26
Nov/07
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Free Ventrilo Server

Christmas season is here! So don’t forget when you ask for your new games this Christmas also to ask for a game server from Darkstar. You’ll get instant setup, low pings, and lots of frags when you sign up today.

I’m feeling the Christmas spirit. I’ll give away a free year of a 25 slot Ventrilo server (an $83.45 value!) to the best 100-150 word essay about why you like DarkStar. Just reply to this article with your essay (be sure to use your email address, it won’t be visible after you submit it but it will let me contact you.) All submissions must be turned in by Christmas morning. Then I’ll take a few days to decide and we’ll make sure your vent server is up for the full calendar year 2008. DarkStar reserves the right to use your submission for advertising (or we might hang it up in the break room or show it to our moms or something. Gotta make mom proud.) I should mention that if you already have a server I’ll credit the $83.45 towards future service.) What have you got to lose? Submit it now before you forget! There are no strings attached, the deal is exactly how it sounds. If you’re on the main page, you won’t get a comment form, you’ll need to be on the article’s page to see it.

I’ll leave all the replies invisible until Christmas day so you don’t need to worry about someone else seeing yours and copying.

In the mean time, you can go to these links for game servers, Vent servers, and TeamSpeak Servers.

UPDATE: A special thanks to everyone who submitted. We’ll judge our favorite in the next 24 hours. A few went over the word limit, and while we’re flattered, we think the most fair solution to this is to judge only the first 150 words.

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14
Nov/07
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Server Upgrades

Ventrilo 3.0 has been released, adding a ton of new features. DarkStar Communications is proud to announce we will be upgrading all of our servers via rolling restarts November 14, 2007 at 09:00-11:00 AM EST.

We believe you’ll find these upgrades to be extremely useful in terms of new features as well as make Ventrilo much easier to use. Please note you will need to upgrade your client from version 2.3 to Ventrilo 3.0. The links to the free Ventrilo 3.0 downloads can be found here.

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13
Nov/07
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Ventrilo 3.0

As of very late tonight/early tomorrow, we’ll be upgrading all of our Ventrilo servers from version 2.3 to version 3.0. Please alert all of your users of this change. We’ll have extra staff on hand tonight to help handle any support questions you may have. It might be a good idea to download the Ventrilo 3.0 client as soon as it is available, which is available from Ventrilo’s official website, ventrilo.com.

So why the update? Ventrilo is adding a few security measures and lengthening the feature list. Based on the pre-release notice on their forums, a few of the changes include

* User Access Rights (UAR)
* Guest account and restrictions
* Per channel codecs
* User authorization channels
* Ranks
* User complaint reporting
* Private chat sessions

But that’s not all the features. Apparently the change log is 13 pages so far, so get excited. We know we’re thrilled.

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