Any news about Dawn of War 3?

I'm saddened that I cannot seem to find any traces of Dawn of War III. We're closing in on August 2014 and no news. Nothing. I know Sega has the rights to both WHF and WH40K and that they're messing around with the Warhammer Fantasy license and Creative Assembly - but how that somehow should block WH40K activity, and more importantly the future of Dawn of War, is beyond me. These games were a success and in true spirit of the milking culture of today's franchises, Sega with their FM and Total War series for example, of all the IPs to freeze they froze DoW, how annoying is that. I'd like to hear some news, as I can imagine some of you guys would as well. DoW can't have been canned for good, right?

I heard nothing about this ... did they ever mention there would be a DoW3? ... I really would like to see that since DoW2 and the Addon were really great.

[edit:] Ohhh ... didn't THQ make DoW? ... It's probably dead :/

Relic too busy on Company Of Heroes and expansions I figure..

Relic made DoW and they are now owned by Sega, who currently has the rights to Warhammer. So it COULD happen.... but nothing has ever been said in relation to it.

Relic seem to be content to just make random skins and commanders for CoH2 for now.

Yeah this. Maybe we'll get another DoW another 2-4 years from now.

Dawn of War isn't canned but the third game was never in production, there is still a possibility for another one so hold out hope.

Right now they have the Vanilla and first expansion, chaos rising, of dawn of war 2 in beta. They are transferring over to Steamworks and providing dedicated servers.

The way things are shaping up, and the support they are providing Company of Heroes 2 with smaller expansions. Their next big thing is going to be Warhammer related.

Don't give up hope brothers.

Less than that, about a year or 2 at most. The latest company of heroes 2 expansion was smaller than any other previous relic expansion. They are now supporting the old Dawn of War titles with open betas. They have to be working on something right now and when things are looking pretty, they will announce. Or this all could be the optimist in me projecting.

I feel like you're right though.

They should move on from Company of Heroes 2 at this point. What a bummer that game is (which I'd say is worrying but I like Relic so much otherwise that I'll cut them slack).

How is it that the game was never in production but the wiki says this:

"Dawn of War III is the 8th release in Relics esteemed Warhammer 40.000 RTS franchise and will have a much larger strategic component to it than previous titles, focusing on a more of a global battle while still retaining the squad-based action from previous titles."

Pretty sure the Total War guys have the Warhammer Fantasy license, no 40k stuff. I don't think any games have come out yet under the Warhammer Fantasy title, though.

The 40k license is out there, used by multiple studios. I imagine that Dawn of War would be its own sub-40k franchise, though. Unless something's changed in the past 5 years or so, Blood Ravens were created just for Dawn of War and only existed in the DoW universe. Games Workshop gives access to its IP to a lot of different people, though.

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I remember reading a preview on Gamespot for the last DoW II expansion that came out where someone from Relic said they were in pre-production on the third game. But that was something like four years ago, so who knows what's going on with that.

I found this. Basically: "Relic loves DoW. No comment about plans to develop more games."

URL: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-29-relics-five-year-plan-for-company-of-heroes-2

DATED: Thursday, 29 May 2014

Company of Heroes is as important a part of Relic's future as it has been of its past, but what of Dawn of War? Back when THQ was still a thing, then core games boss Danny Bilson talked up the next entry in the much-loved Warhammer 40K strategy series, but it has yet to materialise.

So what, exactly, is going on with Dawn of War?

Duffy keeps his cards close to his chest, as you'd expect, but he does confirm that the rights to the brand survived the closure of THQ and the transition to Sega and remain with Relic. So, the studio is free to make a new Dawn of War game - if it wants.

But will it? Is a new Dawn of War being worked on?

"I can't say," Duffy replies. "We have a brilliant relationship with Games Workshop. We'd love to do something. It's a no comment on that."

It's clear Dawn of War remains close to Relic's heart. The studio even has a Dawn of War franchise design lead, Philippe Boulle, who recently served notice that all the Dawn of War games would be transferred to Steam in a bid to keep their multiplayer portions going.

So it's obvious Dawn of War is still alive. And so I press.

"It's a great franchise," Duffy says. "I love the Dawn of War stuff. It's a strong part of our history. Relic has some strong IPs. Dawn of War is almost an IP in of itself. It gave people the feeling they had from the tabletop. It was a great translation of the world. People at Relic play the game, they love it, and they're very sensitive about doing it right."

Given how lacklustre recent Warhammer 40K licensed games have been, fingers crossed someone somewhere deep within the bowels of Relic Entertainment is beavering away on a new game in the Dawn of War series.

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That last part about lackluster Warhammer 40K licensed games couldn't be more true in my opinion. Most recently: Warhammer 40,000: Storm of Vengeance is a good example of something that just seems thrown together for a quick buck on mobile phones (and PC apparently, yikes!). The MMO project, the Eternal Crusade, while in alpha looks really generic and again a game comes out that doesn't do the IP justice on PC.

Dawn of War 1 is my favorite multiplayer strategy game of all time and Dawn of War 2 has to be top 5 as far as single player goes. If they're taking their time to make sure they don't fuck it up, they're doing it right.

Where's that artillery?!!

Has it been confirmed that Sega actually owns the DoW license? My understanding is that wasn't acquired when they purchased Relic and that as of a few months ago there was no actual rights holder for the Dawn of War franchise.

Last thing I ever remember reading was this article.