{"id":30619,"date":"2026-01-30T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30619"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:39:25","slug":"heroes-of-might-and-magic-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/collection\/heroes-of-might-and-magic-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Of Might And Magic Creator Advising On Olden Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re big <strong>Heroes of Might and Magic<\/strong> fans here at <strong>Retro<\/strong> <strong>News<\/strong> and have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/heroes-1-million-wishlists\/\">following<\/a> the release of the latest title, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3105440\/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_Olden_Era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Olden<\/strong> <strong>Era<\/strong><\/a>. We gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/heroes-of-might-and-magic-preview\/\">demo a try<\/a> and were immensely impressed with how the game is shaping up, ready for its release later this year. The latest announcement from developer <strong>Unfrozen<\/strong> is that the series original creator, <strong>Jon<\/strong> <strong>Van<\/strong> <strong>Caneghem<\/strong>, has been brought on board as a creative advisor. This is brilliant news for fans looking forward to <strong>Heroes of Might and Magic<\/strong> getting back to its roots. As a bonus for fans, there is an extensive video interview with\u00a0<strong>Jon<\/strong> on <strong>YouTube<\/strong> now, with the link below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Caneghem<\/strong> founded <strong>New<\/strong> <strong>World<\/strong> <strong>Computing<\/strong> in 1983 and helped found the <strong>Might and Magic<\/strong> series with the release of <strong>Might and Magic: Book One<\/strong>, released in 1986. He was inducted into the <strong>Computer<\/strong> <strong>Gaming<\/strong> <strong>World<\/strong> <strong>Hall<\/strong> <strong>of Fame<\/strong> in 2004 for Strategy and Role-Playing games, and his videogame career has spanned decades, with stints at <strong>NCSoft<\/strong>, <strong>EA<\/strong>, <strong>Trion<\/strong>, and more. He\u2019ll be assisting the developers at <strong>Unfrozen<\/strong> with game design, worldbuilding, and other creative matters regarding <strong>Olden<\/strong> <strong>Era<\/strong>, adding to the guidance the team already receives from <strong>Ubisoft<\/strong> as the IP holder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is a great pleasure to see the world I have built all those years ago thrive and be a part of so many people\u2019s memories,\u201d says <strong>Caneghem<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m very glad to be able to contribute to it once again and walk this road with all of you who made <strong>Might and Magic<\/strong> into the legendary series it is today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<strong>Jon<\/strong> is an incredible, talented man and a true legend for all the fans of the franchise, whose craftsmanship inspired me to be where I am,\u201d says <strong>Unfrozen<\/strong> CEO <strong>Denis<\/strong> <strong>Fedorov<\/strong>. \u201cWe are very pleased that Jon accepted our proposition to become an honorary creative advisor for <strong>Unfrozen<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era \u2014 Jon Van Caneghem teams up with Unfrozen!\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdrEvUnps6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re big Heroes of Might and Magic fans here at Retro News and have been following the release of the latest title, Olden Era. We gave the demo a try and were immensely impressed with how the game is shaping up, ready for its release later this year. The latest announcement from developer Unfrozen is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[188,189,190,191],"class_list":["post-30619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection","tag-heroes-of-might-and-magic","tag-jon-van-caneghem","tag-olden-era","tag-unfrozen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}