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Gizmodo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine' is Finally Getting a Remaster
A year after its sequel arrived, the original Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is coming to modern gaming. The definitive, 'Master Crafted Edition' of the third-person shooter comes of port developer SneakyBox. Producer Vaidas Mikelskas described the update as a 'thoughtful restoration […] a respectful dialogue between past and present, preserving what made the original special while making it shine for a new generation of players.' Along with graphical updates and a modern UI and control scheme, this new Space Marine provides a visual update to the Orks to make them more in line with their current visual identity in the franchise canon, and 'over 100' new voice lines. Originally developed by Relic Entertainment, the first Space Marine released in 2011 to generally positive reviews. It had two planned sequels, but those fell apart when the game's publisher THQ closed down. Sega subsequently gained its publishing rights upon acquiring Relic two years later, and re-released the game on PC back in 2021. Later that year, Saber Interactive revealed it would develop the sequel for publisher Focus Entertainment, which released to pretty strong reviews in 2024 and has its own followup in the works. Rights for the first Warhammer 40K: Space Marine remain with Sega, which currently hasn't announced a PlayStation 5 version of the Master Crafted Edition. So if you're interested, you'll have to buy it on PC or Xbox Series X|S, or play via Xbox Game Pass, on June 10.
The Verge
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Warhammer's free new game makes typing grimdark
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance is a new typing game based on Warhammer 40,000 and it's available now for free on PC via Steam. The dark sci-fi spin on a typing teacher was shadow-dropped during a series of announcements made during the latest Warhammer Skulls Showcase. Also shown was a trailer for Boltgun 2, a sequel to Auroch Digital's first-person shooter the new typing game is based on. Words of Vengeance follows in the footsteps of games like Typing of the Dead where you type on-screen prompts as quickly and as accurately as you can to defeat enemies and progress in on-rails levels. It's set in the world of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and uses the same pixelated 3D aesthetic with plenty of blood and violence, except the blood is spilled by typing. As a fan of mechanical keyboards, I personally love occasionally firing up typing tests to hear what the latest keyboard I'm obsessing over sounds and feels like. But as much as I love Monkeytype or Keybr, an actual typing game offers a different kind of fun. The thought of going full boomer-shooter with my proper grammar and punctuation exercises just has me more stoked than ever. Plus, it's free.
