I saw it mentioned that you can’t get them if you bought the game elsewhere, but I bought it here, and it has never once updated the internet updates since I bought it. I just have the ones that were already out there before I bought it, but I see newer ones being shown on the boards so I know theres been more since then. Refreshing doesn’t help either. My version is 1.1a, not sure if that helps any.
I didn’t mean patches, rather the new avatars and things like that. I cannot patch the game. I’ve tried about three patches and they all say patch failed when I try to patch it. 
As the site owner/developer’s on vacation, I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait another week before he can reply. 
The good news is that he’s very quick to respond, and offer help.