Not in Los Angeles enjoying some Company of Heroes 2 single-player campaign? Well, that won't do! SEGA has released the E3 show floor demo onto the Interwebz, and it can be accessed via Steam's store page. The mission is to be included as part of the open beta for Company of Heroes 2 currently running, as testers will notice the Campaign button light up. It's called 'The Land Bridge to Leningrad'.
Relic Entertainment has bowed to pressure and extended the open beta for Company of Heroes 2 until midnight PDT on June 23rd, which means fans can enjoy a double XP weekend with additional maps in rotation. The double XP is earned if you play through a normal auto match. Relic also remind us that purchasing within 60 days of launch will transfer beta progression over to a full account.
The development team at Relic discuss how they've brought big multiplayer battles to the Eastern Front in Company of Heroes 2, in the dev diary released by SEGA. It's just over 5 minutes long. The open beta continues to wage war as Relic extended it until the 23rd, with this weekend enjoying a double XP boost. The beta includes a single-player campaign mission to sample.
In the third developer diary for Company of Heroes 2, the brutality of the Eastern Front is highlighted, and puts players on a memorable journey through the battlefields of WWII.
Sega has announced that that developer Relic's Company of Heroes 2 is now available both in retail and digital distribution. The game uses the Essence 3.0 Engine, with "ColdTech" weather engine (as your soldiers freeze to death), a TrueSight line-of-sight system, and destructible environment.
Naughty Dog's The Last of Us remains first among the UK all format chart, despite sales being 35% down. Debuting 2nd was Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition from 4J Studios and Microsoft. The Sims 3: Island Paradise entered 5th, with High Moon's Deadpool 6th. Relic Entertainment's Company of Heroes 2 busted the Eastern Front in retailing 10th.
Sega is trying to recoup money from shuttered publisher THQ, and is demanding that it get $941,710.93 from THQ, the amount the latter received in the form of 20,755 preorders of Company of Heroes 2 on Steam.
Relic developed its World War II real-time strategy game based on the Eastern Front, Company of Heroes 2, with complete accuracy, but some critics are complaining about how their side was depicted.
A new update for Company of Heroes 2 will include a free map, the popular Company of Heroes multiplayer map, Langres, which will be given a "suitable Eastern Front twist."
Sega has announced it's enjoyed a strong first quarter of the fiscal year, with Company of Heroes 2 a factor, selling 380K copies during the period.
We already know that Relic is remaking Langres for Company of Heroes 2, which proved one of the most popular small-scale maps from the original series. Now they've airstriked our position with a trailer.
The original Langres has been "remastered" as Langreskaya, and comes with all the upgraded trimmings of a Company of Heroes 2 map - destruction, Russians and yellow snow!
Company of Heroes 2 is no longer being sold in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe, as the distributor in that region, 1C-SoftClub, has bowed to public pressure.
Sega and Relic Entertainment have issued similar statements apologizing for distraught Russians who are displeased with the portrayal of the Eastern Front campaign in World War II in Company of Heroes 2.
Another two maps are making their way onto the Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer roster with Semois "rebuilt from the ground up" with both summer and winter versions. The COH map is reborn as Semoskiy. The summer version of the map is available for free today, whilst the snowy version won't arrive until September 10th. Relic has released two shots of the new free map.
Relic Entertainment has announced that two new maps for their tactical real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will be available today for free.
Real-time strategy Company of Heroes 2 will receive an air drop of free content next week as the 'Turning Point' update is released on Tuesday, November 12th. It'll include community made items. A "highly requested" world builder is part of the free content, letting us "design and share" multiplayer maps. Two new maps are included and four new Commanders.
Relic announced the Turning Point update for Company of Heroes 2 earlier this week, and now the developer has announced that additional DLC will be released on the same day. The Victory at Stalingrad DLC will add new co-op and solo challenges.
Sega has announced that the "Turning Point" update is now available for Company of Heroes 2 on Steam. The expansion adds free content including the World Builder which allows fans to create their own maps, two free multiplayer maps and four free multiplayer commanders.
SEGA has released the next big update for Company of Heroes, which will see a number of key feature updates to the game's Steam functionality, such as secure leaderboards, battle and arbitration servers. The latest release in the series, Company of Heroes 2, has also been updated with a Theatre of War pack called 'Southern Fronts’, which will retail at $4.99/£2.99/€3.99/AUD 6.49 on Steam. Two free maps have also been made available, along with several game improvements and the ability to upload community created maps to Steam's Workshop.
The Cold War is over, yet modern videogames still paint Russia as the enemy. What are the causes, and do we only have ourselves to blame?