As reported at InsideMacGames.com, Freeverse has promised a “Big Week” of software announcements. One is tempted to speculate that testing for HOMMV has been progressing rapidly and that an announcement on a release date is immanent. Perhaps a little Cider is adding to the Christmas cheer?

Whatever guesses we make about that, today’s announcement that the Legions arena expansion pack is being released as a cheap digital download is even more encouraging. Mac ports have a terrible history of supporting expansions within any reasonable amount of time, if at all (it took years to see all the CivIII expansions, for example, and the Sims expansions are delayed by months). I fancy that Freeverse’s endorsement of digital distribution at a very reasonable price could spell good things for potential HOMMV expansions getting ported, especially where Freeverse needs to maintain patch-parity anyway and/or where Cider makes patch and expansion pack updating a snap to convert.