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Company of Heroes Online is closing down for good in just a few weeks, but nevertheless we’ve received two new maps to play with in the meantime. That’s dedication – kudos, Relic.

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THQ Core Games boss Danny Bilson’s confirmed that the new Relic RTS will be announced in August.

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The Company of Heroes Online open beta is drawing to a close, but nobody seems very happy about it. A post on the game’s official website contains ominous hints that the multiplayer battler will not see the light of full release.

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Company of Heroes Online developer Relic has set up the Brian Wood Memorial Game Internship.

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THQ’s announced that Warhammer 40K: Space Marine will be coming to PC, as well as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Update: The official press release on this went live this morning. We’ve added it to the bottom of the post, since the source link seems to have gone dead.

Original: THQ will release its free-to-play version of WWII RTS Company of Heroes in the US, says VentureBeat.

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If you still need convincing that Dawn of War II add-on Chaos Rising is all kinds of awesome, hit the link for the game’s last two explodo-trailers and a list of high review scores. Pretty simple, right?

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Dawn of War II’s getting a new play mode in The Last Stand today – watch a video on how it works here.

Basically, you’ve got a marine team in an arena and you have to survive against increasingly tough waves of baddies. It’s got leaderboards, “arcade” style play, and so on.

Patch notes here.

THQ’s put out the first teaser movie for Dawn of War II expansion Chaos Rising. Get it after the break.

The add-on slots the Chaos Space Marines into the RTS as a new playable race.

The update also includes new single-player and co-op campaigns, a level cap increase from 20 to 30 and new gear.

No date just yet, however.

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THQ has announced that Relic Entertainment’s RTS expansion, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor has gone Gold and will be available from April 9.

Shacknews writes that CoH: ToV is a “stand-alone expansion pack, Tales of Valor adds three campaigns and three new multiplayer modes, along with new maps and units, to the studio’s WWII strategy series.”

A bit more through the link.

THQ has announced that Relic’s WWII strategy series, Company of Heroes, will continue with a new “chapter”, Tales of Valor.

This new title boasts three new single-player campaigns and brand new multiplayer modes to boot. It’s a standalone product, apparently.

“Company of Heroes is one of the most critically acclaimed RTS series of all time,” said THQ vice president Peter Matiss.

“With Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Relic Entertainment is delivering an all-new, standalone chapter in the franchise and continues to push the boundaries of innovation and quality in the genre.”

No release date was given. Good news though: maybe some was needed from THQ tonight.

Thanks, Boomtown.

By Mike Bowden

And here it is. There’s not much on it at the moment, apart from a few shots and a “coming soon” notice in the video section. Still want, though.

Bet PC Gamer’s happy. Belgian magazine PC Gameplay’s preview of Dawn of War 2′s been internetalised properly now by the wacky kids at Neogaf, following a few sketchy details this morning and what looks like the game’s first teaser movie. Here’s what to expect from Relic’s next-gen RTS.

• Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimised for DX10 and multicore support.
• It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
• Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
• While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH it won’t be “CoH in space”, while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
• Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
• Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn’t known).
• Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
• More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
• Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); “Let’s pimp out squads with cool stuff!”, you will see these items in-game as well of course.
• You’ll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
• You can’t control more than six squads! I am not sure if this is campaign-only but the preview made it sound like it wasn’t.
• The squads are going to be a lot more interesting than before though.
• A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don’t treat them like cannon fodder.
• There is a lot more interesting commentary from the units as well; if your SM commander is holding a Thunder Hammer f.e. then the opponent will specifically comment on that, Ork Warchief saying something like “Ooh, nice hammer, but mine is bigger!”. The warchief will say something else if the commander doesn’t have the hammer.
• The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you’ll get a view of an underlying planet and you’ll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
• Certain reward items won’t be useable at once in the campaign, so they’ll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
• Dreadnought can now also trample Orkz.
• No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
• Development team of 55 people has been working on it since September 2006.
• Release in early 2009 or later.