‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine’ Being Developed

THQ has officially confirmed work on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, yet another game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop’s gritty tabletop universe. Relic has again been handed developer duties on the title, though unlike Dawn of War, the console-focused Space Marine will be an action RPG that lets players control individual units through a “narrative-driven story campaign and in wide-scale online battles.”

In development for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, it’s unclear what ties, if any, the project has to the leaked Space Marine footage that made the rounds late last year. However, judging from this IGN-hosted trailer, the game certainly looks to keep more with 40K‘s combat-heavy fiction when it eventually decides to chainsword retail shelves.

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Dawn of War II Gets Major Update This Month

If you’ve spent the past couple months enjoying THQ’s Warhammer-ed RTS, Dawn of War II, you might want to brace yourself for a massive influx of new content coming soon in “Patch 1.3.” Chief among these is a new 2v2 multiplayer mode (as well as two new maps which compliment this mode), UI improvements, push-to-talk voice chat, new squad decorations and a few “significant” AI improvements.

The update is due out in “early May,” which is … right now! Keep an eye out for a firmer launch date — we’re sure to hear it soon.

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