Dawn of War 3 will be free to play and more mmo oriented a-la Company of Heroes Online, don’t hold your breath through since we won’t see anything before 2-3 years… Meanwhile they will release a new expansion for Dow 2 named retribution in march 2011.
The expansion will have new content, such as maps,units and the single player campaign will be playable by all the races not just space marines.. about the new multiplayer playable race.. speculation on the web point to a hybrid Inquisition-IG army..
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.
Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet’s surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.
Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.
Sometime ago i had this idea, what about remaking the X-Com Ufo game using the Dawn of War 2 Engine ? It would be a great single player experience, plus a decent if not good multiplayer experience…
What do you think?
‘troid is Atari’s Asteroids bred with a modern Treasure shooter. A multiplier gameplay mechanic turns levels into complex risk-reward scoring opportunities. Extreme bullet dodging skills required for the highest scores. Rocks, Pulse-Rocks, J-Fish, Spinners, Gates, Snakes and Shields conspire against you.