned!” Bilbo: “This = shiz, bai foos” Bilbo…