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The Last Stand is upcoming  multiplayer mode for Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II that will be a free download for players of the strategy title.

GameSpy got a hands-on preview, and the site says that two players will be controlling Heroes fighting off waves of enemies.

There is loads more than that through the link, along with a couple nice screens for it.

No word on when it can be expected, but word has it that it may be sometime in October.

Relic will be showing the new mode off at PAX 2009 next weekend, so hopefully we will know more then.

Eurogamer France a video of it. You should watch it.

Relic has released more information regarding the upcoming patch for Dawn of War II.

Patch 1.3 will include new abilities, armor, wargear and weapons

The new scout armor provides a burst of speed to squads facing melee attacks, while new a weapon called the Roar of Revelation, is a shotgun that stuns and causes knockbacks from stealth.

A new sword, Ardent Wrath, dishes out 52 damage-per-second and can stun enemies with a charge attack. There’s also a new ability for the Dreadnaught assault cannon.

Cool stuff.

Via LA Examiner.

Extensive patch notes are through the link, but it mainly boils down to new multiplayer maps and bug fixes.

The Dawn Of War 2 community site says the update is currently in testing at Microsoft and should be released within a few days of launch.

Bad things? Leaderboards and player stats will be reset when it goes live due to formatting changes.

The game’s out on February 20.

THQ has just dropped us a line announcing that the Dawn of War II early beta – Soulstorm owners only – is now live.

If you meet the criteria and fancy having a go then hit here for all the details.

However, if you don’t own Dawn of War Soulstorm and are too measly to fork out for now that Steam has knocked 75 percent of the price, Eurogamer is giving away beta as of this weekend. Full details of that can be found here.

Through the links with you.

By Mike Bowden

In lieu of the Dawn of War II beta in February, Steam is offering THQ and Relic’s Dawn of War – Soulstorm at a 75 percent discount.

Remember, that all Soulstorm owners get early beta access, so there’s even more incentive in shelling out some coppers on this old classic.

If you need reminding of how awesome the RTS looks, then hit the link for the latest footage.

By Mike Bowden

Over on THQ’s site you can see a rather super looking new Dawn of War II gameplay video showing the Tyranid race.

The amount of sprites on screen, the complete array of colour, all running at a rock solid frame rate is really rather impressive we hope you’ll agree.

If Relic’s strategy slayer is your cup of tea, then you’ll be pleased to know that the Dawn of War II beta starts at the end of the month.

Now go watch.

By Mike Bowden

Relic has revealed the details of how and when you can get access to the Dawn of War II beta.

The beta will be made available through Steam and if you’re a proud Dawn of War: Soulstorm you can get in as early as January 21. If not, then you’ll have to wait a week until the 28th.

The beta will let you play as any of Dawn of War II’s four races – Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, Tyranids – and includes five multiplayer maps.

So there you go.

Thanks, Destructoid.

Update: Watch two off-screen gameplay footage movies after the break.

By Mike Bowden

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THQ has revealed the minimum and recommended specifications for the superb looking Real Time Strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.

The specs are:

Minimum Requirements

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
• 1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
• A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) – Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent
• 5.5 GB of Hard Drive space

Recommended

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
• AMD Athlon 64×2 4400+ or any Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2 GB RAM (XP and Vista)
• A 256MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) – Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900, or equivalent
• 5.5 GB of Hard Drive space

Dawn of War II will be available February 23.

By Mike Bowden

THQ’s posted a new Dawn of War II movie, giving yet more reasons why the Relic RTS should be tip top of your list of PC games for the start of next year.

After the break. Looks awesome. Double awesome, probably.

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Upgrade. Upgrade. Must have new graphics card. Relic’s released footage of multiplayer Dawn of War II and it’s the most exciting thing in the world. Ever.

Here. Out early next year. If you’re not childishly hyperactive about this there’s something wrong with you.

Listen to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II lead designer, Jonny Ebbert, talk you through the varies abilities your squad will have: their use of cover, how they relate to the game world and lots more, all after the break.

It’s shaping up to be rather good we think. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is out Q1, last we heard.

By Mike Bowden

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According to this IGN piece, THQ Australia’s advertising for “videogame development talent across all disciplines to work on an action game for Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 based on the popular Warhammer 40,000 universe from Games Workshop.”

That’s clear enough. The ad appeared on Tsumea this week, and says the firm’s Brisbane-based studio is looking for a Lead Artist, Lead Animator, Environment Artist, Animator, Senior Designer, Audio Designer, Engine programmer, Game Programmer and QA Lead.

No detail on the game’s given by the job ad, but THQ Studio Australia’s website says that: “We are currently looking for people to work on a next-gen brutal, intimate melee combat game using a world-class brand.”

Want to get brutal in Australia? Now you can.

THQ’s put out a new Dawn of War II trailer, presumably as part of its Q1 financial release last night. You can be excited about space marines getting nailed by eldar. We’ll allow it. Take a look.

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According to this IGN piece, RTS hottie Dawn of War II is to use Games for Windows Live.

The info’s from the game’s community site. Take a look.

Dawn of War II’s out next year.

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.

THQ’s officially announced RTS sequel Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.

The game’s being developed exclusively for PC and is powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2.0.

And for those of you that bought the recent Soustorm add-on for the original are in for a treat: you’ll be able to get in on the as yet undated multiplayer beta. From the release:

In addition, THQ is pleased to announce that gamers purchasing copies of the recently released Warhammer(R) 40,000(TM): Dawn of War(R) – Soulstorm(TM) will be able to participate in an invitation-only multiplayer beta program for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II set to take place at a future date.

“The original Dawn of War and its subsequent standalone expansions have established the series as one of the industry’s leading RTS franchises,” said Brad Carraway, vice president, global brand management, THQ. “Dawn of War II will re-define RTS gaming to gamers worldwide, delivering brutal frontline action and tactics, and allowing players to get straight to the action with unprecedented fast-paced RTS gameplay and a full co-op campaign, all in stunning cinematic detail.”

Full thing after the link.

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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.

THQ boss Brian Farrell, speaking in an investor call following the release of third quarter financials last night, said he’s seen a build of the previously announced Warhammer 40K MMO running at Vigil Games and said he was “pleasantly surprised” at the state of the game, adding “so far, so good”. Farrell noted that the title was some way off. No release date has been given for this as yet.