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Relic artist Matt Kuzminski has posted a look at the multiplayer DLC pack coming in a future update to Dawn of War II: Retribution in which the Ultramarines will be the focus.

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THQ has released screenshots for Retribution, its second stand-alone expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.

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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 announced that There is Only War, the next Dawn of War II update, will go into open beta in July.

It will include balancing, eight multiplayer maps, the ability to “spectate custom multiplayer matches” and some basic improvements.

The beta will be open to all Dawn of War II users and an exact date, along with more announcements, is expected soon.

More through Shack.

To celebrate Dawn of War II’s release this Friday, Eurogamer ‘s giving away 500 sets of Wargear.

The site will award 100 per day away to the first readers to log in to get their key.

The DLC encompasses all of the pre-order offers, including the Chapter Command, Destroyer, Sniper, Sternguard and Vanguard.

Keys are all out for today, and because of a technical issue with THQ, the rest have been postponed until next week, starting the February 23.

Full details thought the link.

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.