Short News 23' Feb 17

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Fat Thursday is over and we can focus back on the gaming world.

fheroes2 version 1.0.1

With various fixes of animations, shadows, AI and so forth there comes Android version, playable on phones (certainly like 6.5") or tablets. Check for the full annoucement here.

The game is mature now and goes toward new campaigns and new maps features, including new map format to escape possible license issues in the feature. So, as I see it, it will be closer to h3-wog designing but saved in some open map format?

Anyway, now when you will be bored you can pack it with yourself, same as with VCMI and play just the most best comforting maps. 

New Games are coming

• Age of Wonders 4 is going to be released at May 2 2023, seems more and more like 4X strategical steampunk game
• Songs of Silence, not much I see about it, this sentence resonated for me the most: "Our goal for you: complete a whole map in a single evening!"
• Civilisation VII in development! Ed Beach will continue as creative director. A very short annoucement comes from the twitter

More of Greg's diary

• Fanstratics Newsletter #31 March 2023
  FST Unit: Mandrill Bersekr and "About importancy of the right weight of the game manual"
  
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #30 February 2023
  FST Unit: Reaper and "About creating valuable manual paper and in-game" 
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #29 January 2023
  FST Unit: Willow Wisp and "Fallout Experience"
  
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #28 December 2022
  FST Unit: Dwarven Alchemists and "About creating good Heroes 2 Map Editor" 
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #27 November 2022
  FST Unit: Faith Archers and "About strategical gaming and importance of Quest Log"
  
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #26 October 2022
  FST Unit: Basilisk and "Young lady wearing roller blades" (Phelan Sykes)
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #25 September 2022
  FST Unit: Naga Blade Dancer
  
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #24 August 2022
  FST Unit: Hellion and "PR Lady and Balding Journalist"
  
  
• Fanstratics Newsletter #23 July 2022
  FST Units: Goblins and "New computer for my Dad"
  
  
• https://www.fanstratics.com/gallery

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[Pol]

Pls note, that this news was a bit belated, so at 23.2 some of these things would be served pretty fresh. But RL happens, so it's pushed out now.

Thanks mighty EvilP, for noticing the games!

[Blake]

Newsletter 32: No HoMM3 stories this time as Greg is still unwell. Interestingly he tackles the scam accusation some have thrown his way.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter32



Newsletter 33: Greg tells another story about the joys of working under 3DO management back in the day and what was the beginning of him deciding to leave NWC.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter33

[Blake]

Newsletter 34 is here. This time Greg tells the story of his first time discovering WinAmp & MP3s and how 3DO being cheap forced NWC to develop their own MP3 decoder for Heroes 3 so they could get the whole thing on one disc.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter34

[Blake]

Newsletter 35 is here. This time Greg tells the story of his (uncredited) involvement in the Heroes 2 Gold Edition and how they put all those extra maps in it while trying to get Heroes 3 finished.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter35

[Blake]

Newsletter 36 is here. This time Greg talks about the whole lost Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Complete source code situation mentioning how it has actually been found and given to Ubisoft in 2019 (wow I missed the news on that) to fix up their HD remake yet nothing has occurred. Also noticed people seem to be voting for it in this steam thread and getting the usual PR marketing responses from Ubisoft lol.

https://www.fanstratics.com/fstnewsletter36