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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution - The Last Standalone might just be longest name for a video game release for 2011, but it's also a new development for Relic and THQ, taking the very popular Last Stand mode from its real time strategy game and publishing it as a lower priced stand alone expe... |
21 April 2011
07:19 GMT |
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Publisher THQ and developer Relic have announced that they will be launching a content pack for their strategy title Dawn of War II: Retribution, specifically aimed at the Last Stand mode, set to arrive on the PC on April 6. The update does not seem important at first sight, adding twelve new Achievements linked to ... |
22 March 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Relic, as the developer, and THQ, as the publisher, have recently launched the second expansion for Dawn of War II, called Retribution, which introduced some more traditional real-time strategy elements to a series that surprised everyone in 2009 when it eliminated based building and unit recruitment from the single-... |
17 March 2011
10:58 GMT |
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When Dawn of War II first came out, more than two whole years ago, a lot of the people that played the original were disappointed with the product that developer Relic and publisher THQ delivered and basically said that this was no longer a real-time strategy game.
The change was pretty big, focusing on just four ... |
11 March 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I cannot yet fully give up Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution although I finished the campaign with two races and played quite a bit of multiplayer with the new standalone expansion.
I still have the Orks to use in all the missions, enjoying their mindless humor and weapon desc... |
11 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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I played my first campaign in Dawn of War II: Retribution using the Normal difficulty and I still regret that decision, especially given the fact that I first chose to complete the game using the Space Marines, and it might be a while before I forget about the missions so that I can try them out again.Unfortunately, ... |
10 March 2011
18:21 GMT |
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There are four heroes you can use in all of the campaigns included in the Retribution expansion for Dawn of War II, except when playing the rather disappointing Tyranid narrative where just one will have do to, along with his extra capable minions.
Each of them has three advancement tracks, one linked to health an... |
9 March 2011
10:51 GMT |
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If there's one race that always feels like it’s getting the worst of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, it's the Imperial Guard. There are a lot of them but most are badly trained, ready to flee at the first sight of xenos and easy prey for all manners of enemies of the Imperium.
Dawn of War II managed to er... |
9 March 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Retribution is the third expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, the strategy game from developer Relic and publisher THQ that gave a hugely needed shot in the arm to the strategy genre way back in 2009.
The big addition coming in the standalone release is the fact that six whole races (Space Marines, Chao... |
7 March 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Warhammer 40,000 has never been better represented in a video game than in the Dawn of War strategy series, and, when developer Relic and publisher THQ announced that the second expansion, Retribution, would be receiving a beta stage, a lot of people jumped at the chance to see how the game plays now, how the Imperia... |
28 February 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: The big launch of the previous week was Killzone, the first-person shooter that is exclusive to the PlayStation 3 home console from Sony, and I plan to spend most of my weekend battling the orange-eyed Helghast and try to find a way out of their planet.The game, as my Quick Look shows, is a clear i... |
25 February 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: Test Drive Unlimited 2 was one of the strangest games I had to review in the last few years, delivering an experience which was disjointed but enjoyable on some levels, and after writing a review I don't plan to ever return to island driving. This weekend I will spend my gaming time with the ... |
18 February 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Danny Bilson, who is the executive vice president of core games at publisher THQ, has announced that the developers at Relic are working on a new real-time strategy title and that an official announcement about it will be made at some point during August.
A Twitter message from the executive says, “@gogators... |
17 February 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: Dead Space 2 is done and buried, likely to only rise as a Necromorph when the third installment in the series is finally announced by Electronic Arts, and there's still a small gap until the launch of Bulletstorm, the alternative take on the first-person shooter.
So this weekend I plan to f... |
11 February 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: This week has seen the launch of the Druids expansion for King Arthur – The Role Playing Wargame from Neocore Games and Paradox Interactive, which we have already reviewed on Softpedia.
This weekend I plan to play through the original and the Saxons expansion a bit to get a full picture of... |
21 January 2011
16:31 GMT |
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What we know Warhammer 40,000 is the kind of intellectual property that thrives in the world of video games, with Relic delivering a series of games and expansions which are perfect for those who are interested in the universe and the constant battles between wildly varied races while not having the time or money to... |
19 January 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Publisher THQ and developer Relic have announced that their upcoming strategy title Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution is set to get a multiplayer beta stage, allowing fans of the series to jump in, play some matches and then report their experience to the companies so that the final version of the ... |
19 January 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: It would be nice for publishers to spread their releases around a bit more over the months of the year, giving sleepy gamers something new and exciting to play with in January and sparing them the torrent of new high profile releases that are coming in March and during the fall of the year.
But ... |
14 January 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Video games publisher THQ has announced that it is adopting a new main logo for the company, one which is set to show off the new strategic vision from the company and its commitment to values like innovation and quality.
The new logo, which can be seen in the screenshot attached to this article, has sleeker lines... |
13 January 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Publisher THQ has announced that it has launched pre-orders for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution: Collector's Edition, the only package linked to the new expansion which will allow gamers to get complete access to all the bonus wargear for all the six playable races in the upcoming game.
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11 January 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: December is here and thankfully there's a bit of breathing room for all the gamers who are following the latest releases.I am still playing Gran Turismo 5, planning to do a bit of multiplayer over the weekend and take some of the cool cars out for a spin, but there's also a chance to look... |
3 December 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Relic Entertainment, the developer working on the Retribution expansion for the strategy title Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, has announced new information regarding the hero characters that players will be controlling when playing the Eldar race.The Eldar will have no less than four different heroes that can be c... |
1 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The developers at Relic have officially confirmed that the third playable race in the upcoming Retribution expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will be the dreaded Tyranids, the alien menace which threatens to destroy all sentient life in the known universe.The biological warriors, who rely on both close qu... |
19 October 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Civilization V is a great game and I have been trying to get to a Utopia based victory, which involves filling out completely a number of the trees from the Culture tab, which function in a way like the social policies of old, but with an added splash of dynamism.And, while trying again and again to get this elusive ... |
16 October 2010
09:41 GMT |
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Publisher THQ and developer Relic have launched a new teaser trailer for the Retribution expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II which shows the Eldar race in their full glory, suggesting that they will get a single player campaign alongside the Orks.The Eldar for single player seem to be locked in combat with... |
30 September 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Developer Relic has announced that it will be delivering a beta stage for its Retribution expansion for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II real time squad based strategy title in the early days of 2011 and that the new content will include support for Steamworks, the Valve developed system that allows chat, matchma... |
20 September 2010
07:01 GMT |
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This week I've been partly enjoying and partly hating R.U.S.E., the real time strategy game based in World War II created by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft, for reasons which are more thoroughly described in my review.One of the undeniable strong points of the R.U.S.E. experience has been the way it mana... |
18 September 2010
08:31 GMT |
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I'm sad to see Command & Conquer go out with a whimper. I have loved the series since I first saw a video of Kane dealing in some double crossing with Stalin. Quite a bit of time after I saw the video on a friend's computer, I did not even get to play the Red Alert branch. I did not have a PC that could act... |
1 May 2010
10:01 GMT |
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As I mentioned seven days ago, I am playing Chaos Rising, the expansion to Dawn of War II, and, after one week and about six missions, I have to say this is one of the toughest challenges I have encountered in gaming this year. During the campaign of the original title, I only wiped out my entire party, forcing me to... |
23 April 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I've never played Warhammer 40,000 with the painted figurines and the landscapes, mostly because I only discovered their existence a few years ago, and the costs for a country which is just emerging from Communism are rather prohibitive. But I loved playing around with the first Warhammer 40,0... |
16 April 2010
18:21 GMT |
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Valve Software has announced that at the end of 2009, the Steam digital distribution service reached 25 million active users, which is 25% more than at the same point in 2008. Ten million of those who are holding accounts have also created profiles for the community features of the service. It's quite an importa... |
2 February 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Usually, Game of the Year nominations and awards are given out to titles released in the last half of the year, mainly because that's when publishers put out the biggest videogames and because gamers have rather short attention spans.Thankfully, there were not that many real time strategy titles outed in 2009 an... |
28 December 2009
17:51 GMT |
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It seems that the people at Relic are satisfied enough with the success of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, which was released earlier in the year, and are preparing to launch an expansion pack for it, which will be called Chaos Rising. At the moment, the company is not offering any more information, as the big reve... |
22 September 2009
16:21 GMT |
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THQ has announced having seen videogame sales increase in the first quarter of the current fiscal year by some 77%, reaching 243.5 million dollars. The quarter, which ended on June 30, has been one of the most successful of the last few years for the publisher and responsible for that is mainly UFC 2009: Undisputed, ... |
29 July 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Relic announced even before the release date that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II would be getting extensive support after launch, and it seems to be keeping its word.Quite some months after the initial release of the title and with requested features, like native support for 2 versus 2 matches and maps, already int... |
23 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The Warhammer 40,000 setting has offered THQ some hit releases until now, as the company has used it to create two extremely good real time strategy games.Now, the publisher is interested in developing something entirely new with the official unveiling of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, an action title that will put ... |
4 June 2009
04:43 GMT |
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THQ was rumored to be creating a variety of new videogames set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Leaked footage showed an action title with quite a bit of shooting. Inside sources talked about a MMO based on the Games Workshop universe. Instead, Relic developed and created Dawn of War II, a game that blended strategy... |
28 May 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Relic has just released one impressive patch for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, the tactical/role playing game title released earlier in the year. It has been in the works for quite some time and the developer is promising that most, if not all, of the issues related to the game will be solved.The patch will autom... |
13 May 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Publisher THQ has announced having lost some 432 million dollars during the last fiscal year, which ended on March 31, and that it is seeing “challenging fiscal 2009” ahead. The company has also reported that total sales went down to 830 million dollars, from a previous value of 1.04 billion dollars. The ... |
8 May 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Relic has really stepped up to listen to what players want and to deliver on their requests when it comes to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, the title that changed the way we look at strategy games earlier in the year.The developer has just announced that it plans to offer a big update for the game that is set to c... |
6 May 2009
12:31 GMT |
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PC gaming hasn't been going through the best times in recent years, and, at least according to some analysts, it will be dying out in a matter of months or possibly years, succumbing to the popularity of consoles, which are more user friendly to gamers and, in some cases, piracy free. But the platform is still ... |
21 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II from Relic and THQ was released quite some time ago but the developers have just now put together a demo version of the game that all those interested can get through Steam, the digital distribution service offered by Valve. The demo is pretty big - a 2.5 GB download and probably quit... |
16 April 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Relic is announcing that it has just launched the 1.2.1 patch for its most recent release, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. There are quite a few changes coming in the package, which will be automatically applied to the videogame when you log into your Steam account.But the star of the 1.2.1 patch is the additi... |
14 April 2009
04:58 GMT |
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PC gaming has suffered from quite a lot of hate and disinterest from some developers and publishers due to the high piracy rate and the fact that normal retail sales aren't always as high as expected, compared to the ones from the online content distribution services. But things are still going well for the com... |
18 March 2009
03:57 GMT |
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One of the biggest releases of the first three months of 2009 is Empire: Total War from Creative Assembly and SEGA. The game blends a strategic layer, where you can take charge of the entire running of a kingdom in the XVIII century, complete with diplomatic action, espionage, research, city development and tax manag... |
14 March 2009
06:21 GMT |
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The PC platform has its own particular needs and specific titles, as a lot of PC gamers find it handier to play complex games by using the keyboard and a mouse. Strategy games are among the aforementioned titles, which, although they have appeared on consoles, are better played with mappable keyboard filled with keys... |
10 March 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Strategy titles have had a bad reputation lately, as they cater to a niche audience, as opposed to first-person shooters, which are targeted to a broader segment of the public. This is a very sad thing, but, thanks to the newer titles, its seems that Real Time Strategy (RTS) games are beginning to become as popular a... |
9 March 2009
01:27 GMT |
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THQ is one of those medium publishers that seem to have been hit the hardest by the wave of the worldwide economic crisis, which swept over the videogaming industry. At one point in its existence, THQ was said to be just a little smaller than Activision but now, after the merger with Blizzard, there's a big gap ... |
9 March 2009
01:04 GMT |
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In the United Kingdom, the videogame charts are seeing a bit of a shake up as the first big releases of 2009 make their appearance. Wii Fit, which seemed glued to the top spot, has fallen in the charts, allowing Killzone 2 to take first place.The Guerrilla Games developed shooter, which is exclusively offered on the ... |
5 March 2009
02:45 GMT |
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PC gaming has been subject to quite a lot of controversy in recent months, as piracy has been on the lips of quite a few developers and other industry analysts, as they released lists of countries that indulge piracy and where the most users who tend to pirate new video games or software releases are found. But that... |
3 March 2009
16:51 GMT |
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