Kotaku: Warhammer 40k

Doom, Meet Warhammer 40k. Warhammer 40k, Meet Doom.

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:00 EST

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This was once, in a former life, an entire army of Warhammer 40K miniatures. It is now one of the greatest tributes to id's classic Doom I've ever seen. More »

This New Warhammer 40,000 Arcade Shooter Doesn't Seem Very Warhammer-y

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:20:00 EDT

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When I think Warhammer 40,000 I'm thinking deep strategic battles and hours spent hovering over a table covered with painstakingly painted metal figures; epic wars fought on a grand scale. I definitely don't think fast-paced cooperative arcade shooter. Someone evidently did, however, and that's why there's Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, coming next month to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network from THQ. More »

Warhammer Games Have Rarely Been Darker, or Better, Than This

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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The Warhammer 40K universe has been a happy hunting ground for game developers over the years, with over a dozen games having been released based on the storied sci-fi franchise. More »

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Is An Ominous, Imposing and Faithful Bloodbath

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:00:00 EDT

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is still a big, thunderous shoot 'em up mixed with Ork-eviscerating action. Not much has changed here: Space Marine is booming, bloody violence in the most unpleasant of alien environments. More »

Dawn Of The LEGO Space Marines

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:40:00 EDT

Warhammer 40,000's oft-imitated Space Marines get the LEGO brick treatment—rivaling StarCraft II's LEGO Thor—as assembled by master builder Jarec. Seen on Flickr, via The Brothers Brick. More »

Leave R2 Alone, Space Marine!

Brian Crecente — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:40:00 EDT

I spotted this Warhammer 40K space marine harassing an R 2 unit today at Gamescom. More »

In The Future, There Is Only Team Fortress 2

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EDT

Team Fortress...Warhammer 40K...two very different beasts, but bring them together and you've got...a very different beast. More »

In The Future There Are Only Incredible Case Mods

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:30:00 EDT

At first glance, I thought this was a statue. Maybe, if I was lucky, some constructive Warhammer 40K cosplay. Turns out, no, it's something even better: a bipedal PC case mod. More »

Before Starcraft, There Were Space Marines

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EDT

This has nothing to do with Starcraft the game and everything to do with Starcraft the universe. More »

An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:30:00 EST

Texas-based developer Vigil have been working on a Wargammer 40K MMO for years now. And in all that time, have shown only a single piece of concept art. Let's add a little to that, eh? More »

Dawn of War II Co-op Campaign: An Identity Crisis?

AJ Glasser — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:00:00 EST

Campaign mode in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II feels more like a role-playing game than an real-time strategy one. But with a little co-op action, it starts to feel more like a trading card game. More »

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2 - Tyranids, Battle Strategies, and Smack

AJ Glasser — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War always intimidated me with the number of factions, units, and command points I had to babysit. More »

THQ Australia Working On "Brutal" Warhammer 40K Brawler

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:30:00 EDT

Looks like THQ have plans to wage an endless war on humanity's wallets. Not only are they (well, they and Relic) serving up Dawn of War II and a "ready when it's done" 40K MMO, but job listings appearing on THQ Australia's website reveal the company also have plans for a 40K "action game" for the 360 and PS3. The company site doesn't out-and-out name the project, saying "We are currently looking for people to work on a next-gen brutal, intimate melee combat game using a world-class brand", but a listing on a local recruitment page gives the game away, using 40K as its main selling-point. Games based on 40K that aren't Space Hulk or Dawn of War have generally sucked, but who knows, a "brutal, intimate" combat game on a PS3/360 might yet be able to take the Dawn of War intro and make a game out of it. More »

Wait, This Is Good Games PR

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:40:00 EDT

Forget everything I said about that Ectomobile stunt a few months back. Because that was too damn easy. It's just a car! All you gotta do is tart it up a little! No, our new "above and potentially too far beyond the call of duty" award for gaming PR goes to THQ's UK branch, who to kick off Dawn of War II's publicity campaign in earnest have set about...building a real Rhino tank from Warhammer 40K. To do this, they've got hold of an ex-British Army APC, are modifying the bodywork with some heavy welding and will fill the cargo space with banks of PC demo rigs. Madness. More »

THQ Signs Up With GameTap

Mike Fahey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:20:00 EDT

While Turner Broadcasting's GameTap service gave us a scare awhile back by cutting off it's editorial arm, the game download side of things is still as strong as ever, and growing even strong still as they announce a long-term partnership with THQ to include the publisher's games on the service. This will add existing games like Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40K, Titan Quest and Red Faction to the service, while securing future titles such as Saint's Row 2. More »

First Proper Details On Warhammer 40K MMO

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:00 EDT

We know a Warhammer 40K MMO is coming, we know it's "years away", and we know I'm terribly excited about the whole thing. Aside from that, though, we don't really know squat. Do now! Last month's PC Gamer ran a big feature on the game (of which we've already posted some scraps), which finally got us some answers to some of the more burning questions surrounding the game. Like what kind of game it was, exactly. Vigil's David Adams: More »

Wage An Endless War Against This Warhammer 40K MMO Info

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:20:00 EDT

A two-year wait gives us plenty of time to read up on THQ's Warhammer 40K MMO, so you can take your time with this. A sentence a week should ration things out nicely. The latest issue of PC Gamer has some real, actual information on the project, including the fact there'll be large-scale combat, you can naturally form squads/chapters and that, according to creative director Joe Madureira, there'll be "tons of stuff hanging off your character, weapons, scrolls... we are going to have the coolest looking characters of any MMO, ever". Oh, and fans of Space Hulk, know that the game will feature, amongst stuff like crumbling cities and alien temples, the ability to explore space hulks.
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Warhammer 40K MMO Still "Years Away"

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:30:00 EDT

As a general rule, I hate MMOs. Elves, grinding, enchanted amulets, yuck. Though I've always set aside a condition that, should I ever run into one that's both decent and based on a franchise or IP that I'm keen on, I'd at least dip my toes in the shallow end. Perhaps the only one to potentially meet this condition at this stage is THQ's Warhammer 40K MMO, so it's with a slightly pathetic frown on my face that I hear THQ CEO Brian Farrell saying the project's "probably still a couple of years out". Bummer. More »

Teardown's Space Hulk Torn Down

Mike Fahey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:40:08 EST

Back on Tuesday we posted about an excellent free-to-play update to the video game of the board game Space Hulk, crafted loving by a team calling themselves Teardown with "the blessing of both EA and the Games Workshop." Since then they've had nothing but trouble, first with bandwidth issues after gamers flocked to the site to download 327 gigs worth of data, and then with Games Workshop, who kindly asked them to pull the game from the downloads section. Apparently the whole blessings thing was a bit of a reach. From the latest Teardown news post:

We still havn't had any contact with Games Workshop. We called them but they told us that someone would get back as soon as they could. Perhaps the fact that they do not chase us around 24 hours a day is a good sign? We'll soon find out. once more thank you for all conerns and support. Time will tell if it is worth something.

I don't expect this to end well. Those of you who downloaded the game enjoy it, because I've a feeling we won't be seeing it again. More »

Space Hulk Gets A Touch-Up

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:30:00 EST

You've either played Space Hulk (the "accessible" board game) or Space Hulk (the old PC/Amiga/3D0 game) by now. I'm just going to assume that. This, then, is truly a pleasant surprise: A group of guys going by the name Teardown have, with the blessing of both EA and the Games Workshop, released a free-to-play update of the old classic. It lacks the first-person mode of the old computerised version, but anyone aching for another go-round of the board game will find this does the job quite nicely. More »