The International DOTA 2 Tournament is the yearly DOTA 2 tournament which is organized by Valve Corporation. Top 16 teams from all around the world will participate in this tournament. According to the latest updates 4 teams from China, Australia, Ukraine, Malaysia are confirmed and 12 more are yet to be decided. The upcoming event is going to be held in Seattle on 31st August to 2nd September. So checkout the related updates and some answers to your questions below.

What is “The International 2012″?
The International 2012 is a Official tournament of DOTA 2 which is organized by Valve corporation. Its the second edition of “The International DOTA 2″ Tournament the first edition of “The International 2011″ was held in Cologne Germany .

Where and when its going to be held?

The International DOTA 2 Tournament is confirmed by Valve and its going to be held on 31st August to 2nd September in Seattle City the venue is PAX Prime, Benaroya Hall.

How to participate in The International 2012?

The participation in “The International” is invitational base and the two teams are already invited who are the finalist of last year “The International” tournament.

“FAQs”

Who won the The International 2011 edition?
Navi won the previous edition of “The International” DOTA 2 tournament.

What is the prize money of The International 2012?
As per the last year’s prize money which was 1.6 Million dollars the Valve corporation has decided to increase the prize pool more than 1.6 million dollars.

How many teams are invited in The International DOTA 2 Tournament?
There will be 16 teams in this tournament which will compete each other two of them who were the previous finalist are already confirmed and the selection method of the rest of the teams will be disclosed within few days.

How can I get the updates of “The International”?

The International will be broadcast for free in multiple languages, and Valve will release information about obtaining tickets in the coming weeks.

Some important points of this announcement:

1.  According to the agreement, Valve will continue to use DOTA commercially, including DOTA 2.
2.  Blizzard will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community.
3.  As mentioned in the above point Blizzard will have a liberty to use player-created maps for Warcraft III and StarCraft II including Dota Allstars.
4.  Blizzard DOTA is going to renamed as Blizzard All-Stars as far as agreement is concerned.

According to Valve president Gabe Newell:
“We’re pleased that we could come to an agreement with Blizzard without drawing things out in a way that would benefit no one. We both want to focus on the things our fans care about, creating and shipping great games for our communities.”

This announcement reflects that the future of Dota Allstars is secured and from now on Dota will be developed and run as it was running before.

Warkey++  Hotkeys for inventory. Warkeys++  is a familiar tool for those who are interacted with DotA or some other strategy based games. Warkeys++ helps you to rearrange your keys without having changes in the game. You can easily determine what spell base you want to choose and there are some other attractive features which will make you gaming experience incredible.

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Warkey++ Version 6.4 Download :

Warkey++  Version 6.4  (Mirror 1)

Warkeys Version 6.3 Download :

Warkeys++ Version 6.3 (Mirror 1)

Warkeys 6.2 Download :

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More Features :

• - Active/disable “hotkey function” hotkey [Home]
• - Active/disable “AI block mouse” hotkey [End]
• - (Alt+[) Hotkey: show ally's hp bar
• - (Alt+]) Hotkey: show enemy’s hp bar
• - (Alt+M) Hotkey: check current state of function
• - (Alt+P) Hotkey: Pause/Resume “game”
• - (Alt+F4) Hotkey: Quit Game

GAMEPLAY

• Enabled Phantom Lancer Phantom Lancer in Captain’s Mode.
• Fixed turn rates for the following heroes: Lifestealer, Alchemist, Clockwerk, Bounty Hunter, Dark Seer, Dazzle, Ancient Apparition, Brewmaster, Chen, Silencer, Lone Druid, Spectre and Spiritbreaker.
• Alchemist Alchemist
• Fixed Unstable Concoction self explosion still stunning you if you are invulnerable.
• Fixed night vision being too small.
• Fixed Unstable Concoction damage being too small.
• Bane Bane
• Fixed being unable to nightmare non-hero units.
• Batrider Batrider
• Fixed Flamebreak to not trigger Sphere.
• Beastmaster Beastmaster
• Fixed Aghanim’s Primal Roar cast range being 50 too short.
• Fixed base damage being slightly too low.
• Brewmaster Brewmaster
• Fixed attack range being 138 instead of 128.
• Fixed critical strike working against wards.
• Fixed base HP regeneration (0.25->0.75).
• Fixed Primal Split’s Wind element being unable to Dispel Sandstorm.
• Clockwerk Clockwerk
• Fixed Power Cogs bounty being too small.
• Fixed Power Cogs knockback speed and distance being too small.
• Fixed Rocket Flare reveal aoe.
• Fixed Power Cogs having very small night vision.
• Crystal Maiden Crystal Maiden
• Fixed Crystal Nova vision.
• Dark Seer Dark Seer
• Fixed Vacuum tree aoe destruction being too big.
• Dragon Knight Dragon Knight
• Fixed very minor inaccuracy on Dragon Form attack range.
• Enigma Enigma
• Fixed Eidolon split attack count incrementing on allied unit attacks.
• Invoker Invoker
• Fixed Chaos Meteor burn damage being a little too low.
• Juggernaut Juggernaut
• Fixed Omnislash selection aoe being slightly too big.
• Lifestealer Lifestealer
• Fixed Feast working against wards.
• Lone Druid Lone Druid
• Fixed base HP regeneration (0.25->0.5).
• Fixed Spirit Bear getting trapped in Power Cogs and Sprout.
• Fixed Entangling Roots working on wards.
• Lycanthrope Lycanthrope
• Fixed Shapeshift speed boost disappearing from other units upon Lycan.
• Fixed other controlled units not getting movement buff if created after Shapeshift was cast.
• Fixed Shapeshift not healing for the amount of bonus HP he gains.
• Morphling Morphling
• Fixed being able to heal under Ice Blast.
• Outworld Destroyer Outworld Destroyer
• Fixed arcane orb doing bonus damage to Warlock illusions.
• Puck Puck
• Fixed attack range.
• Fixed channel time on level 4 Phase Shift.
• Pugna Pugna
• Fixed Life Drain range not improving with Aghanim’s Scepter.
• Riki Riki
• Fixed Blink Strike not guaranteeing a backstab proc.
• Shadow Fiend Shadow Fiend
• Fixed Requiem of Souls travel distance being too small.
• Fixed base HP regeneration (0.25->0.5).
• Slardar Slardar
• Fixed Crush duration on creeps.
• Spirit Breaker Spirit Breaker
• Fixed base HP regeneration (0.25->0.75).
• Fixed base Intelligence.
• Warlock Warlock
• Fixed Golem’s Flaming Fists doing half damage in a bigger aoe.
• Fixed Force Staff cast range (600->800).
• Fixed Bloodstone charge loss from 30 to 33%.
• Fixed Shiva’s Guard blast radius.
• Fixed Manta invulernability duration (0.23->0.1).
• Fixed Tranquil Boots broken movement speed being too low.
• Fixed Shiva’s Guard not granting unobstructed vision during the cast phase.
• Fixed Satyr Hellcaller’s Shockwave doing less damage than intended.
• Fixed Neutral Ursa Warrior Thunder Clap doing 20% slow instead of 25%.
• Fixed Ghost’s frost attack missing 15 bonus damage.
• Fixed minor inaccuracy on dire range upgraded creeps bounty.
• Fixed Ogre Mauler having 3 extra armor.
• Fixed Spirit Bear bounty being too low.
• Fixed Greater Boar unit level.
• Fixed Healing Ward vision radius.
• Fixed Lycan Wolves giving too much XP.
• Fixed Freezing Field ground slow aoe being slightly off.
• Fixed Heaven’s Halberd’s disarm not being dispellable.

UI

• If no stats will be recorded for a match due to someone leaving too early the abandonment message will now reflects this.
• Added an option for simplified controls, where right clicking always moves, and left clicking performs all actions.
• Fixed hero-type units (like Brewmaster’s splits) being able to purchase items directly into the Stash from the Secret Shop.
• Added free camera control for Spectators and Replays (dota_free_camera in the console).
• All events involving player-controlled units now show up in the combat log.
• Added new Director event for when Roshan spawns.

VISUALS

• Fixed smoke of deceit not making some heroes invisible (it was visual only).
• Added healing overhead messages to Dazzle and Omni

BOTS

• Fixed bug that would cause bots to clump at the center of map rather than roaming to gank a target.
• Fixed bug that would cause bots to run out of the fountain prematurely sometimes rather than healing up.
• Bots should now only buy TP scrolls when at the home base or side shops, and will want to buy a TP scroll if they don’t have one in their inventory.
• Bots will now only buyback after the laning phase is done.
• Vengeful Spirit bot will now use Nether Swap to interrupt channels.
• Bots will now forget whether a hero is an illusions or not when they lose sight of it.
• Bots will now properly disable themselves for team-balance even if the opposing player disconnects before hero selection.
• Made bots doing something else more responsive to Push ping requests.
• Made bots more wary about trying to farm lanes with enemies potentially nearby.
• Made Razor a carry for now to help him get selected more.
• On Easy, bots will no longer use Force Staff, Orchid, or Phase Boots.
• On Easy, bots will no longer preferentially attack real heroes rather than illusions
• Reworked how Roshan desire is computed, it’s now done on a per-team basis rather than per-hero.
• Fixed bug where bots wouldn’t buy back once they’d run out of items to buy.
• Fixed bug where Earthshaker bot’s desire to Enchant Totem would somtimes override his desire to Echo Slam.
• Fixed bug that would cause Tidehunter bot to occassionally use Ravage on just creeps.
• Bots that are healing in the fountain will no longer run out to meet their courier.

Update 2

• Fixed Crystal Nova AoE radius.
• Fixed bug where randoming in SD or RD could result in getting a hero not available to you.
• Fixed crash when loading the map again.
• Fixed bug in replays not playing back correctly.

Update 3

• Fixed one case of the broken chat bug.
• Fixed PL illusions who are too far away from generating fake projectiles.
• Fixed some PL illusions having a broken timer circle.

Description: This Warcraft 3 TFT map is the bug fix version of the DotA v6.74c AI 1.3 map that came earlier.
Filesize: 7.03MB
Release date: 2012-04-23
Language: English
For Warcraft v1.24e & v1.26a

File Download:

DotA v6.74c AI 1.3b.w3x (mirror 1)

Version Logs:

1. Attempt-fix: Nevermore`s Requiem of Souls no damage
2. Fixed: Magi keep Unrefined Fireblast after dropping Aghanim`s
3. Fixed: Techies don’t Detonate after having Scepter
4. Fixed: Techies walking through creeps’ barrage to put mine
5. Fixed: BoT used to nearby units
6. Attempt-fix: AI spells against corpses
7. Fixed: Extra vision over secret shops fixed
8. New debug command: -dbg [Player ID]. Use to filter all messages by player ID. This will also immediately clear all screen messages and display all past record from corresponding player (visible via Single Player or Replay in Log). Max 50 records.
9. Fixed: AI Item duplication in -pm
10. Fixed: AI buying more than 1 detector item.
11. Fixed: AI teleporting to nearby units.
12. Fixed: AI building more than 6 luxuries
13. Fixed: AI leaving BoT in base
14. Fixed: Visage’s Aghanim not recognized as priority 100 (in further development, all new Aghanim will be recognized automatically)
15. Fixed: AI dropping items which can change state (e.g. Heart, Dagger, Tranquil Boots, Linken, BKB, Bottle, Thread, Basilus, etc.)
16. Fixed: Pipe being used randomly
17. Fixed: Meepo clones using BoT
18. Tweaked: Item builds by Green
19. Added: dodge mech against Sprout
20. Fixed: Venge’s Nether Swap targetting creeps
21. Fixed: Fixed Scourge AI going to forbidden lanes specified by -nm -nt -nb
22. Fixed: AI ganking enemies in forbidden lanes.
23. Fixed: non-working Linken Sphere.
24. Fixed: final scoreboard icons on player who doesn’t select hero.
25. Fixed: AI not using Dragon Tail. New skillbuild for DK.
26. Fixed: teleporation-style battle assist to nearby allies.
27. Added: anti-item-dupe mech
28. Attempt: to prevent invisible heroes from breaking invisibility when retreating.
29. Added: Refraction to dodge incoming spells.
30. Fixed: item system: item charges not replenished properly, anti-dupe potential problem with Bear.
31. Replaced: Destroyer’s Jango with Force Staff.
32. Minor bugfixes on item system.
33. Minor tweak on ganking behaviour.
34. Minor tweak on Storm’s ulti mechanism.
35. Pulled AI fountain waypoint backward (nearer to fountain).
36. Fixed: Gem/Ward/Dust bug.
37. Fixed: dupe bugs for Player 1 and Player 6 in -cm
38. Tweak: leftmost and rightmost AI movement before leaving base in -cm.
39. Fixed: disabled -swap after first item bought. Before, -swap was disabled when first creep wave spawned and human player could swap with AI already bought items. Also a minor fix to the official code… the setting time function: time is set now according to first_creep_wave_spawned boolean, and not the swap_timer_expired boolean.(last minute fix)

Cyanide studios have released a short update for their game, Blood Bowl – Legendary Edition 2.0.1.4 patch. This update fixes a small network error when using Throw Team Mate also it fixes replays filesize which were previously using high amount of HDD space.You can now update your game to the new patch.

Blood Bowl – Legendary Edition v2.0.1.4 Patch Notes:

- Fixed a random network synchronization failure when using Throw Team-Mate.
- Fixed a possible Turnover when using Wizard in opponent Turn.
- Fixed players scale.
- Fixed abnormal replays size.

Blood Bowl – Legendary Edition 2.0.1.4 Patch Download:

bble-update-2-0-1-4.exe (55.40 MB)

Instructions:

1. Click the patch download link above.
2. Save bble-update-2-0-1-4.exe application file on the hard disk.
3. Once download done, run bble-update-2-0-1-4.exe and follow the instructions.

If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 and you cannot install the update:
- Right mouse click bble-update-2-0-1-4.exe application file and click Run as administrator.

Description: Garena Master v94.01 for Garena Client and Garena Messenger.
Filesize: 3.71MB
Release date: 2012-05-08
Language: English

Version Change Logs:

- Fixed Hero Lines

- Fixed Right click to deny

Garena Master v94.01 Download:

Garena Master v94.01.rar (mirror 1)

Description: DotA 6.74c AI 1.3 is the modified version of IceFrog’s DotA mod which contains computer controlled opponents (bots) to play with.
Filesize: 7.03MB
Release date: 2012-04-02
Language: English
For Warcraft v1.24e & v1.26a

File Download:

DotA v6.74c AI 1.3.w3x (mirror 1)

Version Logs:

• All new Item system. The new items system tries to mimic human behavior. Builds are being built by stages: starting, core, luxury stage. After core, AI picks up random luxury items… more variations.
• Added AI support for all new 4 heroes

1. - Dragonus, Skywrath Mage
2. - Rizzrak, Goblin Shredder
3. - Xin, Ember Spirit
4. - Tresdin, Legion Commander

Description: DotA is the most popular Warcraft 3 custom map series played worldwide.
Filesize: 7.83MB
MD5 checksum: 3b6f046950ecac0babeba8412b00b7a8
Release date: 2012-03-21
Language: English
For Warcraft v1.24e & v1.26a

File Download:

DotA v6.74c.w3x (mirror 1)

Version Change Logs:

* Fixed Flamebreak not functioning properly with creeps

Guild Wars 2 Minimum System Requirements – PC:

OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800 or ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 equivalent.
Hard Disk: 25 GB space
High Speed Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

Guild Wars 2 Recommended System Requirements:

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core2Duo E7500 2.93 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better.
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 4000 series

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