Dawn-of-War posts

Those Tyranids are nasty folk. They swarm onto a planet with all their claws and bio-engineered acid guns, dissolving everything so that the fleet can consume it and add it to the swarm. We're not too keen on becoming a mass of spikes and glistening, heaving, chitinous flesh, but in case it ever comes to that, this trailer certainly has us covered. Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Tyranids will be playable in the single-player campaign of Dawn of War 2: Retribution, this trailer doesn't really show anything new to veteran players of Dawn of War 2. But it sure does look nice, especially since it's all in-game footage!

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Microsoft's announcement of Age of Empires Online earlier this week made more than one RTS fan happy. Now Microsoft is celebrating the revival of its own RTS game franchise with a special sale at the Games For Windows web site. From now until Monday five RTS titles will have price cuts on the site. The games are downloaded via the Games For Windows Live client.

The games include Microsoft's own Age of Empires III: Complete Collection which has the last game in the series and its two expansion packs that were made by the now defunct Ensemble Studios. The game is now available for $19.99, a 50 percent price cut. The other games that are on sale have prices of $9.99 each and include Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War, Dawn of War Dark Crusade, Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

THQ's week long Steam sale continues today after 24 hour sales on Titan Quest games on Monday and Company of Heroes games on Tuesday. For the latest one day sale you can grab all of THQ's Warhammer 40,00: Dawn of War RTS games for 50 percent off their normal price.

That means the original Dawn of War Gold Edition is just $9.99, Dark Crusade is also just $9.99, Soulstorm is just $14.99, and the most recent game, Dawn of War II, is just $19.99. It's good timing considering that Dawn of War II should be getting a massive free update very soon. You can also get all the Dawn of War games in a complete pack for just $54.96. By the way, Steam's THQ Collector's Pack, which has all of the publisher's games on Steam, is also on sale for 10 percent off its normal price.

Those waiting for the Dawn of War 2 mini-expansion, your wait is over. The new update, affectionately titled There Is Only War, includes eight new multiplayer maps, new Observer and Referee features, a fully featured new map editor, new badges and colors, vast balancing changes, and many other changes to the game. You can read the patch notes on just what was added and changed on the Relic community blog.

To celebrate the release of the update, all Relic-developed games on Steam are now 50% off for this weekend only. This means that both the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War series are half off. You can get them in a pack or individually, your choice. Dawn of War 2 is also half off, and at $25, that's an absolute steal. It's a shame that the Homeworld series isn't on Steam, as that would be a great rounder to the deal.

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Congratulations, soldier: you survived another week. It's Friday afternoon, and instead of going out partying with your friends, you're anxious to get home, sit down at your computer, and play some new games. Sounds fun! Too bad you're broke. Lucky for you, PC gaming has an impressive library of classic games that are available online for cheap. Hang out with us every Friday so we can take you on a guided tour of some of the greatest bargains available throughout the many tubes of the Internet.

Welcome Big Download's Virtual Bargain Bin, the cure for your weekend gaming woes. This week's pick: Dawn of War: Soulstorm, a $7.50 bargain that includes the Dawn of War II Multiplayer Beta.

This hotfix patch for Warhamemr 40K: Dawn of War - Soulstorm fixes a number of balance issues introduced by the previous patch. Game must be updated to v1.1 before installing this patch.

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This patch updates the English version of Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Soulstorm from version 1.00 to 1.1.0. The patch fixes bugs and includes a long list of balance adjustments. Click continue to see the complete changelog.
Download Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Soulstorm v1.1.0 Patch (129 MB)
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One of the biggest problems for real-time strategy (RTS) games has been the detached and disinterested attitude many players exhibit when faced with playing them. More often than not, a lot of people who consistently play RTS games are doing so out of their love for the strategy element. That's all well and good, but there's a caveat: The problem continues. Why? It does so because the cache of players who're highly dedicated to RTS games don't count for much of the PC gaming contingent.

I've considered Relic Entertainment a top-drawer developer ever since I casually sat down to play Homeworld 2, only to discover a game that would absorb several tens of hours of my life. So when initial previews revealed that Dawn of War 2 (DoW2) wouldn't focus on player-built structures, I was intrigued. I continued to read up on the game and subsequently found even more provocative information. Players will only control five or so squads in any one battle? These squads are to stay with you over the course of the game? This was a glaringly unprecedented change, and I loved it.

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The newest wave of news about Dawn of War II is coming out of Relic and 1up.com has not only a three page interview with the game designers up, but a podcast discussing the game and even a short gameplay video. One of the biggest pieces of new information is that the strategy game will not feature base building. Instead players will control up to about five squads that stick with them throughout the singleplayer campaign. Of course Relic is keeping their lips sealed about whether or not a similar structure exists in the online mode.

Another subject that they're not speaking on is additional races beyond Space Marines and the Orks. Relic has said in the past that they would consider doing Tyranids Zerg Tyranids for DoW2. We're sure that by this point fans of the "Great Devourer" have become an extremely vocal crowd considering their race was the only one never to be officially featured in the original Dawn of War, even after numerous expansions. Maybe we'll see a new playable race revealed at this year's E3 and if fans are lucky they'll finally get .

If you -- much like many of us here at Big Download -- have spent endless hours playing Relic Entertainment's Dawn of War games, then you'll probably be interested in hearing some of the first pieces of information about the in-progress MMO based on the same franchise. While the MMO is not being developed by Relic -- as they're probably far too busy with Dawn of War 2 -- it is in the hands of an interesting, newer developer.

PC Gamer has an interview with both General Manager David Adams and Studio Creative Director Joe Madureira of Vigil Games (the developer Warhammer 40K Online) discussing what fans and curious onlookers can both expect from the game.