News Archive 2012
- Posted by Suppiluliuma on December 31st, 2012 @ 12:50 a.m.
- 2013 will be the first year with 4 different digits since 1987.
Wising the best for all of you
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- Merry Christmas
- Posted by Suppiluliuma on December 24th, 2012 @ 12:57 p.m.
- For all the community, enjoy the holidays and have a great time with those you love,
Best wishes from the High King of the Hittites lol
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- 15 years of Age of Empires
- Posted by PhatFish on October 15th, 2012 @ 09:49 a.m.
- Today it has been 15 years since the original Age of Empires hit the stores and was released! The series has come a long way since then; from the original game and the wonderful Rise of Rome expansion to the fantastic follow-up Age of Kings and The Conquerors, the spin-off Age of Mythology and The Titans, Age of Empires 3 and it’s two expansions and finally Age of Empires Online.
We’ve seen the rise and fall of Ensemble Studios, and the founding of new game companies such as Robot Entertainment and PeopleFun. The age community and fanbase has grown steadily (thanks to fan-sites such as HeavenGames), and now, 15 years later, we still share the love for these wonderful games that have a special place in our heart, which is quite amazing to say at least!
How it all started: AoE was originally called “Dawn of Man”.
Forum Party
As announced a few days ago, we held a forum party yesterday to celebrate AoE’s birthday. While it didn’t turn out exactly as I had hoped (me having issues with Gameranger , and the event starting a bit later than scheduled), we finally played a game on Voobly which was very nice. I hardly ever play online these days, but it was a blast to play again since the last time I went on GR or Voobly (which has been a while).
Staticzor owned Juanda and me – never underestimate a good Egy player!
I chose Shang, being used to their playing style. I have lost pretty much all my skills, so I decided just to play it easy and have fun while it lasted. It was a 1v1v1 FFA. It definetely was a lot of fun and I got that feeling of nostalgia once again. I do miss the old Zone days though, those were the best
Be sure to hug your AoE today. Or, you can congratulate AoE in this thread.
Happy birthday AoE!!!
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- Forum Party Sunday!
- Posted by PhatFish on October 11th, 2012 @ 07:56 a.m.
We don’t have these kind of events anymore (not on AoEH at least), and because upcoming Monday will be AoE’s 15th anniversary, I thought it would be a nice idea to make Sunday 14th of October a day for celebrating and host a forum party for a change. It will begin at 5:00 PM, EST/21:00 GMT (time converter here) and will continue for several hours. Using the Gameranger client, look for AoEH Forum Party room. You can also join Voobly if you feel like slaying some villies sunday.Anyways, we encourage you to play AoE (or it’s sequels) this weekend!
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- Downtime
- Posted by PhatFish on August 30th, 2012 @ 4:43 p.m.
- HeavenGames will have some scheduled downtime these coming days, starting today which you might have noticed.
It’s all for the good however, so please bare with us the following days:
– HG will be offline today, August 30, 2012, from 7am EST to noon (estimated).
– Downloads and teamspeak will be offline all day [on] August 31, 2012
– All of HG will be offline from September 1, 2012 ’till September 4, 2012 (at the latest), though the sites should be back online sooner.As always, blame Zen
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- Granary upload limit changed to 48 mb
- Posted by PhatFish on July 07th, 2012 @ 5:55 p.m.
- Forumer Zapdotep, the mastermind behind and creator of the wonderful Composite Editor, asked us to change the upload limit for submitting files to the Granary. After discussing the matter with the high council of Gondor err HG, we now accept submissions up to 48 Megabytes(previously 8mb), which should be plenty to serve your project needs.
Also, a bug on the main site has been fixed – The top-right part of the “Recent forum posts” was covered by the background image of the right-menu, meaning you couldn’t click the links. Thanks to Zapdotep for notifying us!
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posted 05-15-12 09:52 AM ET (US)
Today it is exactly 15 years ago since |
If you could change three things about AoE or RoR… |
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posted 05-25-12 07:57 AM ET (US)
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A blast from the past! |
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posted 04-25-12 07:58 AM ET (US)
As I mentioned several news posts ago, we don’t often see VIPs posting in our forums. Remember that AoE is olmost 15 years old now – which makes this very special.
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And the winner is… |
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posted 04-07-12 01:14 PM ET (US)
Second place goes to our fellow staff member The third place goes to Lastly, You can find Our first Pretty Town Contest has been quite a success and the participants produced fantastic looking cities. I hope you enjoy viewing/playing the entries as much as the judges did. A big thank you to all who participated! |
PTC updates |
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posted 04-24-12 10:40 AM ET (US)
With the reviews done and
Thats right, next to Suppiluliuma, I am now able to move the entries (amongst many other |
Pretty Town Contest reminder |
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posted 02-19-12 02:37 PM ET (US)
In case you didn’t knew, we are holding a
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The new year has begun… |
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posted 01-13-12 10:15 AM ET (US)
… and with it comes a new version of the
Other new additions are eye-candy (taken from Age of Kings) and a plethora of heroes, ranging from Aemilianus to Xanthippus, each with unique stats. If this has caught your attention, download the latest version The results for the annual awards ceremony are in, with our overlord King Blatant VII taking up the biggest amount of all votes casted! View the results Our The |
New look |
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posted 12-14-11 11:28 AM ET (US)
Hi everyone, as you probably noticed we have gotten a new look after all these years, which includes a brand new header and right menu. In case you don’t see it yet or only partially, clear your browser cache and hit the refresh button.
Some parts remain the same – AoEH preserves its traditional looks which is what I was aiming for when designing since all our visitors are familiar with it. I am currently updating every single page, most sections and pages are done already but some still need to get the new coat. We have a lot of content so it may take a few days before the remaining pages are updated. You can still access them of course! I hope you like what you are seeing, and would like to hear your thoughts on it, as well as any suggestions you might have, feel free to share them with us. |
Happy new year |
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posted 01-01-12 03:43 PM ET (US)
On behalf of the Staff I would like to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2012!
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