THQ will develop a new Company of Heroes game

[Blackbishop]

Hello Eastern Front fans,

After the blackout event in favor of the protests against SOPA/PIPA and the closure of Megaupload and other cyberlockers, we have good news for you from THQ and the next installement of Company of Heroes. A few hours ago THQ announced that they will develop new games for several of their franchises, being Company of Heroes one of them.

The company’s five internal studios are developing games aligned to several of THQ’s key franchises, including the upcoming launch of UFC® Undisputed™ 3 and Darksiders® II, as well as Company of Heroes, inSANE, Saints Row, Warhammer 40,000, and the new title from Patrice Désilets and his team.

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THQ will discuss its new streamlined business model that reflects this strategy in more detail on its third quarter 2012 conference call scheduled for Thursday, February 2, 2012.

And so the bet starts, which front is going to be done? The Pacific one with Japaneses and new mechanics? The Eastern Front scenario with soviets? Only the time will tell, what it is certain is that we will need to hurry then to finish Ostheer, otherwise we are going to become obsolete if the Eastern Front theater is chosen !


Source: THQ News Release (thanks to Pariah for the heads up ).


New COH2 website is now live!
http://www.companyofheroes.com/


Regards,
The Eastern Front Team

[neosdark]

Pretty sure it was Fish who gave the heads up Bishop

Look what I found guys :

http://www.gamereplays.org/companyofheroes/portals.php?show=news&news_id=860786

Any authenticity to this? Anyone think THQ will actually develop a new faction that could alter the COH gaming field or are they just blowing smoke and are going to release another stupid TOV 

[Blackbishop]

Nope, Pariah was but in a PM ... just that was a little busy at that moment.

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
http://investor.thq.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96376&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1652344&highlight=

The company’s five internal studios are developing games aligned to several of THQ’s key franchises, including the upcoming launch of UFC® Undisputed™ 3 and Darksiders® II, as well as Company of Heroes, inSANE, Saints Row, Warhammer 40,000, and the new title from Patrice Désilets and his team.

Feel free to post an announcement of you like.

[neosdark]

Ahh, well how come he hasn't posted here in ages?

[Tankbuster]

Hope it will be an RTS.

[BurroDiablo]

Small point... the ' third quarter 2012 conference call' will detail Q3 2011 which ended on 31st December, not Q3 2012, so it's not a hint at a release date or anything Although Q3 2012 would be nice.

Ahh, well how come he hasn't posted here in ages?

He needs to keep hold of his money somehow Surprised he's not living in a cardboard box the amount of money he gave out.

[SublimeSnugz]

Me like! Don't fuck this one up relic

[BurroDiablo]

Might be wishful thinking. If DoWIII is anything to go by, a free-to-play type game supported by micro-transactions, CoH2 will most likely be the same. It could work, you never know, but personally the prospect of having micro-transactions in game bugs the fuck out of me. It'll no longer be about skill, just who has the most money to burn.

[Chancellor]

Who cares about this shit...its going to be what Relic makes it, and IMO talking about it is no use.  Now wheres the fucking patch?  I don't know, or care, about what anyone else thinks, but for me, I'd rather be reading patch notes and doing more shoutcasts rather than reading some useless shit about SOPA or CoH2.

Last I heard, the balance was already 100% ready a while ago.  Someone's wanking.

[777mais777]

Might be wishful thinking. If DoWIII is anything to go by, a free-to-play type game supported by micro-transactions, CoH2 will most likely be the same. It could work, you never know, but personally the prospect of having micro-transactions in game bugs the fuck out of me. It'll no longer be about skill, just who has the most money to burn.

Likely will make CoH from the third person(face) or from the first person.

[Sommarkatze]

Iam happy so long they make something new! Like a new front or anything! ( Korea <3)
 If they just make vanilla coh with better graphics a lá DOWII style! I will be disapointed only getting clothes for christmas style!! :C

[Pac-Fish]

As long a COH 2 isn't completely retarted (as in fucks with balance or is complete sh#t and is a wate of money) then sure, lets see it

Even if there is a Official EF, I will still be loyal to this mod  . We've already balanced it and what not. I'll just plat it less that's all

@Yauz: Im under the impression the patch is under going last minute changes  . Hence why it wasn't released Monday

[Jeff 'Robotnik' W.]

I really hope it will be like COHO, that game was pretty fun

if not i at least hope that it will have modding support



or maybe it will just be another expansion

[Cranialwizard]

...I'd rather be reading patch notes and doing more shoutcasts rather than reading some useless shit about SOPA or CoH2.

Because of SOPA your shoutcast would become illegal and you could be fined and face jail time for them, not to mention they'd be deleted.

[Alexander 'ApeMen' J.]

indeed
im worried about the inet future. SOPA is realy dangerous

@robotnik
i realy realy REALY hope CoH2 will not be like CoH:O
but plz dont get me wrong, coh:o had some nice ideas

i would like to have customization in coh2
but not with heroes...
the heros shit was pretty crappy