Heroes of Might and Magic 3 will out live us all

GOG’s Preservation has encased the classic into crystal

With the ever increasing doubt and worry being cast around ownership and preservation of games the Poland based and Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher series creator, CD Projekt Red owned store front Good Old Games or as it’s commonly known as GOG looks to ensure that no game is left to the annuls of time by focusing on ensuring that games are playable on the latest hardware as once purchased the game is yours to keep.

GOG as of this year introduced the “Dreamlist” a voting site where users can vote on games that they would like to see appear on the storefront, notably the list contains games that never had a PC release. Some have theorised that this is so developers/publishers can see a statistical number of people that want classics like Silent Hill, Legend of Dragoon and Resident Evil Code: Veronica X to make their way to PC and that the developers or publishers will consider re-releasing them.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is seen as one of the greatest strategy games ever to have been created. Initially developer by New World Computing and published by The 3DO Company the now Ubisoft owned series is viewed as the cream of the crop in it’s respected genre, and with great reason too. Having initially been released in 1999 for Windows, Linux and Macintosh the series is held dearly in the hearts of many gamers worldwide.

The team at GOG have gone one step further today with their preservation by encasing the afformentioned classic into a 5D optical crystal coin which has been produced by SPhotonix which they say is “the world’s most durable data storage medium”. First of all I want to mention how much I love this, it very much looks like something that you would slot into an arcade machine and what doesn’t provoke the idea of gaming than an arcade machine? It’s stated that the coin would “survive placed in an oven, being buried for a million years and is an artifact designed to outlive us all”.

Congratulations to the GOG team on something so unique and fun, it raises awareness of ownership and preservation greatly and to many people would be a fantastic collectors item to immortalise their favourite games for millions of years to come. The video GOG has put out going over it can be viewed below!