Ubisoft Release 1.7 and Unity
- by Kalah
As I came home from work this evening, there was finally some news about the latest developments of Heroes VII:
Firstly, patch 1.7 has been released, the patch notes to which you can read here.
Secondly, the long-awaited campaign The Lost Tales of Axeoth: Unity has also been released, offering players a free boost of 5 new maps written by Terry B. Ray. So it's basically a free DLC. Also in the package are new heroes, artefacts, creatures and adventure buildings.
You can read all about the contents here, or start it up and play why not?
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The Shadow Council Closes
- by Kalah
After a year-and-a-half of communication exclusively around the development of Heroes VII, Ubisoft have announced the closure of the Shadow Council, transferring the communication with fans to the official forums.
We here at Celestial Heavens have always encouraged the developers of M&M games to communicate directly with the fans wherever practical, and the Shadow Council was a decent attempt at doing so: it enabled the fans to vote on several aspects of the game development, although the comments section was also marred by spamming and malicious flaming. We believe the official forums will offer little in the way of direct communication, as the traffic load is way too high for the busy game developers to follow directly. They must therefore rely on a team of forum managers/moderators (as the announcement above admits) to relay the relevant info to them. This does introduce go-between and effectively severs the direct link between fans and developers, but also filters out the de-motivating "flaming" comments before they reach the devs.
Another opportunity lies in the use of fan-controlled forums such as ours, where H7 devs are known to pop by from time to time.
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H7 1.7 Announced for February
- by Kalah
The developers have announced the upcoming release of patch 1.7, making several changes to Heroes VII. The changes include the removal of the level cap, a new campaign, balance fixes and some other stuff.
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JVC's Creature Quest
- by Kalah
Jon Van Caneghem's new game, Creature Quest, now has its own website and a trailer. Currently available "Down Under", you can sign up to the site to keep tabs on the development and further availability.
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Celestial Heavens Review Heroes VII
- by Kalah
We're ending the year with a bang! The Celestial Heavens review of Heroes VII is finally complete. 
I hope you enjoy it.
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Lost Tales Coming February 2016
- by Kalah
The Lost Tales of Axeoth is a set of campaigns for Heroes VII, made by Julien "Marzhin" Pirou and based on earlier (but unused) scripts for Heroes IV created by storyteller Terry B. Ray. Post-poned slightly from the original plan, the first of the two campaigns will be released in February 2016, containing 5 Academy maps and telling the story of Genevieve Seymour. There is a second campaign in the pipeline too, sporting the Stronghold faction.
Weaving stories from the pre-Ubisoft universe into the world of Ashan is something map makers have done in the past, but this is the first time such maps are coming from an official source. Getting these extra maps will no doubt get the fans excited.
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Christmas 2015
- by Kalah
From all of us to all of you, have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year - may there be many good games and films under the tree for you.
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Good Deals For Christmas?
- by Kalah
I'm grazing the Internet and looking for good deals for Christmas; it is customary for shops (both online and retail) to have sales in December since they are looking to take advantage of people's shopping sprees, and because they don't want to have superfluous stock as the year ends.
So far..
Read more: Good Deals For Christmas?
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H7 Walkthroughs Coming Along
- by Kalah
With our past contributors currently unavailable, I am putting together this game's walkthroughs myself. Now I know how much work is involved. Phew.
So far, I'm about half-way. On our walkthroughs page we now have the campaigns for Haven, Academy and Stronghold listed. Next on my playlist is Necropolis.
The walkthroughs are fairly simple and don't contain any sort of advanced strategy for the individual factions. If you would like to contribute something like that to our site, feel free to contact me.
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