Propagandabot! Go!
I swear, that is an awesome mech design...

Upsilon

This is simply wonderful wonderful news! Order of importance (IMHO)

#1 Dawn of War
#2 Homeworld
#3 Company of heros

Eclectus

C'mon Relic! Bring back Impossible Creatures!
Seriously, though - this was practically fact some years ago in an interview at IGN - they asked why the Tyranid weren't included, and the Relic rep said that they were too unique for what they were doing at the time, but definitely in Dawn of War 2.

Scorpi

I just hope your referring to "Space Hulk: Vengance of the blood angels" which is a better game in my case as the atmosphere is just so right. Still works on xp over some LAN luckily : )

Just hope dawn of war 2 isn't as shallow..

JamieA

@skullpanda:

yes it would, after all they still have trouble balancing the table top game because of those differences especially in the case of the Tyranids genetic differences (i forget what that is called), and Eldar and their different craftworlds. but it would make things interesting especially with the Space Marines, and add an interesting amout of strategy. but i tend to agree with you that i is unlikely

YaMissed2

@Dresarius: Battlefleet Gothic still lives!

Jazhuis

Cool. I loves me some Dawn of War.

FrigidAir44

He guys.

With "Tyranids has been done, and is called Starcraft 2."
I don't mean Tyranids are a clone of Starwars. That is a nonsense. Maybe is the other way around, that all the Starcraft universe is a ripoff of Warhammer 40K.

What I mean, is that If you want to fight hordes of next-gen insectoid foes, you will buy SC2 and play the human campaing, or something. Has been done, the idea of "armored guys with flamers and autoguns vs hordes of zergs".

I am just reading the book "The flight of eisenstein". So I am not on teh good side, guys. O:-D

tei

I too love the smell of pulse-plasma in the morning.

:)

Onizuka-GTO

I love Relic, Dawn of War was the best RTS in a long time prior (I'd put that honor to Rise of Nations) and Company of Heroes is crack. They _are_ the kwisatz haderach of RTS gaming now...Starcraft 2 better hope to impress.

MrFatalistic

Sweet, there is a god, and his name is the Immortal Emperor! Praise him! Tell Sajuuk to suck it!

Pezdispenser

"Tyranids has been done, and is called Starcraft 2.

Homeworld is unique, and old now. Maybe the best idea could be more games with the CoH gameplay. Or something new and original, in both history and gameplay. You guys only ask about {name of game}{number}. Be original guys!."

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE YOU

Games Workshop, Tyranids and etc have been around long before Starcraft and Blizzard. I'm soooo sick of people giving GW crap for 'not being original' instead of giving blizzard crap for nigh blatant stealing.

Caowyth

Sins is much more "Homeworld meets Galactic Civilisations" than "Homeworld meets Supreme Commander", although it does share the universal zoom feature.

cdammers

I love the smell of Bio-Plasma in the morning.

D3D

The game mechanics are mostly fine with me... just give me more army-painting options with customization for different units (including addons like skulls and the little wolf tails the Space Wolves had, etc...)

DoW is almost perfect in many ways, IMO there's mostly tweaking that needs to be done to fix up minor things.

N-Bomb

Screw Homeworld, the green scourge demands more WAAAGH!!!

Hell yeah, we had known this for a while but this confirmation is just the sweetest. One of the best RTS series after the Golden Age of the genre, and bound to be eons ahead of Starcraft 2 in terms of innovation.

Ethereus

Warhammer 40,000: Total War.

N-Bomb

This is among the very finest in the all-to-stale RTS genre. Relic remains one of the few consistently amazing developers left. I hope they bring the same drive and polish that shaped Dawn of War into the sequel.

Degringolade

I am a Homeworld fan but I like Sins of a Solar Empire enough that it should hold me off. I am definately looking forward to more 40k game. I LOVE the 40k universe.

Not-Witzbold

Awesome, awesome, awesome.

One thing Relic, give us Tyranids this time.

Pinhead

*starts slow "Homeworld" chant while shaking fists in the air*

necrozim

mmmmm blood angels dreadnought

Sinharvest

@kenjara: Who needs Homeworld when you...what?! Sins Of A Solar Empire is good, no doubt, but it's not really comparable to Homeworld. The 4X mechanics of SoaSE give the combat a different angle. Homeworld deserves a third installment.

And another intro where the adagio-for-strings sends shivers up my spine. Try finding that feeling in any other game, let alone RTS!

pylon_trooper

I just yawned so huge that my head is now inside out.

DankPanties

Relic, you are my guilty pleasure.

Polterg3ist

Yes please Mr Relic sir.

gaggle64

Hell yes, I hope that they take the game even further from standard RTS-game formula, DoW really was a great game but after playing the game too much it just felt like another RTS-game, if you know what I mean.

So new ideas please, would be nice if there would be a different Space Marine chapters for example, with differrent style of play and unique commander units.

Hansel

@Tarislar: I completely agree. DoW was probably the most fun RTS of the 2000s. Better than Homeworld, Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander... and other stuff.

Allaby

Uhm, amidst all the snot drenched sobbing about Homeworld, can I interject that I'm REALLY FRIGGIN HAPPY that they're making a Dawn of War 2 and that I absolutely adored everything about the first one and it's expansions.

Tarislar

"By the blood of Sanguinius!" Good choice on the Blood Angels Furioso Dreadnaught.

Waelwulf

Who need Homeworld when we have Sins of a Solar Empire? Its much better. Unless they make some radical changes in a new Homeworld I'll be happy with Sins.

kenjara

DoW1 was fun, and I'm excited for DoW2... but Relic, come on. Need some Homeworld 3. Probably my favorite RTS series ever.

Salvaging 3x more units than you could possibly have in HW1 and obliterating the final level was so much fun.

Knight

good news, I want more wh40k!
love relic games - they are the best strategies developer with innovation, style and great gameplay

Spds

I'm a sad...Jew. Not Panda, Jew. I was hoping for more Homeworld content.

Sigh. This game better damn well have the Tyranids.

@tei: Uh you are aware that that the races of StarCraft were pretty much ripped right from Warhammer 40k, yes? Blizzard owes Games Workshop many hundreds of millions of dollars which they'll never agree to hand over, of course.

Atheist Jew

Hopefully this one actually pays some credence to the S in RTS, rather than bigger army = win. But also retains the atmosphere of the first one, best ingame representation of the 40k universe, ever!

Anthropomancer

I do hope they update the game with the same engine COH runs off of.

Same for the AI since they use the multiple areas of cover so much better.

Witzbold

Tyranids has been done, and is called Starcraft 2.

Homeworld is unique, and old now. Maybe the best idea could be more games with the CoH gameplay. Or something new and original, in both history and gameplay. You guys only ask about {name of game}{number}. Be original guys!.

tei

God I love Dawn of War, its probably one of the few RTS games (Starcraft, WCIII, etc). That has been on my PC constantly...damn I love this game.

Hopefully, Relic won't be releasing like 3 expansions with different races.

exkon

@Diesel_Power: You lose. They are both great in their own respective gameplay but to say that Starcaft=unit spam is unfounded.

You obviously have not seen my mutated kind that can level a base with 4 marines and two medics on national TV.

The control is /godlike

Fyren

Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean.

大漢中

@RockstarLlama: Only if its done by the team who made the original title and not the expansion, since it is different. Also done by the same lead programmer who did the first title.

Witzbold

@dantheman1000: I couldn't stand how they completely changed the controls in Cataclysm I mean that completely ruined it for me.

clintonskneecap

I hate what that new studio is doing to Soulstorm. I mean, theres taking creative liberties, then theres sticking your cock in beautiful IP and thrusting repeatedly. I'm exagerating but, some of the new features really don't sit well with me.

Here's hoping they make this DoW 2 kickass and mind numbingly awesome.

Garro

Well, they could appease both the homeworld crowd and the DOW crowd and just make Warhammer 40k: Homeworld 3: battlefleet gothic.

mechis

Going to paint my computer red, it might need it.

Sinfjotle

@Heavybell:

I couldn't play Cataclysm for a long time. It bugged me that to make a corvette you just slap two ships together. The big part of Homeworld for me was the ship designs and Cataclysm kind of dropped the ball for me.

dantheman1000

@Diesel_Power: I remember hearing in an interview they couldn't put nids in the first one because they engine couldn't handle the amount of nids required on screen to do them justice. They did say that when DoW 2 comes out they will be one of the first races.

clintonskneecap

Give me Tyranids!!! I can't wait! *drools*

Boudabras

...eep...

*gets a heart attack due to excitement and keels over*

Zamzoph

The "air units" in the most recent expansion for dawn of war were lacking... hopefully some legitimate air combat will come of this.
Also, Tyranids. Look at the friggin' display pic. And name.

the-red-terror

They're gonna put Tyranids in this. They have to. Relic knows everybody has been wanting them.

Diesel_Power

@Gunhaver: Agreed.

@KraZe: Eh, would probably work better as its own game.

I suck so bad at RTS games, but I have too much fun to care. And with Warhammer 40k... <3

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

@crapsh00t:
That would be a wonderful idea.

Anyone up fo Battlefleet Gothic being incorperated into standard gameplay?

KraZe

If: have nids
Then: will buy

Gunhaver

Tasty.

I do hope that they're working on HW3; Sins isn't bad, but plays too much like a 4x for me to love it like I did Homeworld.

People grousing about Homeworld 2's story line should search for the original design documents, which one of Relic's writers released a couple of years ago; the story was arguably as good as (I think even better than) the first, but Sierra evidently deemed it too highbrow, and the result was the half-baked story that went into HW2.

FellTheDabus

I knew there was a reason that I was upgrading my computer...the new breed of Warhammer games was apparently it. Between Mark of Chaos(decent), Dawn of War 2, WAR, and the announced 40k MMO I'll be in bliss. Now hopefully they don't screw up the Dark Eldar in the DoW Expansion...

JayrodT

sounds great! I heard they where using a updated version of the CoH engine. but come on the best game since space hulk? What about Chaos Gate and Dark Omen?

clintonskneecap

@Dresarius: I would actually just really like a battle Fleet gothic game. I made a few models for a BFG/Homeworld conversion a hundred years ago when I was still really into 40k.

It's rules were so much more solid than 40k's. It's too bad that they killed it off though.

Dresarius

Red Alert 3, Street Fighter IV, and now this! How about Marvel Vs Capcom 3 and Super Mario RPG 2 and I'll be all set.

Coldbrand

@crapsh00t: Chaos is from another Dimension.

I enjoyed the Dawn of War games and I played the original and the first two expansion packs.

I would rather see Homeworld 3 though. The first game was amazing. The second one was really good too, but didn't have quite the same feel to it.

Dresarius

@crapsh00t:

I also think having a major franchise like Warhammer with it's massive universe as background makes it a better choice than homeworld.

idrisz

Homeworld doesn't have demons that crawl from the nether regions of space to exert inconceivable Godly powers upon space marines with chainsaws. Dawn of War does. Therefore, it's understandable that they'd make another WH game instead of Homeworld.

Perhaps they'll create a massive RTS that incorporates Homeworld style space battles from the Warhammer 40k universe with Dawn of War ground combat.

crapsh00t

Hell yes.
here's hoping they launch before Starcraft 2 with Tyranids, Eldar and Space Marines.

There's all kinds of reasons such an idea amuses me.

KraZe

Still need to play the first one. I have it here and it's my next game after I am finish with my replay of Starcraft. I just finished the main game and now starting the expansion.

Company of heroes is my favorite RTS ever made after Starcraft and Warcraft3. I wonder if it will surpass one of those 3 games.

skobar

OMG YES!!!!

Dawn of war 2, territory grab gameplay > strcraft 2's unit spam gameplay

Diesel_Power

@YaMissed2: They'd probably have a hell of a time trying to balance all of that.

skullpanda

@dantheman1000: Cataclysm's story was kinda epic, in a scary kind of way.

Heavybell

ALL RIGHT!!!!! lets hope they finally put space marine chapter differences into the sequel, so you can play as the Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Dark Angels, or Imperial Fists, or even adding all of the races.

YaMissed2

Did anyone else not like HW2? I thought the story was weak (and implausible, with the whole 'only 3 hyperspace cores in the universe thing), and the AI too cheaty.

Heavybell

@RockstarLlama: COH had some good gameplay elements to it. I can only imagine that some fo them will get brought into DOW. And as far as the setting goes, Chaos beats Nazis hands down.
Tyranids would definitely be yummy. :D

skullpanda

Best news evar! I do love me some Dawn of War.

BornToFlail

I enjoy dow more than HW, never played any warhammer games before DOW, but it's just so great when avatar of Khaine grabs an orc, and SQUEEEEze....

idrisz

I liked the UI better in Homeworld 2, but I don't think anything can match the orginal Homeworld's epic story. It... was... EPIC.

dantheman1000

@Fyren: You might want to give Sins of a Solar Empire a try to tide you over. It's being billed as Homeworld meets Supreme Commander.

Bluecell

I've still never played the original. Last year for Christmas me & my roommate both got each other this game. Hah. So, we decided it was nonsense for us both to have a copy, so I returned mine and got a different game. We were gonna share his, but I never got around to installing it on my computer and we don't live together anymore, and I've still never played the game. Damn. Oh well, I guess I'll just wait it out and play the sequal whenever that's done.

baked ham

looks explosive and powerful

"war" x 5

greygecko

Tyranids please if true.

Gen16Snes

@RockstarLlama: Company of Heroes needs to rest for a little bit so Homeworld can live again!

NitrousO

They might be doing both? That you said it which means its inconceivable, implausible, unlikely, Metal Gear Solid 4 on the Xbox, conceivable, plausible, possible, slightly likely, favorable, very likely, confirmed!

Im so excited!
Im off to submit this to every forum I can find as a fact! :D

NitrousO

I would actually prefer some more Company of Heroes.

RockstarLlama

/Tear.

I was really hoping for a Homeworld news. I love me WAR, but honestly, homeworld needs to come to current-gen now.

Fyren