funny. its so sad that Ubi never really figured out a good monetization model for the game. so any major rule changes I should know about? just started playing on the new north american servers with some guys over at ArsTechnica.com. but the game basically seems exactly as when i last played it a ye...

Amazing!

Oh how times have improved since that spreadsheet we had to use.

There's a nice guy named Jactari who, quite kindly, has built us all an amazing HOMMK information database and battle calculator.

Just thought you'd all want to know.

Hail friends and enemies! After 36 years in development, most of it secret and buried deep under ground with the truffles in France, Ubi has finally decided to unleash the mighty HOMM Kingdoms on North American shores. Amazing! We hope to dust off our old reference info and start keeping you up to d...

Hey fellas, what did I miss?

It seems I can play in North America now. Anyone else with me?

Hey Zen, good to see you again.

So just France still eh? Too bad. And is the GM going to be voluntary? I have the feeling Ubi is going to pull the plug on this game.

Anyone have any idea what's happening with HOMMK these days? When I head to the official site all I see is an empty discussion forum and a message that the game isn't available in my country (Canada). All the other fan sites seem pretty dead -- no activity from The Dominion, nothing new at the HOMMK...

The fine folks over at Kotaku have uncovered a job ad that seems to indicate a serious new game in the HOMM universe is under development. The advertisement, posted on Gamasutra by UbiSoft Studios in Shanghai, originally said that the studio is developing "Heroes of MM" as "a brand ne...

Hail and well met! After a long and sleepy hiatus twiddling our thumbs and playing King's Bounty alone by ourselves (you have played King's Bounty right?) we finally have some news to report from Yaiden . And it is good news. http://hommk.3deified.net/img/yaiden.jpg The technical beta that just ende...

It has only been around for a week, but browser-based strategy game Civony is already looking pretty good. At first blush, the game offers robust trading, questing, building, chat, tutorial and alliance systems. Armies are lead into combat by heroes who can be customized with a decent number of rewa...

Indy French game developer Luc Bernard wrote Kotaku yesterday with news that his new iPhone game, MechoWars , will be available sometime this month for $5 . The gameplay in MechoWars is said to borrow heavily from AdvanceWars and Fire Emblem . The story text seems to borrow heavily from teenage melo...

King’s Bounty and the HOMM Series: The Past and Future of Game Design By Vizier Vikers • March 2 2009 (originally published February 28 2006) Editor's Note: This piece considers how HOMM's famously turn-based game design actually evolved from it's earliest and initial iteration with the &qu...

There's no doubt that HOMM:K will be better than the competition. Not just because it's HOMM, but because other browser-based massive online strategy games are not the most exciting games out there. Just consider the leading two examples: http://hommk.3deified.net/img/traviandude.png Travian: Lets p...

http://hommk.3deified.net/img/fabrice.jpg Our good friends over at CelestialHeavens report that March 1st was Fabrice Cambounet's birthday. As we all know, Fabrice dresses like Pikachu and produced the very pretty HOMMV. Last August he joined the HOMMK team to get it ready for release. Fabrice is n...

Once again the power of the fan media gets results! Just two days after we posted an editorial asking for a status update , Yaiden shows up wearing his Fez of Community Development +3 and gives us some official reassurance that the quest for perfection in HOMMK is still very much under way. He even ...

As another three months have passed since our dear Yadien confirmed that HOMMK was in "technical beta testing" , gamers once again feel like they are talking to a brick wall. Enthusiastic acolytes of all things HOMM have run out of rumors and gossip, are tired of guessing at features, and ...

Here is a topic that I thought deserved a poll . We've heard the developers claim that HOMM:K won't be tied to any specific platform or web browser because the entire game is being written in Java and Ajax (rather than Flash or Active X or otherwise). This is a beautiful thing because it allows perv...

Thanks Eru! Most everyone has given up on HOMM:K but I'm going to hang in there until they tell me to go home and never come back.

Stay tuned, I plan to keep working on this theme to make it more HOMM-ish.

Hail and well met! As you can see, The Kingdom has upgraded to an industrial-strength website system. This will allow for a far more robust community experience. We anticipate great things from HOMM:Kingdoms, and we intend to be busy serving up information about it. This is the best way to do so. Th...

Like a zombie hungry for brains, development of HOMM:K continues to stumble forward aimlessly yet inevitably. Yaiden has released a new update on the official site , stating the following: http://hommk.3deified.net/img/yaiden.jpg Just to give you an update of where we are in the project, I’m pleased...