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Da boyz ar' back in town!
A Dutch/Belgian gaming magazin has released a preview of Dawn of War 2. I would show you the scans of the magazine but that's illegal due to copyright laws. Here is a list of features that have been observed in the preview. That's observed, not confirmed.
- 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 2005.
- Release in early 2009 or later.
Source: http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=187006
I REPEAT! DO NOT POST LINKS TO SCANS OF THE MAGAZINE OR BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN!
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In the latest edition of PC Gamer UK there was a special teaser for the next issue (due to be released on April 10th). It shows a silhouted figure against the background of a rising sun and below are the words "Secret.Exclusive-Are you ready for A New Dawn?"
The figure appears to be a space marine with a powerfist and either a plasma pistol or storm bolter. This suggests that it is a terminator and what appear to be robes on his lower body suggest that he is from the Dark Angel chapter.
Could this finally be the Dawn of War 2 announcement? We'll have to wait and see but signs are good as Buggo (Relic employee and frequent visiter to the Relic News Forums) has kept quiet so far. This is a good sign as Relic employees are not allowed to talk about upcoming products without permission.
I personally believe that there is a reasonably good chance that this is Dawn of War 2. More news will follow soon. 
EA is everywhere these days and soon you can play CnC ANYWHERE..... yea you guessed it, CnC 3 is coming to a mobile phone near you 
Apparantly EA tried to leave Kane out of the loop on their EA mobile project and he's not happy about it.....
There's also some new vids for Kanes Wrath
Here's Gamespots Soulstorm Preview
Not so long ago, Gamespot introduced new rules and regulations with relation to Union Board Thread Games.It is imperative that we follow these new rules and properly deal with a situation quickly and effectively.
Read the whole thing here. (Second post)
Come check this out.
EA has announced Red Alert 3.
Here's some info about Halo: Homefront and the teaser that goes with it.
Imagine fighting for your races survival as the always brave United Nations Space Corps Defense Force (or UNSCDF for short.) or overpowering your foes as the dreaded Covenant.
Relive key battles in the Halo-universe. Battle above Reach, Earth (First and Second Battle) Installation 04, Harvest and more!
Official Homepage:
Halo-hf.brokenlinestudios.net
Official Forums:
Brokenlinestudios.net
Contact:
admin@brokenlinestudios.net
If the trailer isn't showing right or there's no sound that's just GS doing what it's good at
The Dawn of Steel mod has finally been made avaliable for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.
Take command of the Armageddon Steel Legion as they fight for the God-Emperor!
Features include:
- The Stormblade
- The Stormsword
- Salamanders
- Armoured Fist squads
- Commissar Yarrick!!!!!
- Stormtroopers
And many more. This mod is very well done. All units have their own animations, models and voices. This is also an improvement over the Winter Assault version so even if you already have it for WA, it's still worth a look.
http://dawnofwar.filefront.com/file/Dawn_of_Steel_Steel_Legion_Mod;85417x#1443153
Check out these new tools for modding World In Conflict!
The secondrace for DoW: Soulstorm has been announced and as I and most of the MWU anticipated it's the Sisters of Battle 
The full update can be read here 
The day has come! EB is finally out of beta and is ready to be enjoyed by all Rome:Total War fans.
There are so many new features that there are too many for me to fit in here so here is a link to the EB site and the announcement page.
There isn't much RTS info out, atleast not on GS
but here are the RTSs that are at TGS:
- World in Conflict
- AoEIII: Asian Dynasties
it's nothing really
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World In Conflict recieves a glowing review from Gamespot.
This new feature I'm launching is to showcase RTSs that have gone more or less unnoticed both released and unreleased once
In this first addition we have:
- Genesis Rising
- Shattered Suns
- War Leaders: Clash of Nations
- Seven Kingdoms: Conquest
For more in-depth info see the inside
That's right folks, a new Dawn of War expansion is on the way! The name has been revealed as "Soulstorm" and will also introduce the Dark Eldar as a faction! So far that's all that's known about it and it has appeared on relic news. There are rumours that Relic will not be working on it though and will hand it to another developer.
Links:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/34322/Dawn-of-War-Soulstorm-Revealed
