A bit of sad tangential news here, but one of the Lead Developers at Relic Entertainment, currently working on the next Company of Heroes game, perished this weekend in a tragic car accident, but managed to become the hero himself by sacrificing himself to save his wife and unborn child.

With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-year old North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force of the head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby..

“All the policeman say that if we had hit the car head-on all of us would be dead. At the very last second (Brian) braked really hard and turned right so that he would be put in the path of the SUV and not me and the baby, and that is the only thing that saved us both.

RIP Brian Wood.  You can send your condolences here.

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