Garena Skin for Friendster now Available

eat news for DotA lovers out there! We just released our third Friendster skin featuring some cool DotA heroes.. Try them now!

Have your Friendster profile sport a cool and personal look! A look that is loud and clear telling everyone in your circle of peers, who you are and where you're from! Use the Garena Skin for Friendster now! We will be releasing more cool Garena Skin Designs for Friendster soon, giving you more choices to choose from!

Add Us Up -http://profiles.friendster.com/mygarena

Credits: Lolcano for designing the first Garena Friendster Skin.

Just follow these 4 easy steps to use the skin:

1) Download the zip file for the code, extract the file and copy the code inside.

Download Skin 1 Code here: skin1.zip (255 Bytes)

Download Skin 2 Code here: skin2.zip (257 Bytes)

Download Skin 3 Code here: skin3.zip (257 Bytes)

2) Log in to your Friendster account and go to "Edit Profile".


3) Paste the code in #1 in the "Describe Who You Want to Meet:" field. (NOTE: If your "Describe Who You Want to Meet:" field has an existing content, paste this code after the last character of the existing content.




4) Click on "Save" after pasting the code. Congratulations! You are now using the Garena Friendster Skin!


REMINDER: You need to remove any existing CSS in used, and revert to default.

If you have used the skin already, post your Friendster profile link here and you may be one of the lucky winners to be getting 1 week FREE premium membership!

Join Garena on Friendster and other popular SNS Networks now!

Expand your circle of peers by getting connected to a global community of fellow gaming enthusiasts!

Apart from making thousands of new friends, you can also enjoy the following:
1) Get the latest Garena news updates and announcements through these SNS networks.
2) Get to participate in special events hosted in these SNS networks and win Garena prizes.
3) Get downloadable freebies uploaded in these SNS networks instantly.
And many more!

Add us up now at the following SNS networks:

Friendster: friendster@mail.garena.com | www.friendster.com/mygarena
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Garena_Home/1374891087
Multiply: multiply@mail.garena.com | mygarena.multiply.com
Myspace: garenamyspace@gmail.com | www.myspace.com/mygarena
Orkut: orkut@mail.garena.com

8th DotA Hero Guide Contest on Garena

Make yourself known as one of the gurus of DotA and get a chance to win great prizes!

Contest Prizes:

Champion: 40 Shells 2 months Premium Membership + 10,000 EXP!
1st Runner-up: 20 Shells 45 days Premium Membership + 8,000 EXP!
2nd Runner-up:10 Shells 1 month Premium Membership + 5,000 EXP!
*All participants who fulfill the basic requirements will be awarded 2,000 EXP

HERO SELECTION:

Participants may create a guide on any of the following:

Hero Guide for Tidehunter
Hero Guide for Sandking
Hero Guide for Earthshaker

Participants are allowed to send more than one entry. Judges will choose which guide has a better chance of winning. If in any case both guides have winning placement, the one with the higher rank will be chosen to qualify. The top winners of each hero will automatically qualify their guides in our very own premium hero guide section.

The organizer of the HGC have decided 3 heroes with great stun skills as the choices for this contest. So, what are you guys waiting for ? Make your choice and go for it..

CONTENT:

Only complete guides will be chosen to qualify in the contest. Entries should have the following requirements to qualify:

Hero Details

-A short introduction about the hero.
-Basic details, description, story behind.
-Stat growth, technical stuff
-Role in the team

Skill Build

-Walk through of your proposed skill placement from levels 1 to 25.
-Explanations and reasons why it was placed that way.
-Alternate build

Item Build

-Proposed items to buy.
-Basic order of buying, from early to late game.
-Alternate and other advisable items during end game.

Strategy

-Basic walk through from early to late game.
-Team play and basic skill techniques

Replay

- At least two replays should be included in your guide, one which is originally yours where the player using the hero or item is the creator of the guide and one where a player from a competitive team is using the specified hero or item in any major tournaments in or out side Garena.
- All replays sent should have been played using DotA Version 6.58b or 6.59 ONLY. The patch would be 1.22 ONLY

Map

- All entries must use Dota Version 6.58b or 6.59 ONLY. Any other maps used will result in disqualification.

Entries that do not have the following requirements will be disqualified. Entries should also be original and self composition. Any form of plagiarism of any vital parts of the guide will result to disqualification. You can add other sections if you want but these are the core content that your guides need to have.

ENTRY SUBMISSION:

Post your guides in the [Strategy Zone] of Dota Allstars Category, put the title in the following format
[HGC8 Entry]Title of your guide.

Deadline for submission is 15th March 2009 [You have 1 month to do the guide].


Click here to go to the entry submission forum


Source: Garena Forum

New Garena Community Exp Gain

Community EXP (Forum EXP) Now Increased for posting on Forum!

GG Forum is better than ever - We have reached milestones in both post per day (Max of 2000 in one day) and post per month (36,000+ post in the month of March, 2008). We would like to thank our active forum members for their participation and contribution in improving GG Gaming Forum. Also Forum Exp is now known as Community EXP.

To show our appreciation to the forum community, we have decided to increase the Community Experience (Forum Exp) effective today (04/14/07)!

-> Each new thread will now be equivalent to 20 Community EXP

-> Each reply will be worth 3 Community EXP

-> Threads that are digested will have additional 30 Community EXP

Now that's more than doubling the EXP in the forum - So let's get active and interact in one of the fastest growing gaming forum around the world!

Inline with our goal on continuously improving the forum, we would like to inform the entire community to avoid spam and other similar content.

Thank You and we hope that you'll have a good time in our forum.

Read the Info Here..

How to get colored name on Garena

•You need to register new id with this name to get colored name in Garena warcraft games.
•Way to write your nick in colours...

Note: You can't see your colored name in Warcraft/Dota game but others do see.





e.g .|c00ff0000Red


Red is .|c00ff00009 (your name)
Green is .c0000ff00(your name)
Blue is .|c000000ff(your name)
Yellow is .|c00ffff00(your name)
Magenta/Bright Purple is .|c00ff00ff(your name)
Deeper purple/violet is .|c00a400ff(your name)
Cyan is .|c0000ffff(your name)
Teal is .|c0000ffca(your name)
Black is .|c00000000(your name)
Medium grey is .|c007c7c7c(your name)
Goldish is .|c00ffbd00(your name)

Play Dota on Garena

Want to play Dota with other players? Install Garena now and enjoy the games.

Steps:

1. Go to www.Garena.com and download the Garena installer.
2. Run the Setup.exe, and install Garena.
3. Now register an account here.
4. Once your done registering, click on this - Should be on your desktop.
5. Now enter your account and password that your previously made and click on "Login".
6. You will see a screen like this , select Warcraft RPG [###] and join any room.
7. Now in the neat the bottom left of your screen click on "Start Game"
8. Now you have to target - X:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Frozen Throne.exe
9. Once that is done exit out of Garena,
10. Now open it up again and join a room, once you done that hit "Start Game" again and Warcraft III should open and you click on Local Area Network (LAN) and just wait for a game to appear. -Note, if you want to scrim or etc, you cant just be in any room, you must be in a room that your team is in.
11. Now how to watch games, click on "Garena TV"
12. Now click the game you want to watch and select "View" and the game will appear in "LAN" on WC3, just double click on the game and it should automatically load it.