"Starting January 21st, Dawn of War - Soulstorm owners will be able to download and play the multiplayer beta of THQ's Warhammer 40k Dawn of War II via Steam. For those of you who do not own Soulstorm, you will have to wait until January 28th, 2009. Dawn of War II is scheduled for release February 23rd."

"Minimum Requirements

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
• P4 3.2 GHz (single core) or any Dual Core processor
• 1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
• A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent
• 5.5 GB of Hard Drive space

Recommended Hardware

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista SP1
• AMD Athlon 64×2 4400+ or any Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2 GB RAM (XP and Vista)
• A 256MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900, or equivalent
• 5.5 GB of Hard Dri...

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"You may have played games such as The Darkness, Hitman: Contracts, BioShock or Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. I bet you didn’t know that Plastic Wax was one of the companies responsible for the CG work that was put into those games. Pretty spiffy work, eh?"

"But if you lose it you don’t have to go back and do it again, there’s no more need to replay a mission over and over again. You will keep all the experience and the items that you found in the mission which is cool."

"As a huge fan of the RTS genre I try to play every major RTS that my grubby hands can get on. One game that has continued to elude my grasp is DoW. The reason simply is because of the ridiculous initial investment required to play the "full game." Call it whatever you want: episodic content, expansion packs, semi-sequels... this tactic of selling bite sized morsels of gameplay is milking at its finest. And why not milk? You combine a vast gameworld with a rabid fanbase and get gallons of ..."

"Until now, information on Dawn of War II has been limited for the most part to three measly screens and details on Warhammer 40K Online has been sparse.

Luckily, our friends down the hall at PC Gamer are getting ready to unleash a bombshell of details on everything Warhammer-related in their upcoming June issue and we can’t wait to read it."