Dota 2 Wraith Night Updated, Ranked Matchmaking Released

Update includes -

• Wraith Night Game Mode
• Legion Commander w/ Arcana Upgrade
• Recruit Your Friends Feature
• Party Spectate Feature
• Ranked Matchmaking
• Improved Battle Point Boosters
• New Cosmetics

User Interface

• Added option to display the Minimap on the right side of the screen. Some HUD skins may have issues in this mode
• The drafter is now indicated when spectating a CM or CD game.
• Fixed a case where shop items would get stuck on the screen after dragging
• Play a sound when a teammates puts an item into your hero's inventory. eg when giving a Tango charge
• Fixed a case where health and mana bars would be invisible at the beginning of a match
• Select All Other Units hotkey now also selects other units like Plague and Serpent Wards
• Added captions in Korean.

Community

• You now get an abandon if one of your party members abandons. A party abandon on its own cannot put you into low priority.
• Added message indicating that players must complete a low-priority match with players on both sides to decrement their low-priority penalty count
• Adjusted the amount of XP required for Dota Profile levels 2 thru 7 (your in-profile XP bar might be a little off until you finish a game)
• Game modes are now unlocked as you progress through levels

6.79c Gameplay Update

• Hand of Midas recipe cost increased from 1400 to 1550
• Ancestral Spirit vision reduced from 600 to 450
• Ancestral Spirit damage reduced from 80/120/160/200 to 60/100/140/180
• Plague Wards night vision reduced from 1200 to 800
• Venomancer base movement speed reduced from 290 to 285
• Fixed Power Cogs knockback aoe being too big
• Fixed Whirling Death not restoring enough HP after the debuff wears off
• Necronomicon night vision from 1300/1400/1500 to 800
• Necronomicon gold bounty increased from 100 to 100/125/150 (per unit)
• Magnetic Grip cast range reduced from 1400 to 1100
• Boulder Smash silence duration reduced from 5 to 3.5/4/4.5/5
• Boulder Smash unit knockback range rescaled from 800 to 500/600/700/800
• Fixed Stone Remnant counting as a spell (for purposes of Curse of the Silent, Magic Stick, etc)
• Dueling units cannot be disarmed or Force Staffed away
• Visage movement speed reduced from 295 to 290
• Crystal Maiden base Intelligence reduced from 21 to 19 (same base damage as before)
• Added Slark to CM
• Added Huskar in CM

Visuals

• Orchid - Added fx for damage pop at the end of orchid, and additional effects if unit dies to orchid damage.
• Fixed projected texture and screenshake render types that were drawing to the portrait also effecting the world, fixes bug with Enigma darkness rendering from his portrait in the world.
• Fixed some Bounty Hunter items which weren't properly showing his Jinada effects.

Economy

• Players now receive a series of presents as they proceed through the early levels of the game. Each present contains some free items to use.
• Automatically unlock and select item styles that are unlocked by inscribed gems reaching a certain value
• Fixed armory preview of items not showing the correct style

Workshop

• Heroes updated or newly enabled on the workshop - Earth Spirit, Ember Spirit, Storm Spirit, Gyrocopter, Pudge

Showcase View

• Hide Pause panel in Showcase View.
• Fixed a bug where dragging could select another follow unit.

Patch Size: 524.3mb

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The Elder Scrolls Online - War in Cyrodiil Trailer

"In our latest trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online," states the description, "witness the Alliance War in action as Tamriel's three alliances rally their forces in the heart of Cyrodiil. Are you prepared to face your enemies, conquer their fortifications, and claim the Ruby Throne?" You know what? I'm not sure that I am. Four million people are, though. That's how many applied to the beta, according to the TESO blog's

 release announcement post.

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EU LCS Transfer Window - The Alliance Enters LoL, New Lemondogs Roster.

LoL LCS is not any smaller than a sport now, so i guess with me calling it transfer window wont be an problem, anyway lets move to the topic...

The New LCS season is about the begin and all new roster changes hit this week real hard, as old CLG.EU fan and Ex EG, i will miss Froggen,Krepo,YPete,Wickd and Snoopeh playing in same team, however i would say that last 2 LCS split didn't go too well for the team, the weak players were clearly visible for the fans, however i would like to wish them a great future in whichever team they go in, for entertaining us all through season 2 till now.

With this, the Alliance E-sport Organisation enters League of Legends, very well-known Alliance who the TI3 Dota 2 Championship finally enter League of legends.

In meanwhile Lemondogs revealed their new Line-up,  i always liked the old lemondogs play-style in previous LCS split, i hope this new line-up lives upto the expectation on the LD fans.

The Alliance's roster is as follows:

• Wickd - Top
• Shook - Jungler
• Froggen - Mid
• Tabzz - AD
• Kazmitch - Support

The Lemondog's roster is as follows:

• Myw - Top
• ImSoFresh - Jungler
• ShLaYa - Mid
• TFS Crazycaps - AD
• TFS Zeriouz - Support

The new EG NA roster is as follows:

• Innox - Top
• Snoopeh - Jungler
• Pobelter - Mid
• Yellowpete - AD
• Krepo - Support

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NSA and GCHQ have been surveilling World of Warcraft

Once, in my more politically active university days, I wrote "flip the flipping Prime Minister" on my MySpace page. As a result, I'm resigned to the fact that I will be ceaselessly monitored by the full force of my government's intelligence services. The less dangerously subversive among you might be somewhat more surprised to learn how far those surveillance tendrils are spreading. According to reports co-published between The Guardian, The New York Times and ProPublica, intelligence gathering has spread to online worlds, with spies having 'infiltrated' World of Warcraft and Second Life.

According to documents disclosed by Edward Snowden, both the US's NSA and the UK's GCHQ created accounts, recruited informers and gathered data in MMOs, and through the apparently more heavily monitored Xbox Live. According to a top secret document from 2008, they saw these spaces as a possible "target-rich communication network," with the potential to give terrorists and other criminal elements "a way to hide in plain sight." Presumably there were also worried about the threat of global boar genocide.

The surveillance was wide-spread enough that the agencies needed a "deconfliction" group, to ensure operatives weren't accidentally monitoring each other, and maybe to organise the intra-departmental raids. Despite all this, the documents provide no examples of any counter-terrorism successes from these actions. That either suggests that terrorists aren't using MMOs as a method of communication, or that they simply think that WoW is too full of carebears.

On Blizzard's part, a spokesperson told the NYT that they were unaware of any surveillance. "If it was, it would have been done without our knowledge or permission," they said.

It's a fascinating insight into the workings, fears and, to some degree, paranoia of these agencies. Given the abundance of communication that typifies these games and services, it's no real surprise that agencies dedicated to the analysis of data would gravitate towards them. This is a still-unfolding story that will eventually need to form part of the wider discussion about the role of counter-terrorism, and the level to which privacy should be an expectation of a democratic society. Of course, as a guy who writes about PC games, I'm going to make jokes instead.

Source:Blue's News.PCgamer

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The Elder Scrolls Online Updates

New updates on The Elder Scrolls online to be released through out this week, The elder scrolls online is the most anticipated MMO of the year, expected to release in 2014.

Look out for:

• New Trailer featuring PVP
• Developer Question of the Weel
• Creating ESO
• New Concept Art
• Ask Us Anything
• Q&As

Be sure to check DC-Portal for more updates.

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