Beyond this, there was plenty of new gameplay, showcasing the Orcs and the Imperial Guard. Massive battles were promised, and Creative Assembly delivers, but even closer to the ground, the details are immaculate. It’s especially satisfying to see explosions ring out and limbs go flying everywhere.

As incredible as the battles look, the team is working hard to ensure varied environments with its planet-making system. Even if you happen upon an ice planet, various factors can significantly alter its makeup. For example, Arid conditions will ensure more craters while Temperate conditions will result in ice and rocks around settlements.

The sheer variety is pretty impressive, especially when considering architecture and verticality during combat. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC, and while a release date remains unknown, a closed beta is coming. You can sign up here to note your interest, though once again, when it will go live remains to be announced. Stay tuned for updates in the meantime.

However, your commander is quite miffed at his counterpart among the Orks, who have swarmed all over Minerva’s Armageddon subsystem with reckless impunity. It’s time to teach them a lesson in the art of war that they’re not likely to forget. The Imperum of Man is all set to enact a swift and brutal counterattack, and we think Minerva is going to be the start of a very long and bloody campaign.

If you’re wondering what we’re on about, this one marks Creative Assembly’s first foray into the Warhammer universe, and is shaping up to be quite an intriguing offering in the strategy genre. The broadcast/trailer for the game ends with the ominous reminder that there is no peace among the stars, a sign of many battles to come.

A release window would have been a welcome addition to the trailer below, but it seems that it may be closer than expected. At 0:37, the words, “Next Transmission Update Scheduled — 17 Cycles.” If each Cycle is one day, that means an update at the PC Gaming Show, set for June 7th.

With this being the first Total War title to launch on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5, a launch date announcement seems all but a given. Stay tuned for more updates until then.

Unfortunately, there isn’t any further information or a release date – just the promise that it’s “coming soon.” Since launch, there have been two Legendary Warbonds for Killzone and Halo 3: ODST, which added armor sets, weapons, and cosmetics from both titles. The biggest difference from Premium Warbonds is that they cost 1,500 Super Credits instead of 1,000 ($10).

It’s almost a given that the Warhammer 40,000 Legendary Warbond will feature armor sets based on the Space Marines, but which Chapters? The Ultramarines are likely a shoo-in alongside the Blood Angels and the Space Wolves. You can also likely expect iconic weapons like the Boltgun and Chainsword, but once again, we’ll have to wait and see.

In the meantime, Helldivers 2 will receive a patch on May 27th to add support for AMD FSR, DLSS 4.5, XeSS 3.0, and PSSR support for PS5 Pro players. It’s also working on new Campaigns for Galactic War that last several weeks alongside improving the progression systems and much more. Head here for more details.

A key aspect of the game described by the duo is the sheer sense of scale. The planet showcased, for example, will have one of four biomes that have been confirmed for the game so far—arid, temperate, ice, and waste. Each planet will also have its own type of civilization, from sparsely populated frontier planets to fully civilized hive worlds. Players will take on battles from region to region on the continents of these planets, and each star system will have a “handful” of planets. Without going into specifics, McDowell noted that “It’s going to be dozens and dozens of planets in a system.”

“It gives a really cool opportunity for you to encounter more desolate wasteland places,” explained Petry. “You can imagine when you end up fighting on the perimeters of these hives, you’re going to have these wasteland battles effectively that are pretty much empty. Like some bits punctuating things, but largely it’s pretty desolate out there, bar a few points of interest. And then of course, when you work your way towards and into an actual hive, you’re going to be fighting these much more dense, much more choke point-oriented battles.”

We also get a look at a battle map from the Hive World, dubbed the Upper Hive Plateau. “There’s going to be a really, really wide variety of spaces that you can fight in this game,” Petry said. “You’re going to be able to fight in much more dense environments and much more sparse ones.”

Throwing another wrench into the in-game worlds will be the fact that players will get to leave their marks on the battlefield. This means structures and geographical features can be affected. For example, forests offering cover to enemy soldiers can be destroyed.

“One thing that we found with this universe is that everything is on such an incredible scale,” said Petry. “That even these intense spaces, when you get down into actually looking at them, are absolutely huge. There are these massive areas that you can conduct combat within, so even when you’re dealing with these intense spaces, often, actually, the spaces you can work through are still pretty sizable.”

“You can fit a sizable army in a lot of these spaces. And then in many of those spaces where things do get tight, there are opportunities to remove buildings, make it a little bit bigger if that’s your playstyle. If you’ve got an army that really values line of sight, then that can really, really help you there because, ‘I don’t want those. Get rid of them.’”

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is being developed for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. It doesn’t yet have a release date, however.

Players can look forward to an all-new campaign and new multiplayer modes. Details on the setting, factions and mechanics are “tightly under wraps” for now, and there’s no release date (though it’s “likely years away”). The platforms also remain a mystery. Based on the key art, at least Captain Titus is returning.

However, the press release says players can look forward to “innovations that will redefine the standards of third-person action games.” “We view this as an opportunity to create a true love letter to the Warhammer 40,000 universe.”

The companies will reveal more information when they can, so stay tuned. In the meantime, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Check out our review for the base game, which has over six million players.

Since its launch, the third-person shooter has received new multiplayer maps, Operations, weapons, and other features. Patch 7.0 is coming up but Steam players can try it out now courtesy of a Public Test Server. Head here for more details.

Rountree acknowledges that the history of Warhammer 40,000 video games is spotty, and that the company making money off releases like Space Marine 2 and Speed Freeks isn’t something it can take for granted. Rountree goes on to talk about how, while remaining cautious when it comes to future royalties, the company is now on the lookout for its next big hit.

“We recognize that successes like these for Warhammer are not a given in the world of video games. Clearly we are looking for the next one. We remain cautious when forecasting royalty income,” said Rountree in the investor report.

Developed by World War Z studio Saber Interactive, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a single-player action-adventure game that puts players in the shoes of Ultramarine captain Demetrian Titus. After having spent quite a bit of time with the Death Watch squad as punishment for the events of the original Space Marine, Titus finds himself once more a member of the Ultramarines as he gets ready to stop a Tyranid invasion, and eventually uncovers a greater conspiracy by the forces of Chaos.

Space Marine 2 was released back in September 2024, and quickly became a massive hit. The game’s three-day early access release itself managed to get more than 134,000 concurrent players, and on full release, the game quickly shot up the sales chart. According to a report from November, more than 5 million players had played Space Marine 2. By the end of the year, Space Marine 2 was also named as one of the best-selling titles on Steam.

Since its release, the game has gotten continued support in the form of updates that brought balance changes, bug fixes and more quality-of-life features. They also added new content in the form of fresh PvP maps and missions for the co-op Operations mode. More recently, the game received support PS5 Pro enhancements, as well as support for new technologies like DLSS 3 and FSR 3.

For more details about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, check out our review.

The Warhammer 40,000 collaboration DLC throws PowerWash Simulator players into the shoes of a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, tasked with performing the ultimate purification protocol and cleaning several pieces of Imperium gear.

Along with cleaning several Imperial vehicles and machines, the player will also quench their thirst for knowledge by finding field reports from the frontlines. To help them with this task, the player is equipped with a custom MKII Aqua-Santica Arquebus power washer.

As part of the new DLC, players will be able to clean a host of Imperial machines and vehicles, including an Ultramarines Land Raider, a Dark Angels Redemptor Dreadnought, an Astra Militarum Rogal Dorn Tank, a House Hawkshroud Imperial Knight, and a Blood Angels Thunderhawk.

For more details about PowerWash Simulator: Warhammer 40,000 Special Pack, check out the trailer released earlier this month.

Rather than throwing in some Warhammer 40,000-inspired levels into PowerWash Simulator and calling it a day, the DLC instead goes quite in-depth. Players are put into the shoes of a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus and equipped with a custom MKII Aqua-Santica Arquebus power washer.

The DLC will feature a host of different objects and vehicles from Warhammer 40,000 that players will be tasked with cleaning up, including an Ultramarines Land Raider, a Dark Angels Deathwing Redemptor Dreadnought, the Astra Militarum Rogal Dorn Tank, a House Hawkshroud Imperial Knight, and a Blood Angels Thunderhawk.

While all of the new cleaning targets revolve around the Imperium and its various sub-factions, the variety available, ranging from a Land Raider to an Imperial Knight, is quite impressive.

Considering the breadth of the Warhammer 40,000 setting, the possibilities are almost endless for the types of scenarios PowerWash Simulator players can find themselves in. We’ll likely see some of the most iconic Warhammer 40,000 things in the game, such as a Space Marine’s armour, or larger vehicles like a Leman Russ tank.

At this point, PowerWash Simulator is no stranger to having strange crossover DLC related to other properties. Earlier this month, FuturLab announced that a series of levels based on SpongeBob SquarePants would be making their way to the game in a DLC slated for summer.

Previously, the game has also seen DLC based on other games, including Final Fantasy 7 and the classic Tomb Raider games. April also saw the release of the Muckingham Files update for PowerWash Simulator which revolved around improvements to the core game and its story.

Alongside featuring discounted pricing on games based on various Warhammer IPs, Warhammer Skulls will also feature new details on games like Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. We can also undoubtedly expect details on new content coming to games already out, like Total War: Warhammer 3 and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.

Games across multiple platforms will be getting discounts of up to 80%, and we’ll also be seeing new content coming to games across all platforms. Kicking things of for Warhammer Skulls is the Warhammer 40,000 in-game event currently taking place in World of Tanks: Modern Armor right now.

The next game based on Warhammer slated to come out is old-school self-proclaimed boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, set for release on May 23. There is also an RPG in the works—Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader—which doesn’t yet have a release date.