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[b]Community Manager Drysc has announced that there will be no scheduled maintenance this Tuesday, as part of Blizzard's efforts to reduce the amount of time realms are down for weekly realm maintenance.[/b] In the coming weeks, Blizzard will be testing the effects of a live maintenance, where the regular maintenance tasks are run during a realm's off peak hours. This Tuesday's lack of a scheduled maintenance is part of this test. As Drysc elaborated, "The various hardware upgrades and retrofits we_ Read more »

[b]Today was the opening day of the DotA League Season 3, held at the newly renovated Hougang Festival Market.[/b] [center][url=http://www.gamesync.net/node/74][img]http://www.gamesync.net/system/files/images/2006-12-24_rgdl301.thumbnail.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.gamesync.net/node/75][img]http://www.gamesync.net/system/files/images/2006-12-24_rgdl302.thumbnail.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.gamesync.net/node/78][img]http://www.gamesync.net/system/files/images/2006-12-24_rgdl305.thumbnail.jpg[/img][/url][/center] Mr. Teo Ser Luck, Minister of Parliment for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC … Read more »

[b][url=http://www.voyagecenturyonline.com/]Voyage Century Online[/url], a nautical themed MMORPG, was launched yesterday by [url=http://www.skyunion.com/]Internet Gaming Gate[/url][/b] Voyage Century Online is a free to play (F2P) MMORPG, with it's tagline, "Forever Free!" proudly stating the fact. It also claims to be "the first 3D Nautical Online Game in history". There are provisions for trading, PvP, guild wars and the like as well. Alpha testers for the game generally had positive feedback about the game. Jon~solo said, "The way the game is set up with trading and commerce and … Read more »

[b]Gaming.RP has revealed that it will be organizing two gaming competitions, the Intel Gaming Cup and the 3xE Gaming Competition, at the upcoming Republic Polytechnic Open House.[/b] The 3xE Gaming Competition will be held on the 13th to 14th of January 2007 and must be secondary school, ITE students and students waiting for their "O" level results. It will be a 16-team tournament for both Counter-Strike 1.6 and DotA Allstars. Each team can be a maximum of 6 players, consisting of 5 players plus 1 reserve. Interestingly, the top prize has only 5 PlayStation Portables (PSP). An … Read more »

The registration dateline for Season 3 of the Rapture Gaming DotA League has been extended to today. Although no time was specifically mentioned, it can be assumed that the dateline is at 6pm, as DotaSG [url=http://www.dotasg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=525]mentions[/url] that you can "check back by friday 6pm for the most updated team reporting time". The tentative match schedules and reporting times have also been released and can be viewed [url=http://www.rapturegaming.com/dota3_schedule.html]here[/url]. Also, gamers who have signed up after 20th Dec 2006 will not be entitled to the … Read more »

Welcome to the first ever Warcraft Tuesday! Well actually it's already Wednesday now, but forgive me, I only hit upon this idea late on Tuesday night and couldn't rush it out by then. Anyway, Warcraft Tuesday aims to bring all the important and interesting news in Blizzard's Warcraft universe and franchise over the past week to our readers in one summarized update. Do post your feedback, comments and suggestions about Warcraft Tuesday either in the comments section or in the Read more »

As you may or may not know, the live realms are down now for the maintenance that will update the game to version 2.0. Among various game changing mechanics, class and talent changes, one of the changes with the most impact is the new scripting changes. What this means is that many of our favourite mods will no longer work in 2.0. Indeed, if you try to load your 1.12 addons into the 2.0 client, you'll simply get "incompatible" and the addon will not be loaded (You can do some trickery to get it to load, more on that later). Some of the more prominent causaulties include Decursive and the … Read more »

Han has created a machinina music video for Tupac Shakur's Brenda's Got A Baby, a song that tells the story of an unwed mother who is driven to having to abandon her newborn baby. Han is part of SpeakUp Productions, the machinima production group that created the widely seen machinima, The Importance of Being Elite. The Importance of Being Elite was a commentary on … Read more »

[b]Asiasoft has indicated that they will be opening a fourth world tomorrow, as well as implementing patch 0.36. The maintenance period is expected to last from 0930HRS (+8 GMT) to 1330HRS (+8 GMT) on Thursday, 30th of November 2006.[/b] There will be an exclusive Trio Bandana event as well as special 2X time slots for Delphinus. There will be special 2X time slots for all the worlds as well during the festive season. Finally, there will be a cash shop update as well as fixing of reported bugs. Click on read more to view the patch notes. Read more »

[b]Private Studio is hosting an AuditionSEA tournament as part of the festivals at its official launch on Saturday, 2nd December 2006 at PC Bunk. All participants will receive a Private Studio goodies bag and will stand a chance to win exclusive lucky draw prizes.[/b] Private Studio is a union of private clubs, or guilds, in AuditionSEA and was founded by LordSaSa in October 2006. At the moment [url=http://www.ohanatown.org/]Ohana[/url], [url=http://forums.asiasoft.net/thread.asp?qid=896623]L_ Read more »