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Sega's fifth Make War Not Love event lets you play a bunch of PC strategy titles to win free games
Endless Space 2! Total War: Warhammer 2! More!
UPDATE: Oops! This story originally stated that Endless Space 2, Total War: Warhammer 2, Dawn of War 3, and Company of Heroes 2 would be free to play during the Make War Not Love event - which they are not. This has since been corrected. Apologies!
Four cool games are free to play on Steam this weekend.
Relic's World War 2 real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will get a new standalone expansion called The British Forces. It's out 3rd September 2015.
The British Forces costs £9.99, but there's 20 per cent off for anyone on Steam who owns any product from the Company of Heroes franchise.
The British Forces includes 15 new units, six new commanders with unique abilities and eight new multiplayer maps.
How are Sega's video games selling?
Rome 2 breaks 1m barrier. But what about Football Manager, Sonic and CoH2?
Sega has released its financial results for the year ending 31st March 2014, and so we get some firm figures for its video game slate.
Company of Heroes 2 returns to Western Front
Standalone multiplayer DLC offers two new factions.
Company of Heroes 2 is returning to the Second World War's western battleground with new standalone multiplayer DLC that offers two new factions - the US Forces and the German Oberkommando West - alongside eight new maps.
EGXRelic to talk Company of Heroes' future at EGX Rezzed
Developer session next Friday promises "first details of the next phase of COH2".
Relic Entertainment will be hosting a special developer session at EGX Rezzed next Friday where the studio plans to talk about future plans for the Company of Heroes franchise.
DLC at stake as Total War takes on Company of Heroes
Both Rome 2 and COH2 are half-price as well.
Sega's Valentine's Day promotion for Rome 2: Total War and Company of Heroes 2 has downloadable content at stake.
Saints Row 4 PC and Company of Heroes 2 are free to play this weekend
And at least half off to buy.
Steam's current free weekend offering is rather enticing with the delightfully goofy - and disarmingly sophisticated - open world adventure Saints Row 4 along with World War 2 strategy game Company of Heroes 2 being free to play between now and Sunday at 9pm GMT.
Company of Heroes 2 gets both paid and free DLC today
The first game gets some added Steam features too.
Sega's World War 2 strategy sequel, Company of Heroes 2, is receiving a couple of free maps, the Southern Fronts paid DLC, and Steam Workshop integration for its user-created maps made from World Builder today.
The Company of Heroes 2 Victory at Stalingrad premium downloadable content launches next week, Sega has announced.
Company of Heroes 2 gets free content next week
Includes World Builder, two new maps and four commanders.
Relic Entertainment's popular RTS Company of Heroes 2 will receive a free update entitled Turning Point on 12th November.
Sega "investigating concerns" after Russian distributor pulls Company of Heroes 2
"We are taking this issue very seriously."
Sega is looking into concern around real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 after its Russian distributor pulled it from sale.
Relic remasters classic Company of Heroes map Langres for CoH 2
Now called Langreskaya, comes with an Eastern Front twist.
Relic has added classic Company of Heroes map Langres to Company of Heroes 2.
Langres, created for CoH 1 as part of a map design competition, was one of the most popular maps for the real-time strategy game. Sega said today it's enjoyed over 3.2 million matched and 1.2 million hours of play time.
Now, Relic has remastered the map in both traditional summer and new winter variations for Company of Heroes 2, which is set in the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Langreskaya, as it's now known, has been patched into the game for free, and includes new houses and hay barrels. It's available in 1v1 and 2v2 in custom games and on 1v1 in automatch.
Sega is suing bankrupt publisher THQ for £630,000 over Company of Heroes 2 pre-orders on Steam.
Company of Heroes 2 open beta begins today
Carry progression and unlocks into release version.
The Company of Heroes 2 open beta begins today and runs until 18th June, Sega has announced.
It includes the World War 2 real-time strategy game's multiplayer mode, with competitive and co-op play, on six maps. You'll also have access to the first 45 levels of the game's progression and bulletin system.
You'll retain all progression and unlocks earned in the open beta if you buy the game within the first 60 days of launch and play it on the same Steam account as the beta.
EGXTotal War: Rome 2 and Company of Heroes 2 playable at Rezzed next month
Here come the games.
Rezzed, The PC and Indie Games Show returns for a second year this June 22nd-23rd at The NEC building in Birmingham. And now the first playable games have been confirmed.
Relic unveils Company of Heroes 2 Theater of War
To fire or not to fire, that is the question.
Relic Entertainment has unveiled the Theater of War mode for World War 2 real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2.
It's a series of additional single-player and co-op challenges and missions set on the Eastern Front. Each revolves around battles from a particular year of the war, and features unique units and special abilities that reflects the strategy used by the armies at the time.
Company of Heroes 2 comes with the Theater of War 1941 pack, which features Soviet and German missions (each faction has nine unique missions included). At a recent event we played a number of these missions. One saw us defending a control point against increasingly powerful waves of German attacks. The other challenged us to destroy a number of German encampments dotted across the map within a set time limit.
Company of Heroes 2 will expand with an extra mini-campaign for people who pre-order the game, new publisher Sega has announced.
Company of Heroes 2 delayed to June 2013
Extra time to help make game better.
World War 2 real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 launches on PC on 25th June in North America and Europe, Sega has announced.
Sega and Relic and the whereabouts of the Warhammer 40,000 IP
It sounds promising but it's not set in lead.
Sega sent a press release overnight about its Relic acquisition, and seemed to suggest it had acquired the Warhammer 40,000 IP as well.
THQ is no more. This is where its assets went
UPDATE: Platinum Games is interested in Darksiders.
Update #4: Does IP changing hands equal upheaval? Does upheaval equal game delay? Obsidian's South Park: Stick of Truth was due in March. Is it still? "It's too soon to say," Ubisoft told me this afternoon. "We'll have more details to share about plans for specific games soon."
THQ auction rumours: Relic to Sega, Volition/Saints Row to Koch, South Park to Ubisoft
Update: sale hearing pushed to 8pm UK time.
Update: It sounds like proceedings may be delayed. The auction is still going and the hearing could start this evening at 8pm UK time rather than at 5pm. That information comes from an investor (@DDInvesting) who seems reliable.
Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer trailer shows Russians and Germans going at it
1V1, 2V2, 3V3 and 4V4.
THQ has released a new trailer for World War 2 real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 showing multiplayer for the first time.
The video, below, shows the Russians and Germans going at it. Multiple units are revealed across both factions.
The video also confirms that the Relic Entertainment RTS features one versus one, two versus two, three versus three and four versus four multiplayer game modes.
Trailer for Company of Heroes film starring Vinnie Jones released
Should grab you by the balls.
Vinnie Jones - Wimbledon Football Club's biggest star since John Fashanu - returns to the big screen in the new Company of Heroes movie.
Filming started earlier this year in Bulgaria and now UFO Productions is ready to share a trailer.
It's not that bad; it's a rousing tale of a troop of soldiers caught behind enemy lines after World War 2's Battle of the Bulge - Hitler's last punch. Cue heroics and camaraderie.
New Company of Heroes 2 trailer goes boom
New gameplay from a certain point of view.
THQ has released a new trailer for Company of Heroes 2, the Relic Entertainment-developed real-time strategy game due out on PC March 2013.
CoH2 is set in the Eastern Front during World War 2 and runs on Relic's Essence 3 game engine. You play the Russians as they battle against the German invasion.
THQ will be hoping Company of Heroes 2 pulls in the punters. The beleaguered publisher recently fended off a default on its credit facility with US bank Wells Fargo, reaching an agreement that means development on its upcoming games can continue.
THQ in talks with a potential financial sponsor but threat of liquidation remains
CFO quits, agreement with bank extends to Jan 2013.
THQ, the embattled up for sale publisher of Saints Row and Darksiders, has entered into a forbearance agreement with Wells Fargo Capital Finance to protect itself from defaulting on its credit facility.
Metro: Last Light and Company of Heroes 2 due in March
South Park: The Stick of Truth pushed back to Q2 2013.
THQ announced delays of several of its most anticipated titles in its latest quarterly financial report.
EGXCompany of Heroes 2 beta access for Eurogamer Expo attendees
Plus more details on what you can play (for the first time in the world) this weekend.
Back when we revealed that you would be able to play Company of Heroes 2 at this year's Eurogamer Expo, we promised that everyone who played it (or attended the developer session on Saturday at 2.30pm) would get "a special gift".
Today we're very happy to reveal that the special gift will be... a unique Steam code that grants you beta access to Company of Heroes 2! There will be a closed beta phase at some point in the future, and your code will get you into that.
THQ and Relic have also told us that those of you who play the game at the Expo will be going hands-on with "the Rzhev Meatgrinder".
Company of Heroes 2 pre-order bonuses and Collector's Edition revealed
New skins, beta access, Command Pass.
Company of Heroes 2 publisher THQ has revealed a series of pre-order incentives for Relic's upcoming PC real-time strategy game due early next year.
Company of Heroes dev hiring for free-to-play project
Relic requires designer has five years experience in the free-to-play market.
Company of Heroes developer Relic is making preparations for a free-to-play model.
EGXWorld-first hands-on with Company of Heroes 2 at Eurogamer Expo
Plus Relic developer session and surprise gift for everyone who plays the game.
Yes, we're back! After a brief hiatus for Gamescom (it seems only fair to let them have their day in the sun), we're resuming announcements for this year's Eurogamer Expo.
Company of Heroes 2's dynamic weather system will freeze your ass off
Winter is coming.
Company of Heroes 2 will debut innovative weather simulating technology via developer Relic Entertainment's new Essence Engine 3.0 and its aptly named ColdTech system, publisher THQ has announced.
First Company of Heroes 2 trailer goes over the top
Welcome to the Eastern Front.
The first trailer for hotly-anticipated RTS sequel Company of Heroes 2 has just marched out of the THQ barracks.
It's heavy on scene-setting bluster and light on anything approximating actual in-game footage. Check it out below.
Still, you shouldn't need a trailer to get excited for a follow-up to the Relic-developed 2006 original. It was an absolute barnstormer of a game.
Company of Heroes 2 will avoid "sensitive issues" of Eastern Front - Relic
"It's about the troops on the battlefield. It's about their stories."
Real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will avoid the "sensitive issues" of the Eastern Front by focusing more on the soldiers on the ground than the politics of their leaders, developer Relic has said.
THQ delays South Park: The Game, ditches Devil's Third
Reveals Saints Row, UFC sales, Company of Heroes 2 post-launch DLC.
THQ has delayed South Park: The Game to the fourth quarter of its 2013 financial year.
THQ confirms Company of Heroes 2
First details, screenshot from RTS sequel.
THQ has confirmed PC RTS Company of Heroes 2 for an early 2013 release.
As reported last week, it moves the action to the Eastern Front, tasking you with guiding Russia's Red Army to victory against invading Nazi forces.
Dawn of War studio Relic is once again at the helm, and is building the game with its proprietary Essence 3.0 Engine. New features include something called Dynamic Battle Tactics, enhanced environmental destruction, new Commander Abilities and a considerable graphical upgrade over the 2006 original.