The Heroes Round Table

After a slow start, the Heroespedia got a second life thanks to Lost from the Equilibris team. You too can help build the largest Heroes of Might and Magic IV reference, with or without a registration. Don't be afraid of the templates and the various layouts: we will gladly review your work and refo...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images/mapscreens/gimme_my_magic_arrow_sm.jpg We’ve received two Heroes 3 Restoration of Erathia maps from Alter Ego. Gimme My Magic Arrow[/b] is a large single player map with the following description: In times of the great human-elfish war, Aine decides to show t...

With every new release of the Windows operating system, old games experience compatibility problems eventually. Judging from the numerous emails we receive about this matter, the Might and Magic games, unfortunately, are no exception. Our guest writer Andy4590 built a very interesting troubleshootin...

Venom from Drachenwald points out an article from the Financial Times Germany : "It says that Ubi has contacted some other companies to prevent an EA takeover, for example Elevation Partners (Members for example ex-EA executive Chief John Riccitiello, ex-Apple financial Chief Fred Anderson), th...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images/misc/mapreviews.jpg Having played over 150 user-made maps for Heroes IV and formally reviewed about 100 of them, I felt it was time to collate the information contained in these reviews in one page where players can easily find good maps in the category of ma...

Xbox 2 News has an interview with the founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO, Trip Hawkins. The article generated some controversy on the Internet because Hawkins got confused about the meaning of HD-DVD and predicted Microsoft would buy Nintendo within five years (!!). Read it all here . Read full art...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images/mapscreens/forgotten_realms_sm.jpg My new Homm4 map Forgotten Realms is ready for testing. It is an XL map and with all six colors playable as human. The map was build for multiplayer use, but can be played as singleplayer as well. Further it’s balanced for d...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images/news/alexander_thumb.jpg The Alexander movie featuring Colin Farrel, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie didn't get very positive reviews . The computer game, published by Ubisoft and produced by our friend Fabrice Cambounet, doesn't fare better, according to ...

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. ...

http://dynamic3.gamespy.com/~homm/features/mapreviews/images/mapreviews.jpg More reviews, anyone would think I'm on uni holidays or something! The two maps which have received the dubious honour of my attention are Lunch and Swamp Flowers . Both maps exhibited a lot of map-making talent and much ef...

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 ...

http://nordstar.sbn.bz/teleport_07.gif 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, s...

Electronic Arts has been given the green light to finalize the purchase of 20% of Ubisoft shares. The company saw its own stock rise by $3.12 a share, a 4.8 percent increase, hitting the $68 mark for the first time. There are more financial news at GameSpot . In other news, Ubisoft plans to create 1...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm4/images/spells/top_order.jpg Chaos Magic | Death Magic | Life Magic | Nature Magic | Order Magic Italic text = Equilibris Mod. https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm4/images/spells/order_spells/blur.jpg Blur 1 2 Blur obscures the target's true position, increasi...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm4/images/spells/top_nature.jpg Chaos Magic | Death Magic | Life Magic | Nature Magic | Order Magic Italic text = Equilibris Mod. NAME LEVEL COST EFFECT https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm4/images/spells/nature_spells/pathfinding.jpg Pathfinding 1 2 Pathfinding...

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 ...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images/mapscreens/steal_magnolias_sm.jpg "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 ...

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 Tomorr...

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. https://www.celestialheavens.com/honline/images/h3ol-NPC-tigerman_sm.jpg https://www.celestialheavens.com/honline/images/h3o...

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images/news/Trip_Hawkins_ex3do.jpg 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 Wrigh...