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SEGA’s Make War Not Love Promotion Is Back For Year 5

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Rae Michelle Richards

SEGA’s annual “Make War Not Love” promotion is back for another round of community earned freebies and deep discounts on some of their more recent titles. 

This year SEGA has chosen a motif similar to the 1995 film “The Usual Suspects”, by titling this year’s giveaway as “The Unusual Suspects” and placing characters from Dawn of War III, Company of Heroes 2, Total War: Warhammer and Endless Space 2 in a police line-up, similar to The Usual Suspect’s theatrical poster. 

By signing up with your Steam account and authorizing SEGA to send you promotional emails over the course of the 5 day event you’ll gain access to two classic SEGA Genesis Titles – Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage 2. 

Each day has a community incentive to reach an unspecified total number of hours played across all titles per day to unlock an addition free game + DLC. As of the writing of this post the insentive for Feburary 14th has already been reached with a Total Warhammer II DLC and full copy of 2008’s Vikings: Battle for Asgard available.  

Of course, SEGA isn’t giving away free titles just for fun (although wouldn’t that be grand of them?) – they’re obviously doing this to bolster the online population of their recent titles and get those games into the hands of potential owners. The following discounts are available until February 18th: 

  • Total War: Warhammer (original game) – 60% off 
  • Total War: Warhammer 2 – 10% off 
  • Dawn of War III – 66% off 
  • Company of Heroes 2 – 75% 

If you don’t own any of the above games to participate in the unlocking of extra freebies – it might be worth it to sign up and stick around just to see what surprises have yet to come. 

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Relic Entertainment Drops Support for Dawn of War III

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Rae Michelle Richards

Developer of the Warhammer 40k RTS series Dawn of War and publisher SEGA have stated that they are ending support for the latest installment, Dawn of War III, just 10 months after the game launched.

Dawn of War III was a weird beast – not entirely traditional Real Time Strategy title and not entirely a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. DOW3 fused both related genres together in an experience that had commanders still ordering around medium sized armies but with the MOBA like objective of destroying the competitors core before their own core is taken out.

So now, as is so ever common in the AAA gaming space – a once promising title anticipated by the existing fanbase, will be abandoned because the game couldn’t attract all of the players in the world. By abandoning what made the Dawn of War franchise a long-time genre staple and adding in mechanics no one asked for- we’re left with a title that has a smaller player base than a Dawn of War 1 expansion chosen at random.

Below is the statement that Relic/SEGA released to Eurogamer.

“While Dawn of War 3 has a dedicated player base, it didn’t hit the targets we were expecting at launch, and it hasn’t performed the way we had hoped since. It’s been tough for us as professionals who want to make great games for our players, and for us as people who care a lot about what we do.

When a game underperforms, plans need to change. With Dawn of War 3, we simply don’t have the foundation we need to produce major content. We’re working in close partnership with Sega and Games Workshop to determine the best course of action, while shifting focus to other projects within our portfolio.”

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The Awesome Booths From PAX West

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Capcom brought a lot of their offerings from E3 to PAX for the public to enjoy. Surprisingly Dead Rising 4 only had 2 demo stations at their official booth although more where playable at the Microsoft booth.

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Indie title Warcube was part of the PAX Rising selection at PAX West.

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Our own Renee Gittin’s “Potions: A Curious Tale” was playable on the show-floor :D!

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Cards Against Humanity had a very creative store front at the entrance to this year’s con.

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It included a hallway that lead to a store where you could buy the subversive card game. Perhaps it was a picture taking opportunity for some.

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Star Trek: Bridge Commander was one of the surprise hits of this past weekend’s convention. Sadly it filled up so quickly that it was by appointment only.

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ARK: Survival Evolved’s T-REX is no stranger to the convention scene, we saw it last @ PAX East.

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Indie title Fox Hole: Persistent Warfare was playable on the show floor.

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RIPTIDE: Renegade GP devs showing off the latest build of their game.

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Gunvolt 2 was fully playable on this large television thanks to a special developer only 3DS unit.

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Friends of the site, the crew behind Star Mazer DSP had a booth at the show on the sixth floor indie scene.

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The Behemoth had an entire arcade of playable titles from both past and present at PAX West for attendees to try.

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Capcom’s Street Fighter V is no stranger to the convention scene, the game had several demo stations lining Capcom’s booth.

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Futuristic racer DISTANCE had this trippy but small booth as part of the PAX Rising selection at PAX West.

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Harmonix’s green room for the 4 person bands @ PAX West was absolutely rockin’!

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Dawn of War III was finally playable @ PAX West, unlike it’s Demo Theater showing at E3.

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WETA Workshop’s booth was full of creative wonders.

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The Rooster Teeth booth had a lot to offer fans of RWBY, Red Vs Blue and the site’s other properties.

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World of Warcraft: Legion Dominated Blizzard’s booth, allowing fans to try out the recently released limited time “Broken Shores” in-game event.

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Fans try out the R.W.B.Y game, recently released on Steam, at the Rooster Teeth booth.

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Dawn of War III Is Ready To Usher In A New Generation of Warfare

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

It’s an all-out blood bath in the cinematic debut trailer for 2017’s Dawn of War III. Lasting over 4 minutes in length this trailer showcases a brutal war between the Imperium (humans), Orks and the Eldar. Set for a 2017 release on Windows PC with develop duties being handled by long time Warhammer 40K RTS developer Relic Entertainment in collaboration with Games Workshop this latest Dawn of War title will hopefully satiate fan’s appetites – as they’ve been waiting since 2009 for more Dawn of War goodness.

The trailer ends with the haunting line “In the face of death, I shall have no remorse…”

Check out the debut trailer embedded below:

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