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To celebrate Company of Heroes 2’s fifth anniversary, Sega and Relic Entertainment are giving away the PC game for free on Steam. 

You only have until tomorrow (December 10 at 12 p.m. CT)  to grab it at no cost. The anniversary celebration is a bit late, as the game came out in June 2013, but Sega seems to be making up for it by letting you download the game for free.

Additionally, two DLC for the game, The British Forces and Ardennes Assault, are discounted on Steam until tomorrow. They are 75 percent off.

You can read our review of Company of Heroes 2, which we gave an 8/10, by heading here.

[Source: Steam]

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With the release of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it’s time for players to undergo a time-honored tradition: unlocking a bunch of Nintendo characters over the course of a few hours.

In his otherwise glowing review of Ultimate, Jeff Cork does point out that the unlocking schtick is getting old. “It’s an unnecessarily tedious and antiquated process,” he said. Do you agree?

Personally, I’m kind of over it. I just want to play as Duck Hunt, Dedede and Snake already. The World of Light mode is okay, but I don’t want to feel like I have to play it to unlock everyone. I know there are other ways to do it, but nothing I’ve seen is fast or simple enough for me to want to really engage with it. At the same time, there’s a part of me that knows if all the characters were unlocked from the start, I’d be less motivated to play overall.

Let us know what you think in the comments.

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Although today’s Kinda Funny Games Showcase had some interesting PlayStation-related news, there seemed to be a notable lack of announcements from the company itself. This was especially noticeable in light of the lack of a PSX show this year, where Sony usually has plenty of major announcements up its sleeve. However, that may not mean we’ll be dying for Sony-related news for much longer.

Replying to a tweet from a fan and streamer about the lack of PlayStation-related info that came out of Thursday’s The Game Awards show (especially compared to some of bombs Nintendo dropped that night), Shawn dropped a short but very meaningful message: “see you in the new year.”

The tweet is especially significant in light of Sony’s dropping out of E3, the other show where it tends to show its hand. Hopefully, we’ll find out what the tweet means soon.

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Today, Youtube Channel Kinda Funny Games unveiled its Games Showcase, in which it debuted trailers for nearly 70 games in a little over an hour. It was an interesting small-scale montage of new info. There’s a lot of neat info to sift through! But don’t worry: We watched the entire thing and have cherry-picked the bits of news you should pay attention to.

News Game Trailers And Details

Judgment Gets A Release Window, English Cast
As with most “conferences” of this sort, the best news saved for last. Yakuza developer’s new game, Judgment, received a Western released date and trailer, including the first sampling of its English cast. You can learn more about it here.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s Second Episode Has A Release Date 
After a turbulent development cycle, the team now working The Walking Dead’s final season, now called “Still Not Bitten,” announced the release date for the next episode: January 17. You can learn more about that announcement here.

There’s A New Conan The Barbarian Tower-Defense Game
Former Command & Conquer devs are working with Funcom on Conan Unconquered, a new strategy game set in that game’s universe. Here’s the rundown.

The Messenger Gets Free DLC Next Year
Picnic Panic brings The Messenger to a more tropical setting next year with three (free!) new levels.

Super Meat Boy Forever Comes Out In April
Along with a new trailer, we got one of the most important details about Team Meat’s latest game: A release window.

YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG Comes Out January 17
Drawing from lots of interesting sources, the very weird YIIK is a little over a month away.

Cute Puzzle Game A Fold Apart Gets A New Trailer
A Fold Apart isn’t out yet but is already getting awards. If you haven’t seen this trippy, cute puzzle game in action before, here’s your chance.

Moving Out Is Physics-Based Puzzler About Moving Out Of Your Apartment
Sometimes you just gotta move a dead giraffe, you know what I mean?

The Minds Behind The Pinball FX Series Are Making A Dungeon-Crawler
Operencia: The Stolen Sun looks pretty neat.

Long Gone Days Leaves Early Access Next April
The promising military-tinged RPG is already available in early access, but the full release is just around the corner.

Away: Journey To The Unexpected Gets A Trio Of Release Dates
Away’s Art style is very intriguing, and nice match for its first-person RPG gameplay. It’s out February 5 on PS4, February 7 on Switch, February 8 on Xbox One, and “later” on PC.

Fight Knight Brings The Action To PS4, Switch, And PC Next Year
The violent first-person brawler looks like a nice way to take out your aggression in retro form.

Other Noteworthy Headlines

There were also some interesting tidbits about games that have already released.

• Slay The Spire, The PC card game doing well on steam, is coming to Switch next year.
• Bioware did an in-depth breakdown of the Anthem trailer they showed off at The Game Awards.
• All three Danganronpa games will be available as one collection on PS4, with a new collector’s edition that includes an artbook.
• Windjammers and Celeste are getting new physical version on December 21 and January 1, respectively, courtesy of Limited Run Games.
• Mike Bithell’s Quarantine Circular is coming to Switch.

There were, of course, more games than we could fit here. If you want to watch the entire showcase and see if anything else catches your fancy, you can watch the archive right here.

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Tales of Crestoria, the next game in the Tales series heading to mobile, has finally been confirmed to have a Western release, and we won’t have to wait too much longer for it.

An official Tales of Crestoria English account recently popped up on Twitter, and has been posting character-based teasers for the last few hours. It also posted the first English-language teaser trailer for the game.

We don’t know too much about Crestoria as of right now, but we have a rather basic outline. For one, sin looks to be a theme this time around, as the character teasers had a wanted posted look to them, with characters talking about something they did the world thought was a sin. We also know that, as a mobile title, there is likely to be microtransactions, as players who pre-register for the game will receive “summoning tickets” based on the number of total people who do the same.

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