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Alright, it's Halloween, and it's time to get things started! Just like to say that Halloween is our Founder's Birthday! Please be sure to wish XGhozt a safe and Happy 20th Birthday!

The registration period of the SCHT is now closed, and no more applicants will be accepted. Congratulations to our 25 Contestants! Over the course of the next month and a half, they will be facing off in 1v1 matches trying to best 2 of 3 matches overall for the Grand Prize of $150 USD!

Throughout this week, the initial pairing up and scheduling of matches will commence, so contestants, be sure to check your emails frequently! Exact rules and tournament scheduling will be posted up later this week, so for now, hone your Starcraft skills! Matches will take place on ICCUP approved maps (Ironic eh?)

As promised, those entering the tournament will be given the chance to beta test the new and upcoming hack called Freedom! More details about this exclusive offer will be emailed to you so check your spam filters just in case!

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show, for this year is definitely going out with a bang!

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It took me a few weeks, but it's finally done! The Ghoztcraft Army System has been redone and this time it's themed as Starcraft! As you pick you're race, you can choose between Terran, Zerg or Protoss. Each race can only use units from the respective race. Which means we need your help keeping it balanced!

Obviously, we can't actually reproduce the game in text form, but we can try! This is very simple, we carefully selected units, icons and stats for each race. You can pick your race, build up your army using GhoztPoints and attack other members!

This first round is going to be a testing round, to see how each race plays out. I encourage everyone to give it a try, it's like no other Army System!

You can view the rankings, and pick you're race here.

Goodluck Commanders.

Also, big thanks to bounder for finding/making all the icons. And of course, posting will get you more ghostpoints, but no spamming! Please post any suggestions here.

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Ghoztcraft now has the largest Starcraft II gallery on the net. We have a comprehensive set of over 500 images and counting all about Starcrft II! You can help us build the gallery by adding and commenting images. All comments made on images in the gallery also count towards your post count!

Members and guests can comment on the starcraft II pictures in the gallery, and any members can add images. All added content is moderated.

We have image set's of all the Starcraft II Units, Buildings and the new Battle.net Interface.

Check it out! Starcraft II Gallery

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Another Year already!

As of August 6th, 2009 Ghoztcraft is officially four years old. In August 2008 when Ghoztcraft turned three, we had reached 10 million hits in one month, and we've now peaked at 13 million in one month, and now average about 10-11 million.

Another great milestone for this year is reaching 500,000 logged downloads. This means the files in our great download database have been downloaded over 500 thousand times which mean's we've provided terabytes of data to our visitors.

Last but not least, we're now at around 20,000 members registered here at Ghoztcraft with now over 150,000 topics and posts. And we've now topped 300 VIP Members (including expired accounts) which has helped pay for this great hosting we have.

So, once again, thank you all for being a part of this and I hope we can continue to grow this great community we have here.


To celebrate, Lifetime VIP will now be temporarily available until September 15th. You'll be able to purchase Lifetime VIP for a donation of $19.99. This was previously unavailable and still only an option. But we recommend you take this opportunity to your advantage!

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Good news everyone, always always. The Firefox Extension that I know all of you use and love because we're all Firefox users, and stuff.. has been updated to work with Firefox 3.5!

That's pretty much the only change in this version, anyone who has it installed already should be able to check for updates and install it from there.

Otherwise, here's the download link: Ghoztcraft Menu (Firefox Add-on)