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- by Pol
"Hello, it's Christmas Time.."
Watch lovely Jess McDonell (formerly of GameSpot) as she has been playing Might & Magic VIII, one of her favorites as a matter of fact, in a stream: "Jess Plays Might & Magic 8, Her Childhood Favourite Game & Noone Knows What It Is" 
Thanks Angelspit for the tip!
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At moddb.com
How that works?
You can choose from pre-selected Top 100. And the only candidate for Heroes franchise is Heroes 5.5. So, the choice is clear, yes?
You can vote, till the end of this day.
Update:
The results should become official in ten days. Voting is now closed.
Update2:
This is the result page, sadly no Heroes5.5. So, perhaps, next time? 
- Entropy : Zero 2
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly
- Unification
- Empire at War Expanded: Fall of the Republic
- DNF2001 Restoration Project
- Voxel Doom
- Half-Life: Field Intensity
- RealRTCW
- Classic Offensive
- Coterminus
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- by Pol
Featuring Maestro P.A.R. 
Few years ago we announced the #HOWeek campaign for the first official album. Here we are starting #HOWeek2 project, you will be able to find out which pieces we have chosen for the upcoming album "5th Anniversary of Heroes Orchestra".
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- by Pol
Master of Magic - Release Date Tomorrow & Twitch
As we approach Master of Magic’s release on December 13, we can’t wait to see what you think of the game.
The feedback we received so far has been great, both during our live streams on Twitch as well as on many video reviews on YouTube.
For December 13 we have prepared something special for you: we will be live on Twitch with Mila “Yuuki” from MuHa Games, Writer and Lead Quest Designer, and Slitherine’s own Edmon. Join us at 3 pm GMT on Slitherine’s Twitch channel . We will be live with an hour-long stream just before release.
The launch of Master of Magic will kickstart Slitherine Next, Slitherine’s new three hours long live show which will showcase all of our upcoming games.
Update 13.12.:
Game is up, you can get the bundle for 42€ 
Direct link to Slitherine Bundle Page, with some small discount.
Out now on Steam, GoG, Epic and Slitherine store!
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- by Pol
Hi Celestial Heavens,
I figure your community is still active and you may know someone interested in this.
I am giving away my old collection of Heroes and Might and Magic games. These are my copies of the games from being part of the team, they have full contents with original packaging. The weight of all the games is about 13lbs, I have yet to find a box to ship them all in so that will add to the weight total. The games are free but they are heavy (especially the compendium). I live in California, so anyone residing in the USA would be great to keep the cost of shipping down. If anyone is local to zip code 91320 you can pick these up for free!
If there is interest, please send me the destination zip code and city of the recipient so that I can get a shipping estimate, or if someone is picking up that would be ideal.
Photo of the games pasted to message.
Thanks!
Tracy Iwata
Update:
Alex will receive the collection, confirmed by Tracy. Offer closed. The first one was the choosen. ;)
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- by Pol
Hi Folks,
the time is here Heroes 3: The Board Game Kickstarter is Live! If you wanna be a backer and get your copy of the game, take a look here.
BTW The Goal 51.606$ is already surpassed 18x, few minutes after start!
Update! 2022 Nov 19
With help of over 12 000 backers we have unlocked Tower Expansion! Introducing a new faction, an add-on comes with every Stretch Goals package!
Update 2022 Nov 29
- Lord Haart is back (& alive)
- Bron is back
- Deemer is back
- Vidomina is back
- Tazar is back
- Mephala is back
- Jeddite is back
- Adelaide is back
- Fortress Town miniature
- Unfriendly units (set of faction units as neutral cards)
- Tower story solo campaign with Dracon
- Dungeon story solo campaign with Mutare
- Troll miniature
- Gold Golem miniature
- Genie miniature
- Gremlin & Mummy minies
- Titan miniature
- Spanish language is unlocked*
- Czech language is unlocked*
- Sweden language is unlocked*
- Inferno Faction (see update from 2022 Nov 30)
- FAQ
*They unlock any langauges if there's at least 750 backers speaking it. The localised versions will be distributed later, in 2024.
Update 2022 Nov 30
And it's over with beautiful 26,993 backers, who helped to pledge €3,834,885 and bring this project to life. And not at least but at last they added also Inferno Faction as expansion.
Update 2022 Dec 9
What's next for Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Board Game? | AMA | #13 | 09.12.2022. Video added to the top.
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- by Pol
Kickstarter trailer is out, albeit kickstarter is not. Take a look at Official Trailer if it meets your requirements. Erathia must surv...[ahem, be conquered]?
The official trailer is online!
Get a glimpse of how the game looks and plays with our Kickstarter video! Don't forget to thumb it up 👍 and leave a comment on how you like it!
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Official release date is December 13th 2022, wait for it!
Working towards the Gold Q&A excerpt:
Q: Is there a plan to make finding good settler locations easier, like a map filter/lens that shows all nearby hex values instead of needing to hover over each one?
A: Yes, we do have some ideas and plans for this, but we will see if it can be done before release, or future updates.
Q: Will unrest modifiers per race be included as I feel this is hidden info currently?
A: We don’t currently have plans to display those, but race tension is implemented in the game and can even be modded.
Q: Loss of fame when a town is taken seems to be missing, will you implement it?
A: You do lose Fame when a city is lost, however, this information is not currently displayed. It is on a list for possible future updates.
Q: With the final release almost upon us, could you share what have been the biggest challenges and the most difficult decisions you had to take?
A: Faithfully recreating the spells, because they are so custom made, it has been a real challenge attempting this. And this leads directly to the other one, the AI, because all of the game’s mechanics are so irregular (in that they often have exceptions and special rules, rather than unified systems) teaching the AI to act with intelligence has been all the more complex.
And of course, just juggling expectation vs reality. So now coming up to the release it was hard to say stop to adding/modding features and just focusing on making what we have great.
Q:The game seems mostly very faithful to the original, and you took only minor (tasteful) decisions, like the hex maps or the refined events. Would you share what drove you to this path, are you happy with it?
A: I think it is safe to say that you, that is, the passionate fan base of the original game, have really steered us in this direction. When we were first approached to do this project, we weren’t convinced if we were going to stay as faithful. But, upon research, playing the game again, and just interacting with the fans, we decided to go all in. Are we happy we did it that way? Ask me again on December 13th!
Although, on a more personal note, I [Yuuki] actually am very happy we did it this way, as I dislike remakes and adaptations that don’t try it.
Q: Will there eventually be more than two ways to win?
A: We do not have plans to expand the game in this direction at the moment. Although back in the day of initial design talks, we did indeed ponder about the possibilities. So perhaps in the future we may revisit those ideas.
Q: Performance: is the beta slower than the final release is going to be? Even on relatively fast modern hardware, I sometimes notice stuttering or slow response times. Nothing dramatic, but I imagine that lower-end machines might struggle more.
A: The development build does tend to be more resource demanding than release builds, so we hope the answer is yes, and we are working towards that goal. Additionally, we plan to invest additional time in memory management which may also positively impact the final performance.
Q: On a completely more facetious note, what are the dev team favourite wizards or heroes?
A: I [Yuuki] play a custom Wizard almost every time now, I use Kali’s portrait the most, and I like Alchemy, Warlord, Channelling and mostly Life magic (I know, probable a terrible way to play, but I like it... them boosted paladins, love’em!) To further display my inaptitudes as a strategy player, I actually like getting B’Shan, cause he’s free :P
SirPi tells me Merlin is his favourite Wizard, although it is a love/hate relationship. Merlin is the first Wizard on the list, thus for quick tests, we tend to click on him most often... and then Brax is Szymon’s favourite hero as he loves dwarves.
A’vee singled out Jafar as her favourite Wizard, because of the mana - gold flexibility. And she likes MysticX but her reasons are Unknown… (must be the menacingly glowing eyes).
Shell, like me, likes to play custom Wizard. His BadBoy uses the Raven portrait and has Warlock +Myrran+Channeler+Alchemy and two Life books. His favourite hero is Mortu the Black Knight.
Khash did not poke his head from under the code to answer and Obi, being Khash’s padawan probably felt he should do as his master does...
Q: Will Master of Magic have the same compile at execute style modding as Thea 2 did? Because that was fantastic.
A: Both MoM and Thea2 share the scripting system, where a fair share of the gameplay is already exposed to scripts you can modify and which are loaded when you start the game and no tools except notepad are needed.
Both games have large databases in XML format, relatively easy to read (we hope ;) ) and both games have the event editor, with possibilities which can be extended in many aspects by scripts and database.
More modding features will likely join those above following implementations similar to what Thea 2 offers so yes, we hope you will be satisfied.
Q: How many things/what can be modded?
A: At the moment, the moddable areas are:
- Adding/Modding Skills (but not the art atm)
- Adding/Modding Traits (not the art atm)
- Units (although not not 3D models, and not 2D art atm)
- Resource distribution
- Lair rewards
- Building bonuses
- New buildings (but they will not show on the map, as you can’t add the 2d art to the map, and no new icons atm)
- Change/add spells (including sound effects but not art atm and not special effects)
- Adding music (by adding an Ogg file to the assets)
- Adding sound effects
- Race tension stats can also be modded in the database
- World events via the event editor
- Some AI behaviours will be moddable
- Treaties in Diplomacy can be adjusted in terms of values
Things we plan to add when possible:
- Adding custom 2D art and icons
Things that are less likely to become available (we’re not saying they are impossible, but those would require a lot, so we can’t make any promises here):
- 3D models
- Visual effects
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- by Pol
Heroes in Space?
This game is in development for quite some time, they claim more than a year, albeit for Early Access or Release Date you will need to wait.
The developer is Czech Oxymoron Studio, which already worked on games like Total War: Three Kingdoms or Quantum Brake or Mafia II/III and the list would be longer. With the top, completely developed on their own, Project Hospital.
Let see the official annoucement:
New War in Ancient Universe
The Siren star system, birthplace of a galactic alliance, and the homeworld of a lost Primals civilization, has been cut from the rest of the galaxy. As a result, the carefully built alliance split into bickering factions and secluded colonies. These days, hardly anyone pays attention to the ruins scattered all over the few habitable planets of a freshly isolated system. The deeper you venture into the uncharted regions, the stronger the feeling of endangerment grows. There is something else. An entity, a shade, an echo of whispers from below.
Key elements
- Explore a rich sci-fi world and discover secrets of a lost civilization
- Collect powerful artifacts, secure important resources, upgrade your bases and hire the strongest units
- Level-up your commanders and crush your opponents in exciting turn-based battles
- Take control over several different species and factions
- Old-school strategy game with modern controls and intuitive UI
You can read more and subscribe at silenceofthesiren.com or at Steam. Project Hospital was success, so there's a reason why to keep expectations high this time.
What is unclear is, if they will plan to support longevity with map / campaign editor, modding support or it will have several time replay value. So smaller in scope and ambitions but faster to complete. This or that, everlasting question.
See more images below and enjoy!
You can browse more, including some music snippets.
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