Santa has stopped by SpecialAttack headquarters and since you were all nice this year he left a bunch of presents for you! Prepare for some awesomeness in the following days:

Twice as many points-per-donation rate (Today, 21.12 - New Year, 31.12)

 Starting from now until the new year, you will receive twice as many SpA-points for every euro donated - that's 60 points / €.

Doubled rewards for playing on SpA servers (Thursday, 24.12 - Saturday, 26.12)

On Christmas Eve you will get 1 SpA-point for every seven and half minutes of playtime on our servers!

Partymode (Wednesday, 23.12 -  Sunday, 27.12)

Since party hats are the closest thing TF2 has to Christmas we will enable partymode on our servers so you can have fun blasting enemies into presents and balloons.

This is WAR SPECIAL WAR! (Wednesday, 23.12 - Sunday, 27.12)

Along with the partymode we will be running a small competition. The top 24 players with most kills in this time period will receive a spray permit and class-limiter immunity for 1 month. Get in the top 10 and we will throw in a reserved slot for 1 month. And for the best 3 of you the slot will last not one, not two but three months! Are you still reading this? Time for some practice!

Some time ago quite a few SpA members started playing Heroes of Newerth and then stopped after they realized they suck at it. Only one brave warrior, Lim-Dul, decided to hone his skills over many, many wasted evenings of rage inducing matches and rise to the rank of absolute mediocrity.

Now it's time to introduce a whole new generation of fail to the world of Newerth!

Hereby I'm proud to announce the SpecialAttack Heroes of Newerth Weekend. The game is currently in closed beta but all former accounts, including mine, have a TON of invitations, so we will be able to cater for everybody.

The game is a clone of Defense of the Ancients, a WarCraft 3 mod, and basically plays out like a team-based Diablo with all the leveling and items contained within the boundaries of a single match. It's a lot of fun and with time you will discover unheard of depths to the gameplay. Sadly it's a bit hard to get into the game with no good documentation available except for user created guides and that's what I'm here for.

We will start on Saturday and Sunday (14-15.11.09) at 16:00 CET and play organized 5on5 matches every one or two hours until we get bored - sign-ups are on a first-come first-serve basis and various fun gameplay modes and settings will be tried out for maximum enjoyment.

A forum topic will set up when I'm able to do so (damn you, Hedgehog Incident!), in which I will provide additional info and where everybody can request beta keys.

Update: Thread created: http://forum.specialattack.net/viewtopic.php?f=94&t=6603

Also, BOOBS!