- Franchise Hockey Manager 7 is available NOW! - 16 December 2020
We are delighted to announce that Franchise Hockey Manager 7 is available worldwide today! Featuring dozens of new features and key improvements driven by our incredible community, FHM 7 will delight hockey fans across the globe. As the only NHL®-licensed PC hockey strategy game on the market, its authenticity is unmatched. Pick it up today! Want to see some of the action? Watch our brand new trailer for Franchise Hockey Manager 7 right here:
- Announcing Franchise Hockey Manager 7! - 3 December 2020
We are delighted to announce that Franchise Hockey Manager 7 will be available worldwide on December 16, 2020! Featuring dozens of new features and key improvements driven by our incredible community, FHM 7 is poised to delight hockey fans across the globe. As the only NHL®-licensed PC hockey strategy game on the market, its authenticity is unmatched. Achieve the everlasting goal of carving your name on the Stanley Cup®! Watch every moment of every game unfold in real time, make adjustments, attack weaknesses of your opponents, and make all the calls to push your team to glory. Put it on your Steam Wishlist today! Check out the trailer!
- It's our biggest sale ever! 90% off FHM 6 - just $1.99! - 26 November 2020
The Autumn Sale is here! Franchise Hockey Manager 6 is on sale for 90% off - just $1.99 from today until December 1 at 1 PM ET! Join the community today to see why FHM 6 is the best-reviewed, best-playing, and best-selling version of our hockey franchise yet! FHM 6 offers unprecedented depth and strategy as you run one of any of thousands of hockey organizations around the world. From the executive suites of NHL powerhouses to the back offices of minor league and international clubs around the entire world, FHM 6 defines sports strategy excellence.
- Halloween Sale! Big savings on FHM 6 - just $9.99!!! - 29 October 2020
The Halloween Sale is here! Franchise Hockey Manager 6 is on sale for just $9.99 from today until November 2 at 1 PM ET! Join the community today to see why FHM 6 is the best-reviewed, best-playing, and best-selling version of our hockey franchise yet! FHM 6 offers unprecedented depth and strategy as you run one of any of thousands of hockey organizations around the world. From the executive suites of NHL powerhouses to the back offices of minor league and international clubs around the entire world, FHM 6 defines sports strategy excellence.
- FHM6 Hotfix, Version 6.9.87, Now Available - 3 August 2020
A new hotfix update for Franchise Hockey Manager 6, version 6.9.87, has just been released. This hotfix fixes a bug introduced in 6.9.86 that will make some existing saves unloadable and/or unstable, particularly (but not exclusively) modern games on computers with 8 GB or fewer RAM. The fix will automatically repair all existing saves.
- NHL Return to Play Sale! FHM 6 is 75% off - just $9.99!!! - 31 July 2020
The NHL is BACK! Hooray!!! To celebrate, Franchise Hockey Manager 6 is on sale for 75% off - just $9.99 - for just two weeks! Join the community today to see why FHM 6 is the best-reviewed, best-playing, and best-selling version of our hockey franchise yet! FHM 6 offers unprecedented depth and strategy as you run one of any of thousands of hockey organizations around the world - AND has just been updated with all the new Return to Play features. Rosters, schedules, and format! From the executive suites of NHL powerhouses to the back offices of minor league and international clubs around the entire world, FHM 6 defines sports strategy excellence.
- FHM6 Bonus Update, Version 6.9.86, Now Available - 31 July 2020
A bonus update for FHM6, version 6.9.86, has just been released. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. With the 2019-20 NHL season now resuming, we have a surprise bonus update for FHM6. Normally, we wouldn't be releasing an update this late in the year, but this season has been far from normal. And with the next season starting much later this year, we're going to be releasing FHM7 later than we typically do, so this should help tide everyone over until that time comes. Development of FHM7 is progressing nicely; we just hit a major development milestone this morning. However, among other things, the entire match engine is being rebuilt from the ground up, so a little extra development and testing time is a useful thing for us to have right now. There will be more…
- Summer Sale! FHM 6 is 75% off - just $9.99!!! - 25 June 2020
It's Summer Sale time! Franchise Hockey Manager 6 is on sale for 75% off - just $9.99 - from today until May 21 at July 9th at 1 PM ET! Join the community today to see why FHM 6 is the best-reviewed, best-playing, and best-selling version of our hockey franchise yet! FHM 6 offers unprecedented depth and strategy as you run one of any of thousands of hockey organizations around the world. From the executive suites of NHL powerhouses to the back offices of minor league and international clubs around the entire world, FHM 6 defines sports strategy excellence.
- Spring Sale! FHM 6 is 50% off - just $19.99!!! - 8 May 2020
It's Spring Sale time! Franchise Hockey Manager 6 is on sale for 50% off - just $19.99 - from today until May 21 at 1 PM ET! Join the community today to see why FHM 6 is the best-reviewed, best-playing, and best-selling version of our hockey franchise yet! FHM 6 offers unprecedented depth and strategy as you run one of any of thousands of hockey organizations around the world. From the executive suites of NHL powerhouses to the back offices of minor league and international clubs around the entire world, FHM 6 defines sports strategy excellence.
- FHM6 Hotfix, Version 6.8.80, Now Available - 21 April 2020
A new hotfix update for Franchise Hockey Manager 6, version 6.8.80, has just been released. This hotfix is primarily to correct some issues with historical player imports that were leading to crashes and possibly save corruption. Additionally, we included a couple of other things that could be done without risk of causing new problems. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. Changes: -fixes stability problems that were appearing after adding several players via historical import -fixed issues with historical player import that led to players getting incorrect nationalities and birthplaces -fixed crash when changing teams while looking at the profile of a retired player -the "NMC's Must Be Protected" option in the Expansion Draft setup will now work properly, i.e. it…
- FHM6 Hotfix, Version 6.8.78, Now Available - 1 April 2020
A new hotfix update for Franchise Hockey Manager 6, version 6.8.78, has just been released. This hotfix corrects a number of issues with 6.7.74 that we didn't want to leave uncorrected in the final version of FHM6. Barring the discovery of a critical problem in this version, this will be the last update for the game. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. Changes: -the later Central Scouting updates now work properly again -added a warning preventing the game from continuing (and probably crashing) if user's team is about to play a game while there are players listed in the lines who aren't dressed -fixed "not enough skaters" warning in leagues that allow 20+ skaters but don't require 4 defensive pairs -made it impossible to drag-and-drop scratched players onto a l…
- FHM Update 6.7.74 Now Available - 10 March 2020
The sixth and final post-release update for FHM6, version 6.7.74, has just been released. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. This is slightly later than anticipated, owing to a few last-minute issues we wanted to clean up, but it's now ready to go. The previous hotfix included some of the things that were originally planned for this update, so there's not much in the way of new features this time, just the post-trading-deadline roster update and a general cleanup of some lingering issues and a few newly-discovered ones. The database update is as of March 1 and covers all the playable leagues and most of the significant nonplayable ones. Yes, David Ayres is in. This will be the final update for FHM6, barring any hotfixes needed if we discover serious problems wi…
- Announcing Out of the Park Baseball 21! - 21 February 2020
Out of the Park Baseball 21 - the 21st version of the award-winning sports strategy franchise - delivers the most new features and improvements in series history! It features unprecedented depth and customization, brand-new guided experiences for newcomers and veterans, authenticity licensed by MLB and the MLBPA, and a bounty of offline and online experiences found nowhere else. Check it out today!
- FHM6 Hotfix, Version 6.6.70, Now Avaialble - 19 February 2020
A new hotfix update for Franchise Hockey Manager 6, version 6.6.70, has just been released. This hotfix is primarily to correct a problem with 6.6.68 that made games in leagues with 19-skater rosters impossible to continue, another bug that could break all the team budgets in custom games with historical finances activated, and a couple of other things we didn't want to leave unfixed for several weeks. However, unlike a typical hotfix, the problems took a while to become evident, and we'd already made a bunch of other fixes, changes, and additions by that point. So, this is really somewhere between a hotfix and a full update. One new feature we'd been planning to include in the final update in March, the ability to start a new standard game in control of a national team, is included. But it hasn't been tested extensively, so be aware that it's possible we may run into some unanticipated…
- FHM6 Update #5, Version 6.6.68, Now Available - 6 February 2020
The fifth post-release update for FHM6, version 6.6.68, has just been released. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. After adding some larger fixtures in the last two updates, we've spent more time on this one on smaller additions and fixes, and there are a lot of them; details are below. That's not to say we've completely cleared out our bug/request/wish lists, but they're probably in better shape now than they've ever been in the history of the series, so we should have the game in a nice, stable place for you as we wind up work on 6. There will be one more major update after this one (and possibly some hotfixes if serious issues are found in either); we expect to release that sometime after the NHL trading deadline (February 24). It'll likely be out a little l…
- FHM 6 is 50% off - just $19.99 - during the Honda NHL All-Star Game Sale! - 24 January 2020
To celebrate the Honda NHL All-Star Game, we're delighted to offer Franchise Hockey Manager 6 for 50% off - just $19.99! Join the community today to see what all the fuss is about, as FHM 6 offers unprecedented depth and strategy as you run one of any of thousands of hockey organizations around the world. From the executive suites of NHL powerhouses to the back offices of minor league and international clubs around the entire world, FHM 6 defines sports strategy excellence.
- 50% off Franchise Hockey Manager 6 - just $19.99! - 19 December 2019
It’s the biggest sale in company history! The NHL season is in full swing, and the World Juniors are about to capture the hearts of hockey fans all over the world. For a short time, Franchise Hockey Manager 6 is on sale for just $19.99 (50% off!). That's a huge savings on the game that defines high quality strategy. It also makes a fantastic gift for that tough-to-shop-for strategy game fan on your holiday list! So don’t wait! The sale ends January 2nd at 1 PM ET. Now’s a great time for you - and your friends - to join the Franchise Hockey Manager community.
- FHM6 Update #4, Version 6.5.63, Now Available! - 18 December 2019
The fourth post-release update for FHM6, version 6.5.63, has just been released. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. Since we've turned this update around relatively quickly while also adding some significant new features, this is a little lighter on the bug fix list than normal, although that's also a product of the list being comparatively shorter than it usually is at this point in the year. But the next update will probably swing a little more back towards cleaning up those issues as opposed to introducing new ones like we've done this time. That said, this time we have some early Christmas presents in the form of three significant new features: 1. We've added the ability to import historical players to existing games via a similar method to the player creat…
- FHM6 Update #3, Version 6.4.59, Now Available - 28 November 2019
The third post-release update for FHM6, version 6.4.59, has just been released. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. As mentioned in the last update, we're a little ahead of the game right now on the content we were planning to add via updates. The big addition in this update, user-configurable Expansion Drafts, was originally planned for the pre-Christmas update, but it was finished early, so here it is. We'll probably still refine it a bit in that update, tentatively planned the week before Christmas, but getting it done ahead of schedule should let us fit a few more new things into that one. The "autoplay screen" standings option that many people requested also made it in to this update, as did some revisions to the training screen. On the downside, there's un…
- FHM6 Update #2, Version 6.3.53, Now Available - 1 November 2019
The second post-release update for FHM6, version 6.3.53, has just been released. Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game, but some of the update's fixes may not retroactively correct certain problems in existing saves. As we did last year, now that we've dealt with the most serious bugs and the smaller ones that were simplest to fix, we'll now take a slightly longer amount of time, probably a month or so, before the next update (barring any major issues that need a hotfix before then.) That'll give us a little more time to work on some things that need a longer timeframe for coding and testing. Originally, we'd planned the first "content" update that would add some significant new features to be the pre-Christmas one, but given the state of the game at the moment we think we may be able to move a few smaller things we'd planned for that into the late November up…
