The kingdom of Sargovin has been overrun by an evil alliance, led by the necromancer Morloch. Garvant, the former king, and his queen Sharwe, have been turned into undead and banished into the world that lies between the realms of the living and that of the dead. Garvant, however, is determined to return to the living and reclaim his kingdom.
Sarvi has sent us his latest creation, a new map named Garvant.
It is a large single player Homm4 map, which requires the Gathering Storm expansion. Sarvi has previously made a bunch of maps that are available at Celestial Heavens.

On a related note, look for Ekshenman's new version of the Commander script in the Script Library. It allows commanders to go beyond the 100,000 experience or 25 level cap and get 6 of 15 skills.
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Robenhagen just made your day: he completed his Heroes of Might and Magic IV spell section,
a reference that will be useful to mapmakers and players alike. All five pages include the
level of each spell, its cost in mana and a description of the effect. Access the Spell index page to view them all.
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An updated version of the map Island of Sunrise for the HOMMIV Equilibris mod v.3.51+ is now available on the Equilibris Mod Site. It's by mod team member Fosgen and, as you might expect from a map by an Equilibris team member, has some 'interesting' scripting applied to it. The english version is still under translation from russian, so unless you're fluent or particularly keen to play Island of Sunrise, you might want to wait until the english version is available. We'll keep you posted.
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Things have been rather quiet on the mod scene since the beginning of the year. However, the forums always contain some interesting discussions. The first one, New town in 3.59, is about the addition of a 10th town in the next version of the Heroes III mod, something that Heroes fans have been dreaming about for years: "To be completely honest, if I am able to add one town, I can make it adjustable," explains Slava Salnikov, the project lead. "This means that ALL things about it (look, creatures, unique buildings and so on) will be customizable. This in its turn means that I we have more than one town ready, the map maker will have a choice which one of them (or none) to use in his/her map." Unfortunately, without access to the source code, the coding of the new town is a particularly difficult task. But Slava has been known to perform miracles before.

In the Equilibris forum, Installing Equi includes step-by-step procedures for the installation of the Heroes IV mod. Players who have been experiencing problems with the setup should definitely have a look.
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Strategy First sends word that the Gold edition of the turn-based strategy hit Disciples II has just shipped. The package includes the complete Disciples II campaign series including Dark Prophecy, Guardians of the Light, Servants of the Dark, Rise of the Elves, and five new bonus quests. The game has a suggested retail price of $19.99.
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"You are Gloria, a young woman growing up in a male-dominated society. Rumors about a search for something called a Grail has caused a lot of excitement among the men of the village, especially your brother Donovan. One insult too many and you resolve to show all those male jerks that you are the Woman!!!"

Bryan Riley's Steal Magnolias is another entry in the MapHaven mapmaking contest. It is an extra-large single-player RPG map with a strong emphasis on combat tactics: it is recommended to play as a barbarian or another might hero. The map includes a lot of story and characters, so read all the text for any clue. It requires the Winds of War expansion.
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At the 8th annual Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Awards in Las Vegas, Ubisoft received two Interactive Achievement awards, the video game equivalent of Oscars. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within won for Platform Action/Adventure Game of the Year and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow won for Console Action/Adventure Game of the Year. Ubisoft titles also received nominations in four other categories. Here's hoping that Heroes V is worthy of such high honors.

Source: eToychest
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More portraits from the MMORPG, Heroes Online: Death Knights, a Lord, Tigerman and a Devil. An attractive bunch, don't you agree? View them on the Heroes Online Overview page.

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It was announced in a press release yesterday that the 3DO and EA founder, Trip Hawkins, "is entering the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, joining previous honorees Peter Molyneux, Yu Suzuki, Will Wright, John Carmack, Sid Meier, and Shigeru Miyamoto."

That is surprising, to say the least. There is an excellent forum post at Blue's News (look for post #1) by a former 3DO employee: "As a pc software developer, 3DO was the king of mediocrity. I've never before or since worked for a company that had so little interest in the quality of their own products. Instead, Trip consistently touted the increasing number of (bad) games we produced each year. Amid this slow downhill tumble of product quality, Trip put extra effort into ensuring the continuing failure of his company by abolishing the Quality Control division"

As for the Might and Magic fans, they will remember Trip as the responsible for the desmise of New World Computing and the Might and Magic series.
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