SEGA has today announced Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault; an all new standalone single-player expansion and a harrowing new chapter in the critically acclaimed series.

Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault is inspired by the conflict that Winston Churchill once described as “undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war” – the Battle of the Bulge. The new campaign content will see players take control of the US Forces in this pivotal World War II battle in the densely forested, strategically critical Ardennes region of Western Europe. They will face huge tactical and navigational challenges as they strive to repel a surprise attack from the relentless German Oberkommando West forces in 18 brand new, single-player scenarios.

Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault will feature three entirely new Companies to choose from within the US Forces, each with their own unique Officers and play-style. Players will see their decisions and actions reflected across the Ardennes landscape in this dynamic new single-player campaign. Player choices are crucial as every decision will not only impact the story but also their Company with upgrades and Veterancy carrying over from mission to mission. With limited soldiers under your command, you must manage their lives and well-being effectively or risk losing that Company for good. Will you lead your Company valiantly and emerge as heroes?

“We can’t wait to bring our players this awesome new single-player campaign for Company of Heroes 2,” said Greg Wilson, Executive Producer at Relic Entertainment. ”We managed to include more missions in this expansion than we had in the original release and it’s packed full of great new features which we’ll be revealing over the coming months.”

Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault is developed by Relic Entertainment and will be launching on November 18, 2014, for Windows PC and PC digital download platforms.

SEGA has released the first gameplay trailer for Company of Heroes 2’s upcoming standalone multiplayer offering The Western Front Armies, revealing a June 24th, 2014, release date. SEGA also announced that customers who preorder The Western Front Armies will receive two unique vehicle skins (one for each faction) with matching faceplates.

Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies brings players back to the Western Front first introduced in the original award-winning Company of Heroes. The Western Front Armies introduces two unique collections of new content - the US Forces and the German Oberkommando West. Each army has distinctive tactical gameplay options, new infantry, team weapons, vehicles, abilities and upgrades on a total of eight seasonal multiplayer maps set on the Western Front. The Western Front Armies also includes an extended progression system that introduces other unique content into the game and enables players to dive deeper into the tactical and strategic aspects of the game than ever before.

The Western Front Armies will launch on June 24, 2014. Each individual army will also be available as a standalone purchase via digital download, providing new players with a minimal entry point into the massive Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer community.

SEGA has today announced a full week of celebrations and promotions for its award-winning strategy game Company of Heroes 2 in honor of ‘Elbe Day’ today, April 25th.

Elbe Day in 1945 marked the first contact between American and Soviet troops near the German river Elbe during the late stages of World War II. In honour of this historic encounter, the entire Company of Heroes 2 base game will be free for everyone on Steam to try out for the duration of the weekend. The game will automatically appear in every Steam user’s library until Sunday, April 27th, 2014, 9PM GMT.

Additionally, SEGA also announced that Company of Heroes 2 and all DLC will be seeing a 66% off sales promotion over the weekend, offering the game at £10.19 until Monday, April 28th, 2014 at 6pm GMT.

SEGA today announced that fans of their critically acclaimed strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will see a standalone multiplayer offering launching in June this year for $19.99. Each individual army will also be available as a standalone purchase for $12.99 via digital download, providing new players with a minimal entry point into the massive Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer community.

Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies brings players back to the Western Front first introduced in the original award-winning Company of Heroes. The Western Front Armies introduces two unique collections of new content - the US Forces and the German Oberkommando West. Each army has distinctive tactical gameplay options, new infantry, team weapons, vehicles, abilities and upgrades on a total of eight seasonal multiplayer maps set on the Western Front. The Western Front Armies also includes a new progression system that introduces other unique content into the game and enables players to dive deeper into the tactical and strategic aspects of the game than ever before.

All Company of Heroes 2 players can then battle across 31 maps (along with more than 1000 community maps available on Steam Workshop) in auto-match multiplayer, regardless of what content they already own, even if they have just purchased the new Western Front Armies.

“We know how much fans love the setting of the original game and we have responded to their request to revisit the Western Front,” said Greg Wilson, Executive Producer at Relic Entertainment. “By offering Western Front focused content to Company of Heroes 2, we are giving players a brand new set of tactical options that significantly expand their multiplayer experience. At the same time, it has never been easier for new players to get access to our vast multiplayer community. “

Those brave soldiers of Company of Heroes 2 have received a care package today in the form of some free DLC and a premium Theatre of War pack. Or at least, they will. It doesn’t seem to be out yet, but we’re told it should be arriving later today.

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SEGA has announced that the Victory at Stalingrad premium content will be launching next week for Company of Heroes 2’s Theater of War mode and is available for pre-sell on Steam from today until Monday for 10% off.

Victory at Stalingrad will go live on Steam on November 12th, 2013, for £6.99/$9.99 as part of the Turning Point update. The Victory at Stalingrad mini-pack includes the following content:

Co-Op Scenario: Kalach Pincer
70 kilometers west of Stalingrad, Soviet forces must move rapidly to secure key locations and resources about the town of Kalach before mounting the final attack on the vital bridge across the River Don.

Solo Challenge: Tatsinskaya Raid
The Red Army's 24th Tank Corps is headed deep into enemy territory to take the German airfield at Tatsinskaya and destroy the aircraft that keeps trapped German forces supplied in Stalingrad.

Solo Challenge: Bridge Defense
Forced to wait for air units to be ready, the Red Army has had to delay Operation Uranus at the last minute. Irregular and Partisan forces have already moved to secure a key bridge across the Don River and must now hold out against determined German attacks.

AI Battle: Winter Storm
The Wehrmacht has launched Operation Winter Storm in an attempt to relieve their Sixth Army in Stalingrad. Soviet forces must block this attack to prevent the fascists from escaping the city.

AI Battle: Stalingrad Resistance
The Soviets defend the blown out Stalingrad inch by inch, all the while looking to the skies as the German Luftwaffe drops bombs on any target they can find.

AI Battle: Stalingrad Encirclement
Months of bloody close-quarter fighting have led to a decisive turning point for control of Stalingrad. Most of the German 6th Army has been left cut off and surrounded in the city. The Red Army must repulse a breakout attempt by the exhausted German forces.

As well as the Victory at Stalingrad mini-pack, the Turning Point update also includes new premium commanders ($2.99) and skins ($1.99) which will be available to purchase on the Steam store.

As previously announced, free content for Turning Point includes the strongly requested community feature Company of Heroes 2 World Builder, a total of four Commanders new to the game’s multiplayer and skirmish modes, two community created and two additional Commanders, as well as two new multiplayer maps, Rails and Metal and Lazur Factory.

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Company of Heroes 2 will undergo a free update called ‘Turning Point,’ on November 12th, 2013, Sega has announced. This update will include a host of free content, including items created by and for the game’s community.

Turning Point includes:

• World Builder - This highly requested community feature enables players to design and share their own multiplayer maps for Company of Heroes 2.
• Two New Multiplayer Maps - The game’s multiplayer roster is being bolstered with two additional multiplayer maps, the industrial ‘Rails and Metal’ and the urban ‘Lazur Factory.’
• Four New Multiplayer Commanders - Four new Commanders, two per faction, are being introduced into the game’s multiplayer and skirmish modes. One Commander from each faction was designed by members of the Company of Heroes 2 community during a visit to Relic this summer.

“We are excited to provide such a large content update to Company of Heroes 2 players,” said Greg Wilson, Executive Producer at Relic Entertainment. “We are particularly proud to offer our community the much sought-after World Builder and are hoping to provide Steam Workshop integration and other mod features in the near future.”

Further information on the Turning Point update will be detailed throughout this week. The company also announced that a sneak peek at the new maps will be demoed live on Relic Entertainment’s Twitch TV channel tomorrow, November 5th, 2013, followed by a preview of the community requested World Builder on November 6th.


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Company of Heroes 2 is getting two free multiplayer maps today, titled Rostov and Khakov. Rostov is a six-player map based on the World War 2 battle that took place there, and Khakov is a four-player map set in the Ukrainian city that fielded many battles of its own.

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Russian distributor 1C-SoftKlab has suspended sales of Company of Heroes 2 following complaints over the game's portrayal of Soviet military history. "In connection with appeals of people who consider unacceptable number of episodes of the game, the company '1C-SoftKlab' chose 26 July 2013 to stop selling PC game Company of Heroes 2 in the territory of the Russian Federation and CIS," reads a statement published on the company's website (translated via Google).

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Company of Heroes 2 found broad favor with the media, gaining an 80 percent average on Metacritic. But there's one group of people who really don't like the game. Critics in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union say its portrayal of the Eastern Front in World War II plays to Western bias about history and clichés about the Soviet war effort.

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Take a look at what inspired the developers at Relic Entertainment, and what drove them to make the great multiplayer experience from the original Company of Heroes even better with its sequel.

The Company of Heroes 2 open beta, originally scheduled to conclude yesterday, has been extended through this Sunday, June 23, until midnight Pacific. In this latest phase of testing, beta recruits will have access to new multiplayer maps in the rotation.

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You have read about the Company of Heroes 2 demo shown at E3 and now you can try it for yourself by simply visiting the game’s page on Steam.

The demo is part of the game’s campaign and comes from a mid-game mission called ‘The Land Bridge to Leningrad’ where the player will be asked to cross a frozen lake under heavy German fire. The demo is a portion of the full level included in the retail game.

This mission will be included as part of the currently running Open Beta on Steam.  Players who have the beta installed will notice the Campaign button on the title screen is now unlocked. Clicking on it will take them to the mission select screen where the demo can be launched. New players will need to download the Open Beta from the game’s page on Steam.

There are also tutorial videos available in the build to help any new players familiarize themselves with the Company of Heroes 2 control system. This demo will be available to play along with the Open Beta up until Tuesday, June 18th. Company of Heroes 2 will be available for PC on June 25th 2013.

The Company of Heroes 2 open beta will launch later today on Steam and will run until June 18th, Relic Entertainment has announced.

Featuring the title’s multiplayer mode, the Open Beta will allow players to experience competitive and co-operative gameplay on six of the game's maps. The Open Beta will also allow gamers to test out the first 45 levels of the game's progression and bulletin system.

As an added incentive players who participate in the Open beta will get to retain all progression and unlocks earned during this period, if they purchase the game within the first 60 days of launch and play it on the same Steam account as the beta.

Greg Wilson, Producer of Company of Heroes 2 commented: "We have been working hard since the Closed Beta balancing and improving all areas of the game as well as adding new matchmaking servers. COH2 has had one of the most successful Beta programs we’ve ever run at Relic and the support of the fans has been a critical factor in making the game more balanced and stable for launch.”

Company of Heroes 2 will be available for PC on June 25th.

Sega has released a new Company of Heroes 2 trailer. Entitled 'More than Tanks', it shows off infantry, ground-based vehicular and airborne combat.

Take a look at the new cinematic trailer for Company of Heroes 2. This trailer gives a small sampling of what to expect from the narrative of the singleplayer campaign.

SEGA has unveiled the Red Star Edition of the upcoming World War II RTS Company of Heroes 2. Housed in Steel Book packaging, it comes with a vehicle skin combo pack, which unlocks 24 historically accurate new skins for the game’s multiplayer mode, as well as a unique Soviet Commander. Also included is the Commander Pass, which will unlock another five multiplayer Commanders post launch.

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Company of Heroes 2 will ship with an all-new mode called 'Theatre of War' on top of its cinematic campaign and competitive multiplayer, SEGA has announced.

Theatre of War allows Relic Entertainment to tell different stories from the conflict in the form of new playable single player and co-operative content. The mode includes solo challenges where players are pitted against overwhelming odds, AI battles against an enemy commander with a unique play style and co-operative scenarios for fans to enjoy with their friends.

At the launch of COH2, the Theatre of War mode will include missions from key battles in 1941. Choosing either the Soviet Red Army or the Germans, players will visit different locations across the Eastern Front and take part in some of the most famous battles that occurred that year. Each faction has 9 unique missions included. More Theatre of War missions will be added to the game at a later date, including the previously announced mini-pack for all eligible pre-order customers.

“We get a lot of requests from fans to showcase specific conflicts from the war and it isn’t always possible to fit these into the campaign. Theatre of War gives us the opportunity to deliver these new gameplay experiences to our fans.” said Greg Wilson, Producer of Company of Heroes 2.

Quinn Duffy, Game Director added, “Theatre of War acts as a perfect bridge between the game’s single and multiplayer content providing a high level of re-playability and helping to introduce traditionally solo players to the online elements of the game.”

Company of Heroes 2 will be available for the PC on June 25th.