THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced Company of Heroes™: Opposing Fronts™, developed by award-winning Real-Time Strategy (RTS) developer Relic Entertainment, has shipped for the Windows PC platform. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the next installment in the highest-rated RTS franchises of all time, building on the success of the original Company of Heroes™ with two new armies and vastly enhanced multiplayer options. The game is now available at major retail outlets worldwide. -Planet Company of Heroes

For more details, visit the official Web site- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.

On Monday, September 24, 2007, WordPress version 2.3 was released to the public. For information on the changes and improvements in this new version, see Changelog for 2.3.

With a lot of significant changes to the latest release, upgrading has to be done with utmost care. Please make a back-up of your databases, posts, themes, and plugins. There are plenty of plugins affected in this release, so make sure that your plugins are included in the Plugin Compatibility List for version 2.3. In the case of this blog, one plugin had to be disabled until a working version comes out.

You may download a stable version of WordPress 2.3 at the official site.

September 18, 2007

Sierra Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, has delivered World in Conflict, the game unanimously chosen as the Best Strategy Game of E3 2007 to retail stores across North America today for the personal computer. The highly anticipated action-strategy game was created by Massive Entertainment, a Sierra Entertainment internal studio, and is available in both Standard and Collectors Edition versions for a suggested retail price of $49.99 and $59.99 respectively.

Sierra Entertainment is extremely proud to have delivered World in Conflict, one of the premier PC games of 2007, the best strategy game of the year and a title that will appeal to fans of all genres, said Martin Tremblay, president of worldwide studios, Sierra Entertainment. World in Conflict represents the next-generation of PC gamng, effectively blurring the lines between strategy, action and first-person-shooter with amazing DX10 graphics, groundbreaking multiplayer, and a deep, emotional single player game. Read more…

I got the chance to play World in Conflict online during the open beta event two months ago and it was a lot of fun. World in Conflict kept me occupied for a month because of that (until the beta ended). This time with the single player mode finally available, players will have a chance to go through the campaign which starts at various parts of the United States, followed by the Soviet-occupied Europe, then to Russia and lastly, back to the United States for the grand finale. The single player campaign wasn’t included in the beta version of the game, by the way.