It'll likely start out in North Africa, following the events of the Desert War, Operation Torch, and the Tunisia Campaign, and then finish up with the Allied invasion of Italy in the summer of 1943. Right now we're just under four hours away from finding out what this is all about, but if we had to guess, it looks like Relic is about to announce Company of Heroes 3.

Behind the footage rests a topographical map of Italy, and before that parts of North Africa (according to Rock Paper Shotgun, who looked at the countdown stream a few hours before I did). The countdown timer began on Relic's channel yesterday by showing old WW2 footage next to a countdown. Or at least, that’s what we figure they’re going to announce from the countdown timer that just appeared on Relic’s Twitch channel almost 20-hours ago. Much like the allied invasion of Normandy in the waning days of World War 2, it seems that Relic Entertainment has surprised us all with incoming news of a new Company of Heroes game.

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