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Congratulations to Finch49th1stAIF for his winning photograph! He wins his choice of concept art to be printed up huge.

Finch created an amazing Christmas scene with lots of little details. But what’s really impressive about this photo is he a created a CoH Cromwell Scale model himself, with all the little details of what’s available in game, right down to the kind of fabric used for the canvas rolls.

Awesome job Finch!

FIRST PLACE WINNER:

For more info on his tank, go here: http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=314044&hl=

To check out some of the other selected best entries, go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21944107@N04/sets/72157603486716165/

Runner Up: Emil for his Chaos cookies photo. He wins his choice of a Relic shirt.

Runner Up: skaffa for his CoH scene. He wins his choice of a Relic shirt.

All winners must e-mail ahenze@relic.com with full name, mailing address, and telephone number to claim their prizes. Prizes will be shipped out before the end of January.

Thanks to everyone for participating!

Please be aware that I will be out of office from December 18th until January 13th. I will be back in the office on Monday, January 14th. For any technical support questions, please contact THQ tech support. Otherwise, I will be responding to e-mails and forum posts when I get back in the office on the 14th.

I wish everyone in the community a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

And… it’ll really be huge. I mean, enough to fill a large portion of your bedroom wall probably.

Any questions! Just post a comment here or e-mail me

Happy Holidays!

Check ‘em out!

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Also! Keep your eyes on IGN tonight for a new Soul Storm feature.

Hi everyone,

We are working diligently on resolving newly found issues with the 2.200 patch. For the individuals who manually applied the 2.200 patch while it was available; we recommend that you re-install the game and patches. We are sorry for any inconvenience and we thank you for your patience during this matter.

Relic Entertainment and one of our biggest fansites, RelicNews, are teaming up to support the Child’s Play charity. Child’s Play is a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over two million dollars in donations of toys, games, books, and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across the world have been collected since their inception.

RelicNews is running a raffle, auctioning off some neat Relic goods. At only $10 a ticket, it’s worth it.

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE DETAILS

When gamers give back, it makes a difference!

I’m turning 23! But the real reason of this post is to share this awesome birthday photo that Mike Moore drew up for me… I love his style!

Well, one of our favourite fansites, RelicNews, has their Yearbook open again this year

Go check it out, meet some of the faces behind the names on the forums…

http://www.relicnews.com/yearbook/2007

:)

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Enjoy! Thanks to Allan Dilks, Mike Moore, and Dave Cheong for the images! (respectively) They did this in their spare time! Thanks guys

Great fun! Thanks to everyone for coming out…

Thanks to the community… we had over 120 players come out for the very first Mod Day!

Thanks to the Relic employees that made it out… Nick, Sacha, Karl, Josh, Stefan, Chris, and Shawn!

Thanks to the amazing Inquisition Daemonhunt modding crew!

The following winners should E-MAIL me at ahenze@relic.com with the following: Full name, mailing address, telephone number. Please put your DC Handle in the SUBJECT of the e-mail. Thank you! You should receive your prizes within 4 weeks.

kais58: Signed Dark Crusade poster and signed Dark Crusade game
CheckThisDude: Your choice of t-shirt (specify size and shirt choice)
Tinkahbell: Opposing Fronts Game
DCPro|reeelax: Your choice of t-shirt (specify size and shirt choice)
Kendall2000: Relic pen
ILovePortal: Your choice of t-shirt (specify size and shirt choice), Relic swag
saobh: Opposing Fronts Game, Relic swag
Jianaran: Your choice of t-shirt (specify size and shirt choice), other Relic swag, and Opposing Fronts game

K4tz: Relic swag
[DowPro]Murph: Relic swag
DHmod|Cloud: Relic shotglass
Manimator: Relic swag
ColdConqueror: Relic swag
HashashinNL: Relic swag
JokiSteel: Relic swag
mel_danes: Relic swag
iron_marmot: Relic swag
Random|haTer: Relic swag
CZin|DHmod: Relic swag
Mecharius: Relic swag
Swiftmus: Relic swag
Ragnarok2504: Relic swag
Corsix: Relic swag

Thanks everyone for showing up! Please leave any suggestions you have for future mod days

What is Mod Day? It’s a scheduled day where everyone in the community gets together and plays a pre-selected mod with some Relic folks too.

Why? Well, to promote modding in the community, and a different way to play your favourite games.

Prizes? Why yes… I’m giving away some amazing Relic t-shirts. I’ll also be giving away a Dark Crusade posters signed by myself and the Lead Designer of DC. AND! Just to sweeten the pot… I’ll also be giving away some Relic stickers and a Relic shotglass! How do you win these? Just by participating… I’ll do a random draw at the end of the day and maybe award some prizes to people I see in the chat channels, etc.

So and without further ado… the mod we have chosen to play for our FIRST mod day is…

THE INQUISITION: DAEMONHUNT Mod, for Dark Crusade 1.2.

Friday, October 26th, from 12:00 pm noon until 1 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time).

MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE MOD BEFOREHAND!
This mod enables you to play a new race, the Daemonhunters. These are the troops of the Ordo Malleus, the branch of the Inquisition in charge of fighting the hordes of Chaos. The new race introduced in this mod is aimed at being balanced against the existing races in DC.

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Video Trailer

Click the link below to see download instructions!

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Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know we have been experiencing a potential database corruption issue which has manifested into an unstable connection rate for many players. We are aware of this issue and are actively working on resolving it. We apologize for any inconveniences and we thank you for your patience with this matter.

Thank you,

The Relic Team

The new RelicRank website is now up and running…. you can see it here.

Thanks to Chris Becker aka biffy, it has some awesome new features like supporting clans. Try it out! (Check out the Co. Ladder page at the bottom to see this!)

In other news, I’ve been away from the community for a couple days because I’ve been stranded in the USA for a bit. I’ll write up the story soon… it includes such things as crazy people, hitchhiking, and possible sabotage! (ooh, the sensation!)

Well, it has been a while since I’ve done a podcast… but I think this is a pretty good excuse to get one out!

Click here for the official THQ press release!

In this Podcast #4… a new game announcement from Relic! I also interview Serena Whitters from Relic, the Producer on this project.

Right-Click Save As to Download Podcast (~10 MB) MP3

Sorry for the bad quality, phones ringing in the background, etc. I didn’t have much time to put this together but I wanted to make sure I got this to you guys. Posting at 2:35 am in the morning… phew!

And just in case you can’t wait to see what content is in the podcast… (I suggest you do!)… check out these community exclusive screens from the upcoming game!

Screen 1
Screen 2
Screen 3

Hope you enjoy it!

OF will be available on Steam and Direct2Drive… however, the date is TBA. It should be out very shortly.

Edit:  Game now available on D2D and TryGames.com!

You can start downloading the patches in advance of “0-day” patch day tomorrow…

DO NOT APPLY THIS PATCH UNTIL THE SERVERS GO DOWN TOMORROW. IF YOU APPLY THIS PATCH BEFOREHAND, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME.

All of these patches are English-only.

CoH 1.40 - 2.101 (If you have the original CoH, not for OF) http://thq.vo.llnwd.net/o10/CoH/retail/EN_140_2101_Patch.exe 

CoH 1.71 - 2.101 (If you have the original CoH, not for OF) http://thq.vo.llnwd.net/o10/CoH/retail/EN_171_2101_Patch.exe

CXP 2.100 - 2.101 (You can use this with Opposing Fronts) http://thq.vo.llnwd.net/o10/CoH/retail/EN_2100_2101_Patch.exe

Thanks everyone, and enjoy!

Please vote (by posting) which day works best for you to play on..

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

And which time works best for you?
Between 8 AM PST - Noon PST
Between Noon PST - 5 PM PST

Thank you!

Our first Mod day will likely be 2 weeks from now. I will probably be selecting mods based on the order they were posted in the below blog entry, so if you feel your mod isn’t ready yet… no worries, make a post on the list when your mod is in a state you are satisfied with and you will still get a chance to participate!

Hi everyone, I’m working on putting together a really cool even (involving limited edition Relic t-shirts). I’m going to be running “Mod Days”, where everyone gets online to try out a new mod. Both the modders and people playing the mod that day will have a chance to win the t-shirts. I won’t post up what the t-shirts look like yet but I have them in my hands and they are awesome!

So, if you’re interested in getting your mod some playtime during these “Relic Game Mod Days”, please post the name of the mod, your role on the mod team, and a link to your mod in the comments of this blog post.

I’ll set something up soon!

YAY!

P.S. Any Relic game will work…. CoH, DoW, Homeworld, etc etc…

Please note that in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts we are making some changes to the way CD keys are handled from the original Company of Heroes. We are allowing users to reclaim a previously used Product Key to make a new account.

However there are some limitations:

- A Key can only be transferred 3 times, on the 3^rd time the key is banned. (exact # subject to change without notice)

- If your account has no key, (ie someone took it form you) you are banned, if you take it back you become unbanned, but the person you took it from is banned, note limitation above however.

- In the retail product you will need to insert the DVD in the drive in order to transfer the key. (But you don’t need the DVD in the drive in order to play as long as you have an internet connection)

- There is a warning on the screen that transferring a key might result in you being banned before you click accept on the transfer operation.

(Also note that in the beta since there is no DVD provided, this will not be a requirement – however it will be for the retail version of the game).

Thanks!

I’m back from vacation. It was fun… got to see all my old friends on the east cost. I took some cool pics too but you know me, I never get around to posting them. (I’ll still try!)

I’ll be getting to all your e-mails and questions shortly. There may be a bit of delay since there’s quite a high volume of e-mails in my inbox right now so please be patient!

Thanks everyone, I’m glad to be back!