Okay, here's a vague reassurance to quell a vague rumour.
Hero Games is not in any kind of financial trouble. However,
they have made an arrangement with another games company (whose
name escapes me, which is why I said this was vague) that will
see the other company looking after the technical chores of
production of materials and product distribution. This can
only be a good thing, because Hero has always had pretty awful
production standards. First releases of game books have always
been rife with errors that one proof-reading pass would have
caught. If the four Hero Game heroes concentrate on game design
and leave the technical stuff to a slicker more knowledgeable
group, everybody will be better off.
Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo