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nero4ever has set up a nifty little site that allows you to find a partner for arranged team games.

You can either browse the existing entries or just add yourself to the database if you are looking for someone. Feel free to leave a comment what you think about it or if you want another feature implemented.

The website is free of charge and free of ads. You can check it out at http://coh-at.org/.

There’s lots of translations for a Belgium PC Gaming magazine floating around with info about Dawn of War 2.

Here’s a shamless copy and paste of the info I found over at www.evilavatar.com

- Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimized for DX10 and multicore support.
- Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
- While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH it won’t be “CoH in space”, while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
- Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
- Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn’t known).
- Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
- Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); “Let’s pimp out squads with cool stuff!”, you will see these items in-game as well of course.
- You’ll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don’t treat them like cannon fodder.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you’ll get a view of an underlying planet and you’ll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colors, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won’t be usable at once in the campaign, so they’ll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Release in early 2009 or later.

Looks like it’s from the Belgian Mag PC Gameplay, and is an interview with Mark Noseworthy (who’s the producer on the product).

I also spotted this summary of some of the article on a NeoGaf forum:

Some quick info:
-Buildings can be occupied (like in coh)
-Environment completely destructable ^^
-Vehicles are bigger (there were only a couple of dreadnought shots)
-LOTS of blood (i saw the screens and thought LOL)
-Over the top finishing animations
-when units are in melee, pieces of battle armor can be chopped off in the action

I’m thouroughly enjoying Soulstorm (it’s M.O.T.S. of Dark Crusade, which isn’t really a bad thing), so I’m stoked info about this is finally coming out. Looks awesome!

There’s also a VERY INTERESTING Video that I spotted in a Something Awful thread.

Click More to see a description of the screenshots in the article.

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Bogger from ESL wanted give a heads up that registration for the ESL Soulstorm 1 vs 1 Open Cup is going on right now. They want 256 registered players and they’re currently at 165.

This is open to all players of all skill levels. Prizes are awarded for top players in the ladder.

ESL Soulstorm Open Cup information
ESL thread on Relic Forums

The 2.300 Patch is out!

Download it via signing into Relic Online, or you can grab the 38 MB patch from somewhere like WorthPlaying.

Buggo posted up the patchlog for version 2.300 of Company of Heroes. Here are some highlights that I think are pretty neat,

- 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 Team Automatch enabled.
- Players should no longer get disconnected from a game if the server goes down.

Also a lot of bug fixes and balance changes are included as well.

You can find more information in this thread post.

Estimated release date, according to Buggo, is 3/18/08.

Darkwind212 took a picture of an ad from PC Gamer UK for their next upcoming issue. It reads “Special Exclusive: Are you ready for a new dawn?”

This photo is the picture in question.

You guys can discuss in this thread

Thanks gorays!

It could also be the fabled Forestry Sim as well

CoH (and OF) patch 2.202 has been released.

You can snag it by logging into Relic Online, or via sites like Worth Playing.

Apparently only one thing in this patch.

Increased version for CoH Gold Edition Release. Unlock both products with one key!

THQ UK is having a drawing for a printed canvas of a Sister of Battle concept art. You have to be a myTHQ member to register.

edit: apparently, it is only for UK residents.

Soulstorm art drawing

Thanks Bluesnews!

Soulstorm has begun to ship to retailers. Expect to see them in stores tomorrow.

Soulstorm ships for PC