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Rumor spreading fast via Twitter on Sunday holds that THQ has canceled its entire 2014 slate of releases to position the company for sale. More »
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"Exterminatus," the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release Oct. 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an "early October" release. More »
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Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes mixes the player-versus-player combat of Warhammer Online with the champion system of games like DOTA to create a unique free-to-play competitive online experience. Meet Felicia. She'll be your Bright Wizard today. More »
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Mark Strong, the actor who voices Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine's Captain Titus, is new to the Warhammer world. After getting a taste of Warhammer, he says he want to "take a big swim" in the universe. More »
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Upcoming title Warhammer 40,000 gets a a handful of short trailers that should loop in newcomers and get old hands excited. More »
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The next iteration of Warhammer Online will be a free-to-play online PC game, focused on three-way team combat, as announced by BioWare chief Ray Muzyka at an EA showcase in Germany for Gamescom today. More »
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Earlier today, a post on the official forum for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine said that cooperative multiplayer for the game would not be available at launchand would be added into the game 30 days after launch "give or take." The post has since been removed, but publisher THQ has yet to confirm any plans or availability for the feature. More »
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The only problem with this thrilling cinematic trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is that I'm not entirely clear on who is supposed to be war. I only know someone is, and they're quite vehement about it. More »
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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 »
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HeroQuest, an "entry-level" Warhammer game first released in 1989, was at the time a fairly primitive affair, limited to a board, some cards and the player pieces. So Damien Thévenin has spent a few years fixing the game up a little. More »
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In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only this game: Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. More »
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This is Metal Gear Tau Rex, a re-imagining of the bipedal nuclear threat as made famous by Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation. Warhammer miniature fan Caiin injected some Ork Tau flavor into Metal Gear lore last fall. Seen on Work In Progress, via Reddit. More »
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The Warhammer 40,000 universe's descriptive tagline—"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war"—does not sound like a cheery fantasy in which many of us would like to find ourselves. More »
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The PC will still be alive and thriving in the year 40,000, it seems. THQ is adding Windows-based PCs to the list of platforms it will support for the upcoming Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, due in "early 2011." More »
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This has nothing to do with Starcraft the game and everything to do with Starcraft the universe. More »
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Australia's Connect Furniture targets the loveseat-shopping Warhammer and World of Warcraft crowd, as seen at Ads of the World. Bonus naked fairy furniture shopping marketing after this... More »
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After job advertisements and some exquisite leaked footage prematurely lifted the lid on the game last year, THQ have just officially announced Space Marine, a Warhammer 40K "Action RPG". More »
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This new Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II faction feature is heavy on orks and light on "Whaaagh." More »
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You get Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta access! And you get Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta access! And you get Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta access! More »
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Developers Relic - otherwise known as "they who can not put a foot wrong" - have released both the minimum and recommended specs for Dawn of War 2. Worried? Let's take a look. More »
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When asked how he would like to be remembered after his death, comedian Emo Phillips replied "Just by a small family gathering, once a year.. on Emo Phillips Day." More »
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Most of the Rock, Paper, Shotgun guys recently posted their thoughts on the Warhammer Online closed beta; they were descended upon by WAR supporters (some rabid, some a little more even-tempered) for drawing more comparisons between WoW and WAR. After this little display of MMO chest thumping, Alec Meer put up a thoughtful piece on why it is that WoW has become a dirty word, both in and out of the industry, and why people are so quick to leap to vociferous defense of their games: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5046327&view=rss&microfeed=true Click to viewWe know THQ are working on a Warhammer brawler. And that it's both "brutal" and "intimate". Now, courtesy of this leaked demo vid, we know that it's called Warhammer 40K: Space Marine and, more importantly, we know how it looks. And boy does it look great. Bearing in mind this is early, raw footage (so excuse the empty levels and clunky run animation), the way they've already nailed the heavy and, yes, brutal feel of both the combat and the universe itself should have Warhammer fans excited. More »
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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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5039209&view=rss&microfeed=true There's a new Dawn of War II trailer doing the rounds, no doubt minted in honour of the week's E3 festivities. Its purpose seems two-fold: to show that Relic, bless them, aren't afraid to put out a trailer comprised solely of gameplay footage, and also (SHOCK) to announce that the Eldar will be amongst the game's races. More »
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A few months ago, Kieron Gillen sat down with Paul Barnett, EA Mythic's Creative Director, and has been posting bits and pieces of that interview session ever since; this week, we were treated to one of the best cynical descriptions of GDC ever. Barnett explains why, despite being asked to go, he declined the chance to go to GDC and went to the LIFT futurism festival instead: More »
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To go with their preview trailer of the game, IGN recently spent some time with Relic and Dawn of War II, and came away with some new details on the game. Two of which are particularly exciting. The first: the campaigns won't be linear. Instead, you'll be able to jump in a ship and tackle them in the order of your choosing, ala KOTOR/Mass Effect. The second: you'll be abe to customise individual troops, not just the overall paint scheme of your army. With your forces split into squads, each squad leader will have his own distinct personality, and you'll be able to customise the appearance and equipment of his individual troops. Kind of like X-Com, and how you grew so attached to the little guys, only it's Warhammer 40K. Making it even awesomer. More »
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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 »
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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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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 »
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VG247 are reporting that Relic are already hard at work on Warhammer: Dawn of War 2. Makes sense. The first - and its legions of expansion packs - are the best Warhammer games since Space Hulk, and really succeeded in bringing the franchise to life. Still, if true, the good news is tinged with a little sadness: I was really hoping Relic would be doing Homeworld 3 instead (though, hey, they might be doing both!) More »
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As promised, EA Mythic revealed the final two armies for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at the Games Convention last month, and here are some hot concept arts and renders of the dark elves and high elves to prove it. The high elves in particular bring to mind Michael Moorcock's famous antihero Elric, which of course means you'll find yourself fighting against or alongside a whole horde of Elriks and Lrics come the games launch, along with the requisite dark elf rangers named Drizzzzt. Hit the jump for the back story on these two new factions. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296054&view=rss&microfeed=true EA Mythic wants you to know how much work they are putting into developing each individual character class for the upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. First they feature the Chaos Zealot in a batch of concept art, and now a full-blown gallery of screenshots and concepts spanning 17 images for the Empire's Warrior Priest career. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=245861&view=rss&microfeed=true EA Mythic has unleashed a slew of new Warhammer Online concept art on an unsuspecting public. The art depicts monsters, some buildings and landscapes, and the creepy concept design drawing for the Chaos Zealot profession, the main healing and buffing profession for the minions of Chaos, who seek to recover the seven chaos emeralds before Sonic in order to enslave the world, or else I'm getting my games mixed up again. Michael Fahey More »
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The MMO with the greatest chance at taking away a substantial chunk of World of Warcraft's player base might be invading a gaming event near you over the course of the next several months, as EA Mythic announces dates for the 2007 Warhammer Online event tour. Mainly hitting Games Days and Comic-Cons, gamers will get a chance to try out the game's realm vs. realm combat, with 50 luck winners from each event winning beta access. And oh look, they are coming to Atlanta in April evil grin).What follows is their press release and schedule, which spans the New York Comic-Con later this month all the way to PAX in August. We all know EA is hungry to be number one, so I expect this will just be the tip of the iceberg on what is sure to be a massive push to get Age of Reckoning firmly planted in the hearts and minds of gamers everywhere. Michael Fahey More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=236633&view=rss&microfeed=true The Warhammer guys are really putting Blizzard to shame with their CGI trailers these days. This one for the upcoming PC RTS Warhammer: Mark of Chaos was done by Digic Pictures, who also worked on digitially buffing the abs of a certain pudgy California governor in Terminator 3. More »
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