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We have to say that the first real trailer for Trackmania 2 looks mighty impressive. Combine the great looking graphics with an easy-to-use track editor and this could be our new Saturday night thing when it comes out.

• Check out this fan-made Lego model of Portal 2's main enemy GLaDOS.
• Voting has begun for fans to pick the best user-made robot for the upcoming Shoot Many Robots.
• The Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Complete Soundtrack is now available to purchase from Sumthing Digital.
• As promised, the first episode of Telltale Games' new game series Hector Badge of Carnage is available on Steam with a 10 percent discount for its first week.

Publisher THQ's long standing Warhammer 40,000 game license will apparently continue for a while longer. The company has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Games Workshop for an extension of its license to make PC and other games based on the classic sci-fi war game series. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed nor was the length of the newly extended agreement.

THQ has released a number of Warhammer 40,000 games over the years including the Dawn of War RTS game series from developer Relic. Relic is working on the third person action game Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine for release this summer and we are still awaiting the long-in-development MMO Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium Online from developer Vigil Games.

If you have yet to purchase the recently released Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution, you will soon be able to play a stand alone version of the RTS game's Last Stand mode. Computer and Video Games reports that the Last Stand mode will be released on Wednesday via Steam for just $10.

The game, titled The Last Standalone, will have all of the content contained in the Last Stand mode created by developer Relic. If players want to try out the rest of Retribution, they will be able to upgrade to the full version for a reduced price.

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution will be getting its first paid downloadable mini-expansion on April 6. The recent sci-fi RTS game from developer Relic Entertainment will provide players on that day with the Dark Angels DLC pack for $7.50.

The Dark Angels pack will add eight new models to the Space Marines side along with new color set-ups for the rest. For example, the Force Commander will be in the DLC pack by a Dark Angels Company Master. That's him above with the feathery wing head gear. All of the Space Marine vehicles will be getting some new custom emblems and designs.

April 6 will also see the release of a free DLC pack for the game that will add 12 new Steam Achievements that also correspond to 12 new wargear parts for the game's Last Stand mode.

Developer Relic is wasting no time in offering fans some new content for the recently released RTS game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution. Today the game's publisher THQ sent over word that a content update for the game will be released on April 6.

The update will add 12 new Steam achievements to the game's Last Stand co-op survival mode. Each new achievement will also unlock a new piece of wargear for players to use in the game. There's no word yet on what the 12 achievements will be like nor what the wargear will consist of

[Via email press release]

Dragon Age 2 is due to be released tomorrow and BioWare's fantasy RPG sequel is already doing well, sales wise. Steam's latest weekly list of its top 10 best selling PC games shows Dragon Age 2 on top this week. In at number two is a $12.99 four game bundle from Ubisoft and number three belongs to the RTS game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution.

The full top 10 list is below:
1. Dragon Age 2 - BioWare/EA
2. Ubisoft Weekend Deal Pack - Ubisoft
3. Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution - Relic/THQ
4. Portal 2 - Valve
5. Rift - Trion Worlds
6. Crysis 2 - Crytek/EA
7. Bulletstorm - People Can Fly/Epic Games/EA
8. Homefront - Kaos Studios/THQ
9. Magicka - Arrowhead Game Studios/Paradox Interactive
10. Call of Duty Black Ops - Treyarch/Activision

Yet another busy day from GDC. It's great to hear that Minecraft and Amnesia, among other PC exclusive games, are selling so well and also gaining acceptance from game developers.

• As promised earlier this week the new Polynesian Scenario Pack for Civilization V has been released via Steam.
• Steam also has automatic updates available for Shank and Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution.
• GoG.com has added the top down sci-fi shooter Shadowgrounds to its PC game download library.
• A YouTube video shows a man updating his PC through every version of Windows.
• Former id Software founders John Romero and Tom Hall look back at the making of the original Doom at GDC 2011.

Relic Entertainment's next big RTS game announcement "should come in August". That's the word from THQ exec Danny Bilson in a recent message on his Twitter site. Relic has been THQ's main RTS game developer and has created the Company of Heroes WWII themed series along with adapting the Warhammer 40,000 franchise with the Dawn of War series.

While Relic's next RTS game, the stand alone expansion pack Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War II Retribution, is currently in beta and will be released on March 1, THQ recently announced that it will shut down Company of Heroes Online, its persistant online RTS, on March 31. Some have speculated that Relic might be working on a third game in its acclaimed space-based Homeworld series.

As promised, the multiplayer beta test for Relic's stand alone RTS expansion pack Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution has now gone live. People who have already pre-ordered the game via Steam can go ahead and download the multiplayer beta client now. People who have received a key to download the beta must follow the instructions on the game's community web site to get the beta client.

As we have previously reported the beta contain all six playable factions in the full version of the game (The Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines, Eldar, Tyranids, and Orks). On February 8, any person who has bought any Dawn of War game via Steam will gain access to the Retribution beta client. The beta is expected to run through February 24 with the game itself to be released on March 1.

Update: It looks like there have been some issues with distribution of the game's beta keys although some players have in fact made it into the beta test.

Fans of the Last Stand survival-style mode that is a part of the sci-fi RTS game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II will be happy to know that the upcoming stand alone expansion pack Dawn of War II Retribution will be adding some new content to that popular mode. PC Gamer is reporting that the mode from developer Relic and publisher THQ will add a new hero and a new map to the Last Stand mode.

The new hero is the Imperial Guard's Lord General which PC Gamer says "relies on summoned reinforcements and deployable turrets". The new level is unnamed but is described as a "volcanic-themed map" that will become a big challenge to even veteran Last Stand players. The new content will be included when Retribution is released on March 1.