{"title":"Relic Entertainment","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelic Entertainment was founded in May 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Alex Garden, Luke Moloney, Erin Daly, Aaron Kambeitz, Rob Cunningham, Gary Shaw and Shane Alfreds, and it made its name almost immediately with Homeworld in 1999, a real-time strategy game that moved the genre into fully three-dimensional space and paired its fleet combat with a somber, quietly told story of a people searching for their lost world. Impossible Creatures followed in 2003, letting players splice animals into custom armies, before the studio settled into the two series that still define it. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, from 2004 onward, brought the grim tabletop universe to the PC with squad-based combat and a focus on holding territory rather than harvesting resources, and Company of Heroes, from 2006 onward, applied the same philosophy to the Second World War with cover, suppression and destructible terrain that made every hedgerow and building matter. Publisher THQ announced on April 27, 2004 that it was acquiring Relic for close to US$10 million in an all-cash transaction, and under THQ the studio also stepped outside strategy with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine in 2011, a third-person action game that put players inside the armor of an Ultramarine captain and blended chainsword melee with bolter gunplay without ever letting either feel like an afterthought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHQ's collapse changed Relic's ownership again: on January 23, 2013, in THQ's bankruptcy proceedings, the studio was sold to Sega for US$26.6 million. The Sega years brought Company of Heroes 2, which pushed the series onto the Eastern Front with dynamic weather and a line-of-sight system that rewarded careful positioning, a stewardship of Microsoft's flagship strategy franchise with Age of Empires IV, announced in 2017, and Company of Heroes 3 in 2023, which layered a turn-based campaign map over the series' signature tactical battles. The relationship ended painfully. In May 2023 Sega laid off more than 120 employees at Relic, and on March 28, 2024 the studio announced that an external investor had helped it go independent, a transition followed in April 2024 by the loss of over 40 more staff. Relic is now an independent studio headquartered in Vancouver under CEO Justin Dowdeswell, and it has taken direct control of its legacy, appearing on Steam as both developer and publisher of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. For players, the catalog matters because Relic never treated real-time strategy as a spreadsheet: its games are about ground held, squads kept alive and the texture of a battlefield, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and Company of Heroes 2 Platinum Edition remain the clearest expressions of a studio that has spent nearly three decades making tactics feel physical.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"company-of-heroes-2-platinum-edition-pc-download","title":"Company of Heroes 2: Platinum Edition","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eCompany of Heroes 2: Platinum Edition gathers Relic Entertainment's Eastern Front real-time strategy game and all three of its standalone expansions into a single package. That means five multiplayer armies, two full single-player campaigns and every system that made the series the benchmark for squad-level WWII tactics: TrueSight line of sight, ColdTech dynamic weather, a cover system that punishes careless movement, and a combined-arms rulebook where sending riflemen at a tank is a lesson you only learn once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eEverything in the Platinum Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eCompany of Heroes 2\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe base game puts you in the boots of a Soviet commander fighting to push the Wehrmacht from Mother Russia all the way to Berlin. The campaign doubles as the best possible introduction to the series' core tenets, and it brings the Red Army and the Wehrmacht Ostheer to multiplayer.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Western Front Armies\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTwo Western Front factions join the multiplayer roster. The Oberkommando West fields specialized elite units in limited numbers, while the US Forces arrive as an expeditionary corps built for flexible combined arms, strong in infantry and support but a little short on heavy armor.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eArdennes Assault\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA dynamic, non-linear single-player campaign for the US Forces set during the Battle of the Bulge. Across 18 scenarios you choose between three iconic companies, customize their abilities and live with your decisions, because company health persists from one mission to the next.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe British Forces\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe final entry in the series adds the UKF, an army defined by the trade-off between mobility and defense. Its unique tech tree keeps opponents guessing right into an open-ended late game, with character-rich units ranging from the Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank to the RAF glider.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWarfare That Rewards Thinking\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt on the Essence Engine 3.0, Company of Heroes 2 simulates what your soldiers can genuinely see rather than revealing everything within a fixed radius. TrueSight means a hedgerow, a smoke screen or a ruined farmhouse can hide an entire anti-tank crew until the first shot lands, so scouting and positioning matter as much as production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColdTech weather changes the map beneath you. Blizzards roll in and cut visibility, exposed squads take freezing damage until they find shelter or a fire, and frozen rivers open new routes for your armor right up until the ice gives way. Add destructible environments, hard and soft counters and Commander Abilities that unlock through the match, and every engagement becomes a stream of meaningful tactical choices that can turn the tide of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFive Armies for the Multiplayer Front\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRed Army:\u003c\/strong\u003e Conscript-heavy, resilient and comfortable trading numbers for ground, with powerful late-game options such as the IS-2 and Katyusha rocket artillery when the fight drags on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWehrmacht Ostheer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Disciplined defensive play that scales into some of the game's finest armor. Grenadiers, MG42 teams and Panthers reward players who hold ground and pick their counterattacks carefully.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOberkommando West:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fewer, better units. Every squad is precious, so OKW plays like a scalpel, with elite infantry and heavy vehicles that punish overextension when they are used with discipline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUS Forces:\u003c\/strong\u003e The most flexible army on the roster, built around combined arms, mobility and support weapons rather than heavy tanks. The USF thrives in the hands of a player who keeps everything moving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBritish Forces:\u003c\/strong\u003e Emplacements, Royal Engineers and a tech tree that asks you to commit to either mobility or defense. Late-game Churchills and Comets make the patient British player very hard to dislodge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMultiplayer is shared across the whole series on your platform, so you can play on any map against anyone who owns any Company of Heroes 2 product. Competitive PvP, online co-op against the AI, Steam Workshop maps, achievements, trading cards and persistent stats are all here, and the online community remains active more than a decade after launch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTake Command\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you want to relive the Eastern Front, hold the line in the Ardennes or spend the winter learning how to beat a Panther with a well-placed ZiS gun, the Platinum Edition gives you the complete Company of Heroes 2. Pick your army, study the terrain and find out what kind of commander you are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relic Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399056268,"sku":"PC_11472482188_DL_L_RU_SS_XK","price":20.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-company-of-heroes-2-platinum-edition-pc-mac-linux-steam-game.jpg?v=1789685119"},{"product_id":"warhammer-40-000-space-marine-steam","title":"Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine puts you inside the power armor of Captain Titus, a veteran of the Ultramarines chapter, as a millions-strong Ork horde tears into the Forge World of Graia. Relic Entertainment, the studio behind Dawn of War, built a third-person action game around a simple idea: a Space Marine does not take cover, he takes the fight to the enemy. Bolter in one hand, chainsword in the other, you are the Emperor's answer to a planet that cannot be allowed to fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eHold the Line on Graia\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForge Worlds are the planet-sized factories of the Imperium, and Graia builds the Warlord-class Titans that decide wars. With an Imperial liberation fleet still en route, Titus, the stoic Sergeant Sidonus and the young, by-the-book Leandros are dropped in to hold key locations until reinforcements arrive. What starts as a holding action against the Ork Warboss Grimskull turns into something far darker as an Inquisitor's experimental power source draws the attention of the Chaos Sorcerer Nemeroth and his Chaos Space Marines. Alongside Lieutenant Mira and the surviving Imperial Guard, Titus has to decide how far a Space Marine can bend the Codex Astartes to save a world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCombat Built for a Space Marine\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no cover system in Space Marine, and that is the point. Ranged and melee weapons are always both in hand, and you swap between them mid-fight without a menu. Health does not regenerate on its own: you stun a weakened enemy and execute it in a brutal animation, and the kill restores you. The result is a rhythm no other shooter of its era had, where the safest place in a firefight is usually right in the middle of the Ork mob. Fill the Fury meter and you can trigger slow-motion aiming for headshots or wade in with melee strikes that fell Nobs and Chaos Marines alike. Armor upgrades and weapon unlocks arrive through a straightforward progression system, and the game never asks you to be anything less than a seven-foot walking tank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWeaponry of the 41st Millennium\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBolter, Stalker Bolter, Storm Bolter\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe Space Marine's signature weapon fires mass-reactive shells that explode inside the target. The standard bolter handles most fights, the stalker bolter adds a scope for picking off Ork Shootas across the manufactorum floors, and the heavy bolter turns corridors into kill zones.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePlasma Gun, Melta Gun, Lascannon\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhen Greenskin numbers stop being the problem and Chaos armor is, the heavier tools come out. The plasma gun charges for a devastating burst, the melta gun vaporizes anything at close range, and the lascannon exists for the moments when one shot has to end an argument.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eChainsword, Power Axe, Thunder Hammer\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMelee is not a backup in Space Marine. The chainsword is fast and always available, the power axe trades speed for weight, and the thunder hammer flattens groups with every swing. Each one changes your execution animations and the way you approach a crowd.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eJump Pack Assaults\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eSelected missions hand Titus an Assault Marine jump pack. Rocketing skyward and slamming back down into a pack of Orks with a thunder hammer is one of the most satisfying things the game lets you do, and it turns whole battlefields into landing zones.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMultiplayer and Exterminatus\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond the campaign, Space Marine carries a full online component that pits the loyalist chapters against the Traitor Legions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e8 vs 8 Versus:\u003c\/strong\u003e Form a Space Marine squad or a Chaos Space Marine warband and fight across Annihilation and Seize Ground modes. Choose the Tactical, Devastator or Assault Marine class, each with its own loadouts and movement style, and earn experience to unlock new weapons, perks and armor pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArmor Customizer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Build your own Marine from the chapter colors and armor components you unlock as you rank up, whether you are painting yourself in Ultramarines blue or assembling a warband in the livery of the Black Legion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterminatus Co-op:\u003c\/strong\u003e Four players hold out against escalating waves of Orks and Chaos forces across two scenarios, Assault on Hab Center Andreas and Escape From Kalkys Facility. Global leaderboards track your scores, and the experience you earn counts toward your multiplayer ranks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Grim Darkness, Done Right\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelic had already earned Games Workshop's trust with Dawn of War, and it shows in every detail here: the scale of the Titan foundries, the guttural Ork chatter, the weight of ceramite on stone, and a soundtrack that swells with choral menace whenever Chaos shows its hand. Mark Strong voices Titus with the calm authority of a warrior who has seen ten thousand battles and expects to see ten thousand more. Space Marine remains the game that showed what the Adeptus Astartes feel like from the inside. Draw your chainsword, Captain. 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