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Grand Theft Auto IV is 2009's biggest Games For Windows Live game

by John Callaham Jan 11th 2010 @ 4:00PM

It had a horrible launch when it was released in late December 2008 but the PC port of Rockstar Games' open world action title Grand Theft Auto IV was the number one biggest online game on Microsoft's Games For Windows Live online service in 2009. Major Nelson's web site revealed the stats on Sunday, which is based on unique users (specific numbers were not revealed).

Relic's RTS game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II was the number two Games For Windows Live Games title while Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3 was number three. Surprisingly the 2007 released multiplayer shooter Shadowrun was the number four game on the list in 2009, indicating that perhaps the title from the now defunct FASA Interactive still has a strong online following. You can check out the entire top 20 list after the jump:

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Filed under: Action, FPS, RPG, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Direct2Drive holds end-of-year sale

by John Callaham Dec 26th 2009 @ 11:00AM

With its 24 Days of Christmas promotion now over, Direct2Drive has moved on to its last PC game sale of the year, putting a large fraction of its titles on sale until midnight Pacific time on January 1. If you missed out on their one day sales they have basically given you a second chance to grab these games at super low prices.

Among the games on sale are Torchlight at $9.95, Section 8 at $12.50, Champions Online at $14.95, Street Fighter IV at $19.95, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor at $7.50, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II at $19.95.

Filed under: Downloads

Direct2Drive offers one day sale on three titles

by John Callaham Dec 20th 2009 @ 3:00PM

Direct2Drive was originally suppose to offer just one game on sale for just one day during their 24 Days of Christmas promotion. But in the past few days they have gone ahead and put two PC game titles on sale for 24 hours. Today Direct2Drive has increased the amount again with three big PC game titles on sale until 1 pm Eastern time on Monday.

First the download site offers Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II. Relic's RTS game is on sale for just $19.95. Also getting a price cut is the original Bioshock which can be downloaded and purchased for just $9.95. Finally the multiplayer shooter Tribes: Vengeance also has a one-day price of $9.95.

Filed under: Downloads, FPS, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising gets March 11, 2010 release date

by John Callaham Nov 28th 2009 @ 9:00PM

You can add one more game to the massive list of PC titles due out in the first quarter of 2010. This time it's for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising. Thanks to a post in the game's official Facebook site, we now know that the stand alone expansion pack to the sci-fi RTS game from developer Relic and publisher THQ is due for release on March 11 in the US. Europeans get the expansion pack one day later on March 12.

That means that sci-fi RTS fans have yet another major release coming this March with Supreme Commander 2 due out on March 2 and Command and Conquer 4 set to ship on March 16. Will one or more of these games blink and be delayed to move out of the way of the competition?

[Via Relic News]

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War II Chaos Rising

Filed under: Expansions, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Dawn of War II Last Stand update released

by John Callaham Oct 15th 2009 @ 8:00PM

As announced earlier this week the big free update for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II is now live and can be downloaded via Steam. Once again this update to Relic's sci-fi RTS game adds The Last Stand gameplay mode where a three-player team has to go up against wave after wave of increasingly more enemies that are more difficult to defeat.

In addition to the new mode there are two new multiplayer maps in this update (the 2 player map Quest's Heresy and the four player map Hydris Chasm). There are also numerous unit changes and balance issued addressed in the update along with lots of but fixes.

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2

Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Dawn of War games 50 percent off via Steam

by John Callaham Oct 14th 2009 @ 5:00PM

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.

Filed under: RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Dawn of War II Last Stand multiplayer update release is "imminent"

by John Callaham Oct 13th 2009 @ 9:00PM

The fans of Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II have been waiting for a little while but soon they will be getting the next major free update to Relic's sci-fi RTS game. The previously revealed "Last Stand" update is supposedly close to release (the word they used was "imminent") so we are going to guess it will be made available to download sometime this week.

The entire change log for the update has been posted on the game's community forums. In addition to the new Last Stand multplayer mode (where teams of three go up against increasingly difficult waves of foes) there will be two new multiplayer maps and a host of game balance changes, tweaks and bug fixes. The video above has more info on the "Last Stand" mode.

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2

Filed under: Multiplayer, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Dawn of War II Chaos Rising concept artwork is all sorts of bad a**

by John Callaham Sep 21st 2009 @ 7:00PM

Normally we don't post much in the way of concept artwork but we just had to show you this bit of just freakin' awesome work from the upcoming and just announced Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Chaos Rising. Wow. You would think having high tech weapons would be cool enough but the Chaos Marines have devil dogs. Kind of an overkill but we love it.

Along with the above concept artwork, developer Relic and publisher THQ set over the first screenshots from the stand alone RTS expansion. They look pretty good too but we want to see devil dogs now. And massive axes too.

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War II Chaos Rising

Filed under: RTS, Screenshots, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising announced

by John Callaham Sep 21st 2009 @ 9:00AM

As previously hinted, developer Relic and publisher THQ have just announced plans for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising. It's the first stand alone expansion to the sci-fi RTS game that was released last February. The new game is due out in spring 2010 and will introduce the Chaos Space Marines as the new playable side in the series.

Chaos Rising will continue the storyline in the original Dawn of War II and you can even use your squad's items, experience points and more to fight the Chaos Marines in the new single player campaign. The level cap has also been raised from 20 to 30 and there will be new multiplayer maps and new units for the three playable sides in the first Dawn of War II game.

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War II Chaos Rising

Filed under: Expansions, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Hints about upcoming Dawn of War II expansion pack?

by John Callaham Sep 13th 2009 @ 9:00AM

Relic Entertainment has been generous with free updates to their sci-fi RTS game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II. But are they prepping a full fledged commercial expansion? Relic News seems to think so. The long time fan site of all things Relic have been sent some interesting packages from publisher THQ.

The package contain a Games Workshop minature of a Chaos Space Marine, a big hint that Relic plans to introduce them into the game at some point. The package, as you can see above, has "MMX" on it which is likely not a reference to Intel's old MMX processor but the year "2010", a possible hint as to a release date.

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2

Filed under: RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

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