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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! Those of you with plans, have a safe and fun filled day with family and friends... those that don't... well... have fun by yourself!

Hi guys!

On Thursday December the 8th at 12:30PM CST we'll be taking the site off line for a maintenance window. During this time the website and is related services will be offline. We expect the downtime to last for less than two hours.

Thank you for your patience during this inconvenience.

UPDATE 1:30 PM CST: The maintenance has been completed.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that a new category has been added.

At this moment we don't have an icon for it, but it exists so you can go forth and use it! :D

Enjoy!

Hello everyone! Patch 4.3 is out today. The ToC for this patch is:

## ToC: 40300

One of the big UI changes is that divide by 0 no longer works. Specifically, Blizzard's Lua fork no longer silently handles division by zero; it throws a Lua error now.

Have fun hacking away at your addons and I hope 4.3 goes smoothly for you all!

Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate it, enjoy the time with your friends and families, and be safe on Black Friday. Enjoy!

Introducing the Curse $15,000 Skyrim Challenge!

Love the Elder Scrolls series and can’t wait for Skyrim?  We do and we’re looking for mod authors to help us in making creative, useful, and imaginative mods to play with after the game launches!  With the new skyrimforge.com, unleash your creativity with loads of development tools meant to streamline your mod-sharing process.

The first 35 uploaded Skyrim mods that meet our approval guidelines in each of the four main categories, will earn some phat loot to line the pockets of their authors!

Mods must be uploaded to skyrimforge.com by December 15th, and meet all criteria established by Curse moderators.

The categories and money rewards are as follows:

That’s a total of 140 mods that can potentially earn some cash!  Want to enter more than one mod?  No problem!

But wait...We’re also going to give an additional $3,000 to the author who creates the best mod, uploaded between now and December 15th, and voted the winner by Curse staff!

On December 17th, we’ll announce the grand prize winner and highlight their mod to the community as a thanks for all their hard work and dedication!

For full challenge terms of service, visit this link.

Hello everybody!

It's BlizzCon 2011 time! This means that a lot of the staff/moderators are at it. If we don't get back to you right away with an issue please understand that it's because we are not in the office/able to and that we will get back to you as soon as possible!

Have a great day!

6th Annual UI Author Dinner

It's that time of year again when we get together and have a great meal and hang out before Blizzcon kicks in full swing. This year we're looking at Thursday night around 9pm and will be within walking distance of the convention. For the last few years, we (Curse and WowInterface) have had the pleasure of picking up the tab for the evening, and we're glad to do so again this year.

If you'd like to attend please sign up over here.

Curse's 2011 Blizzcon Party

On Friday, October 21st from 8 PM to 2 AM on the 2nd floor of the Hilton hotel next to the Anaheim Convention Center, Curse will be celebrating BlizzCon with fellow gamers and VIPs. The party will feature an open bar, swag, live DJ, giveaways courtesy of our amazing sponsors, Logitech and Intel, and attendees from all over the gaming industry.

There will be several VIP’s in attendance including Felicia Day and other actors from the cast of The Guild, several of your favorite WoW community members, Vloggers, VCasters, and pro-players.

If you're an author, going to be at Blizzcon, and would like to attend (and haven't already got an invite) send me a PM with your name and email address.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!

6th Annual UI Author Dinner

It's that time of year again when we get together and have a great meal and hang out before Blizzcon kicks in full swing. This year we're looking at Thursday night around 9pm and will be within walking distance of the convention. For the last few years, we (Curse and WowInterface) have had the pleasure of picking up the tab for the evening, and we're glad to do so again this year.

If you'd like to attend please sign up over here.

Curse's 2011 Blizzcon Party

On Friday, October 21st from 8 PM to 2 AM on the 2nd floor of the Hilton hotel next to the Anaheim Convention Center, Curse will be celebrating BlizzCon with fellow gamers and VIPs. The party will feature an open bar, swag, live DJ, giveaways courtesy of our amazing sponsors, Logitech and Intel, and attendees from all over the gaming industry.

There will be several VIP’s in attendance including Felicia Day and other actors from the cast of The Guild, several of your favorite WoW community members, Vloggers, VCasters, and pro-players.

If you're an author, going to be at Blizzcon, and would like to attend (and haven't already got an invite) send me a PM with your name and email address.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!

Since WoW will soon be available for Brazil, we have added ptBR (Brazilian Portuguese) to the Localization app.

We're currently in the process of moving knowledge base articles and wiki's around. This means some links won't work until everything is transitioned.

Thank you for your patience.

We're going to be bringing the repositories down temporarily for a migration. I'd expect the downtime to be less than an hour and will start within the next 10.

Update: We started a few mins late, but we're doing the final catchup sync now. We'll be done shortly.

Update: We're waiting on the final sync to finish, then we'll be turning services back on. Sorry for the delay.

Update: We're complete and back online, please report any issues with any repositories.

Hi guys,

We've posted a story on curse.com explaining what happened in the last few days to cause this downtime, and what we're doing to prevent it ever happening again.

Murphy's law being what it is, luck would have it that our SSL certificates for CurseForge and WowAce expired just as the downtime bagan, on June 23rd. Please rest assured there's no security breach, they are simply certificates that expired at about the worst possible time. We will be updating them on Monday, June 27th.

Update June 27th: The SSL certificates have now been updated.

Though some AddOn authors may have already seen this information, due to the number of authors which were not prepared for a similar change in the 4.1 patch, here are links to information for the 4.2 changes for the COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED event:

Base Parameters.
RaidFlag.

Age of Empires is back and we've got beta keys! This time it's online and with your friends. You can fight friends, co-op, and even build persistent cities.

Closed Beta for Age of Empires Online has been going for a while now, and Gas Powered Games is now ready to open the flood gates exclusively through Curse. Curse had had a chance to check it out at CES 2011 earlier this year, so be sure to check out our coverage.

We're stoked to be able to give you guys this opportunity to check out the game. This is a guaranteed spot in the closed beta, so be sure to get your key as soon as you can.

Initially, the giveaway is going to be limited to Curse Premium members. We'll be opening it up once premium users have had a chance to get ahold of their beta keys.

Details

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• Curse Premium giveaway: April 19, 2011 @ 9AM PDT to April 20, 2011 @ 9AM PDT
  
• General giveaway: April 20, 2011 @ 9AM PDT to when we run out of keys
  
• When you can play: Right away after redeeming your code
  
• How to play: See the instructions on the beta key giveaway page
  

There's no NDA for this phase of the beta, so feel free to contribute to AOE Wiki if you find information in the game that it's lacking.

Finally, here is the trailer from GamesCon 2010 for you guys to check out.

In honor of this stupendous occasion, we at the WowAce headquarters decided to get a theme commemorating it all ready to go for you all.

We're so glad that we can celebrate this day with you all.

If you're a stickler and want to switch back to the old theme, feel free to go to this URL: http://www.wowace.com/themes/textured-wowace/switch/

The automated process which marked out-of-date projects as inactive after 90 days hasn't functioned in a very long time. It has been fixed, but with the un-intended side-effect of marking as inactive every World of Warcraft project which was released during patch 4.0.1 and 4.0.3 - clearly projects that are still compatible (mostly) and relevant during patch 4.0.6.

Kaelten has undertaken the effort of correcting this, and all erroneously affected projects should have their statuses restored.

Keep in mind that when patch 4.1.x hits the live servers that all projects released under the 4.0.x versions will be eligible for the 90-day inactivity rule.

Ackis Edit: If you're having trouble please take a look at: http://kb.curseforge.com/policy/abandoned-and-inactive-projects/#w-reclaiming-your-abandoned-or-inactive-project

Sorry for the mistake guys/gals.

Some of you may have seen this added last week. In the footer of the site, there's now something that says "Revision XXXX". Well folks, that's a recent changes log. You can see this by going to kb:Recent Changes. Now you can track what's been fixed or added to the site. Feel free to check it out!

Hey everyone, just wanted to wish you all a safe and Happy New Years as we go into 2011. There's some really cool stuff planned for the next year, so just be patient as it all unfolds, ;).

Haaaaaappy New Years!

Hello everybody! On behalf of everyone here at CurseForge and WowAce I wanted to wish you a very safe and merry Christmas!

And to Torhal, Happy Birthday today buddy!

Hopefully you all have your shopping done so you can sit around and relax today and enjoy the holidays.

Merry Christmas everyone!

The Shattering has happened. Now it's time to level up in the third expansion for WoW. I hope everyone has a fun release night!!!

We will continue to approve projects as soon as possible.

Hopefully the game servers will stay up. :D

As some of you might not know, WoW is apparently getting a new expansion tonight at midnight.

I know, I was surprised myself.

So, have a fun time grinding out those 5 new levels, rolling your new goblin or worgen, or picking WoW back up after abandoning it months ago.

I'm going to be rolling a new Goblin Warrior and playing him until I fall asleep roughly two days later. Feel free to post a comment telling us how you're going to celebrate the Cataclysm.

To al of our US users, and for those who may celebrate it otherwise.

On behalf of the site, our moderators and corporate overlords I wish you all Happy Thanksgiving. Be safe as you travel and enjoy the merriment.

Taken from the news report here

We're aware of an issue where random users will not be able to connect to either the Curse Client, Curse.com, and/or other Curse sites. This is a temporary problem that should go away by tomorrow, the 18th.

We do apologize for any inconveniences this has caused, but please do not submit client support tickets related to connection issues until after tomorrow, Thursday the 18th.

Thank you, The Curse Support Team

This does not seem to be affecting CurseForge, WowAce or SC2Mapster.

Stealing this from Merah:

You may need to clean your cache with: ipconfig /flushdns

If it does not help switch to Google's public DNS, they have new records.

>nslookup curse.com
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    curse.com
Address:  68.64.47.204

>nslookup www.curse.com
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.curse.com
Address:  68.64.47.204

dns1: 8.8.8.8
dns2: 8.8.4.4

Good day everyone.

There have been some issues with the packager over the past week or two. It's a known bug, and there's a known work around for now. The root cause of the problem is being investigated and will be fixed.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.