When George R.R. Martin crafted the world of Westeros back in the 90s, he probably didn’t think his words would go on to spawn graphic novels, TV shows, action figures, video games, and more. Moreover, I doubt the author expected his works to be adapted into a mobile-friendly action-RPG built to prioritize predatory microtransactions over the rich lore he’d spent decades perfecting. Yet in 2025, we have Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a visually striking open-world exploration game that looks compelling in motion, but hones in more on menus and currency than fantasy adventure. And, as you push deeper into its sizable campaign to uncover a plethora of in-game currencies and progress-halting hurdles, the neo-medieval jaunt starts to feel more like a lesson in asset management than a thoughtful RPG. Kingsroad takes place during season four of the HBO TV series, putting you in the fur-lined boots of a northern-born bastard of House Tyre. With your father sickly and your inheritance caught up in the strict succession rules of the realm, the only hope for the safety of your people is to borrow, beg, and steal your way into the hearts of the lords and ladies of Westeros. Naturally, things aren’t as simple as just asking, and you’ll have to go round the houses (literally) to solve land disputes, find missing soldiers, and knock together the heads of vassal-house warriors on your way to earning your flowers. Alongside a cavalcade of curious NPCs, there are also White Walkers, mythical beasts, and traitorous Boltons to butt heads with. Thankfully, Westeros’ misfortune makes for an enticing landing pad for you to start from. PlayBefore you dive into the cobbled streets and open roads of Westeros, though, you’ll first need to pick a combat archetype to play as: a brutish Sellsword, a skilful Knight, or a nimble Assassin. Fuelled by my love of Brienne of Tarth and Dungeons & Dragons’ Barbarian class, I opted for the axe-wielding Sellsword, whose heavy strikes can easily wind gaggles of enemy forces. Indecisive? Good news: Kingsroad does allow you to switch between archetypes at any time, and your inventory is shared across your three possible characters, so you can boost your alts with your main’s hard-earned loot. That said, I was disappointed to find that once you finalise a character, you can’t delete them and start that class over, or change their name, a feature that bit me in the butt when testing how unsightly I could make my Knight. With your combat destiny chosen, Kingsroad’s decently impressive character creator lets you use a mixture of face-contorting sliders and colour-pickers to specialise your plucky hero. It doesn’t have the depth of something like Dragon’s Dogma 2 (although that’s an admittedly high bar), but I am glad I was able to bestow my characters with an identity that felt personal to me – which is to say moody, and tastefully adorned with smudgy eyeliner and edgy facial scars. You'll explore an impressively recreated map of Westeros.“Kingsroad wastes no time teaching you the basics of its combat and platforming with a tight but comprehensive tutorial, which takes you beyond the wall and back again. That’s where you’ll meet the first of many familiar faces for any fans of the show, as Jon Snow and Samwell Tarley do a decent job of filling in the narrative gaps for those in need of a season four recap. While the digital renditions of these well-known characters aren’t the most flattering, their conversations felt thoughtfully written and helped to establish my lowborn place within the setting. Soon enough, though, Kingsroad lets go of your hand and allows you to roam free across the countryside, providing a choice of campaign quests and side missions to follow, as well as plenty of points of interest to chase on your map. The open world of Kingsroad gave me the freedom to explore this (mostly) faithfully reimagined Westeros, and I enjoyed riding across snowy plateaus and uncovering the secrets of curious stone architecture nestled on the horizon. But the initial exhilaration of high fantasy galavanting wore off quickly as the edges of developer Netmarble’s fantasy panopticon started to show. For every delicate snowflake at Castle Black or butterfly dancing in Winterfell, there were plenty more low-poly fruit trees, bouncy grass patches, and possessed weapons to pick at the sheen. I admire the sheer scale of the open world Kingsroad is offering, but it’s lacking the visual consistency to make it realistic and immersive. As I soon noticed those cracks in the facade, Kingsroad started to feel like a game full of pulled punches, despite how promising it seemed at a distance.This lack of polish extends to your movement on both foot and horseback – ice skating would be the most fitting comparison. When exploring the frosty reaches of the North, this sensation is strangely fitting. However, it became wholly frustrating when it persisted while charting the sunny coastal areas near Highgarden, especially when attempting to complete the occasional platforming puzzles dotted around the icon-covered map. Typically, I was only one slip away from falling down an unscalable hillside, or worse, into a camp of fierce opponents with no way out. Up close, the animations also err on the eerie side in cutscenes. My character would often deliver a wide-eyed death stare, and I couldn't take them seriously as they’d burn holes in the townsfolk’s skulls as they explained their heart wrenching tragedies.Memorable characters surface as uncanny valley clones of themselves.“Speaking of the citizens of Westeros, their heads and eyes wobble around like strange marionettes during conversations, which dampens the atmosphere considerably. It’s a shame, because their dialogue does a great job of affirming the grim, corrupt cloud that hangs over the continent as winter approaches. I felt particularly bad laughing when an old lady thanked me for saving her daughter from being eaten by Ramsay Bolton’s dogs. Unfortunately, the most egregious offenders are often Kingsroad’s recreations of characters from the show. Memorable players, like Nymeria Sand and Varys, surface as uncanny valley clones of their likenesses. I’ll be seeing yassifed Cersei in my nightmares for many moons to come…Beyond exploration, the bulk of your time in Kingsroad is split between investing in complex resource management systems at your homestead and completing multi-stage quests and battles out in the world. As such, you can find a plethora of challenges that boost both of these areas, like dungeon crawls, bandit camps, occupied villages, and giant mythical beasts, all of which reward you handsomely for spilling blood by the gallon. How efficiently you blend your time between these two aspects is integral to maintaining a solid pace within the grind-heavy progression system – alas, a lack of technical balance makes succeeding in this endeavour profoundly painful.Game of Thrones: Kingsroad Gameplay ScreenshotsThe trouble begins with the combat, which is a total mixed bag. While your actions feel pleasantly grounded, and rugged blows always arrive with flashy particle-heavy animations, the process begins to feel overfamiliar fast. Despite the solid variety of moves available – light, heavy, and special attacks, as well as decent dodge and parry options – inaccurate hit boxes consistently hampered my attempts at strategy. Occasionally, I would need to use my head a little and skulk around an area to remove edge threats, though those tactical moments arrived few and far between. It says something unflattering that Kingsroad feels almost identical at 60 hours as it did at 20. You can specialise and upgrade your moveset in combat with traits and skill trees, too, but they do little to impact how the combat feels in motion. Kingsroad gives the impression of having useful Traits by putting options like learning to parry and crafting arrows up at the top of the trees, but as you work your way down, many of the lower options offer small percentage-based improvements to defense and attack that barely make a dent. So as your sparkly slashes lose their lustre, you’re often left cycling through the same few enemies and combos until the battle is won. It seems as though the architecture of a solid combat system is there, but much like the rest of Kingsroad, it’s all facade with no foundation. What hampers the fun most are the frequent and appropriately-named Momentum roadblocks.“Still, what hampers the fun of Kingsroad most of all are the frequently appearing and appropriately-named Momentum roadblocks. Similar to Destiny’s Gear Score, Kingsroad tallies up the quality of all your equipment, accessories, and skills into one neat number called your Momentum Score. These pesky little digits are the cruel gatekeepers of story content, forcing you to scour the map for dull side objectives that can juice the numbers and shuffle you towards the next episode. While I’m more than happy to invest in grind-heavy games like World of Warcraft Classic and no stranger to mobile-minded progress gating, the Momentum system in Kingsroad is a particularly brutish arbiter that doesn’t allow you to get crafty or punch above your weight by taking on more challenging enemies. Instead, imposing forces appear with a skull icon over their head, their damage and health ratings untouchably high. But as soon as you inch over the Momentum line, the fight shifts dramatically in your favour. This black and white process neutralises any sense of gamesmanship, and frequently forced me into hours of toil to get back to the story I was, for the most part, enjoying. Sarah's favourite fantasy jauntsSee AllWhen you’re ready to take some time out from the combat, you can invest more in the slower-paced aspects of Kingsroad, namely the tedious Estate Management side game. As the last remaining heir to Lord Tyre, his homestead, Renan’s Rest, becomes your project. As is to be expected, helping this dilapidated village flourish rewards you with the tools necessary to beef up your arsenal, and gives you a place to spend all those resources you’ve been hoarding by completing missions – though the process of cleaning up this town is about as much fun as cleaning your actual room.While the jeweller and the forge are convenient additions that allow you to craft wearable items, the most valuable activity is embarking on gacha-based Artefact Expeditions. You’ll spend resources to hire workers and send them into the wild to find more resources, as well as historical items called Relics you can then leverage to further bolster your Momentum. Similar to other gacha game systems, you’re guaranteed a high-quality item after a set amount of runs, but a standard expedition takes eight actual hours to complete, which is a frustrating turnaround when not every run guarantees a good haul. That is, unless you’re willing to pay real money to speed things up. The Story Continues - Live Service UpdatesPlayWhile it took me roughly 60 hours to complete the story missions that were available at Game of Thrones: Kingsroad’s 1.0 launch (in part thanks to the benefit of the Ultimate Founder’s Pack code we were provided for this review), once you finish up, it doesn’t really “end” and you can seek out the plethora of side quests and repeatable combat challenges across the map. While there isn’t an official roadmap for what’s on the horizon, Netmarble announced during its 1.0 release Dev Note that the team will continue to add content and make technical improvements as time goes on. Alongside the Battle Pass, there are also timed Events that offer additional goalposts and ask you to complete a series of challenges to earn further rewards. Continued support is always good, and here’s hoping things like the floaty movement and inconsistent animations might eventually get the polish they need, but I’m skeptical that much can be done to fix Kingsroad’s biggest issues without a complete rework of its economy and progression. For example, the new quests that were already added post-launch should’ve been enticing, but instead they pushed the finish line absurdly far out of sight – by my rough estimate, I would need to play more than twice what I already have just to reach the Momentum Score required to take them on (without spending any money), and that’s despite the fact that this new content seems to follow the exact same loop of mission types already used across the rest of the campaign. Thanks, but I’m good.That brings us to the elephant in the room. Almost every activity in Kingsroad can be expedited with the use of cold hard cash, which translates to Iron Bank Marks in-game. Of course, you can pay to complete an aforementioned expedition early, or buy higher-rarity expedition wagons by the dozen that don’t take time to complete. Stuck behind a Momentum block? Just purchase Gold to speedrun your jewellery maker’s upgrades and smelt higher-rated necklaces and rings to jolt your score. Typically, you can only fast travel by making your way to a special signpost first, and there’s a copper fee for each warp – but you can fast travel from anywhere for free if you pay for the premium option. Behind nearly every aggravating system in Kingsroad is a far more user-friendly one, but only if you’re willing to cough up the dough. It seems intent to toe the line between being intentionally frustrating and passably functional, subtly egging you on to pay up rather than sit through the repetitive, time-consuming activities necessary to proceed. While it’s to be expected that there will be premium aspects in a free-to-play game available on mobile devices (in addition to Steam), the overwhelming flood of paid subscriptions, resource packs, and confounding currencies feels like a heartbreaking affront to Game of Thrones fans, like myself, who have been begging for a fully-fledged Westeros RPG similar to this. Across the 60 hours I’ve played so far, I’ve felt guilty for slashing down innocent defectors and filled with joy for feeding the starving smallfolk. It's clear Netmarble wants you to feel like you’re making a difference in this world, but it’s also just as keen to remind you that you can make a difference quicker if you’re willing to enter your credit card details first. It’s sad to see so much effort put into the underlying concept of a Game of Thrones adventure like this only for it to be tarnished by microtransactions and the repetitive gameplay loops that enable them.

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Doom: The Dark Ages just launched on May 15. But it's already received "difficulty" balance changes "that have made the demons of Hell even more dangerous than ever," writes Windows Central: According to DOOM's official website Slayer's Club, these balance adjustments are focused on making the game harder, as players have been leaving feedback saying it felt too easy even on Nightmare Mode. As a result, enemies now hit harder, health and armor item pick-ups drop less often, and certain enemies punish you more severely for mistiming the parry mechanic. It reached three million players in just five days, which was seven times faster than 2020's Doom: Eternal," reports Wccftech (though according to analytics firm Ampere Analysis (via The Game Business), more than two million of those three million launch players were playing on Xbox, while only 500K were playing on PS5.") "id Software proves it can still reinvent the wheel," according to one reviewer, "shaking up numerous aspects of gameplay, exchanging elaborate platforming for brutal on-the-ground action, as well as the ability to soar on a dragon's back or stomp around in a giant mech." And the New York Times says the game "effectively reinvents the hellish shooter with a revamped movement system and deepened lore" in the medieval goth-themed game... Double jumping and dashing are ditched and replaced with an emphasis on raw power and slow, strategic melee combat. Doom Slayer's arsenal features a brand-new tool, the powerful Shield Saw, which Id Software made a point to showcase across its "Stand and Fight" trailers and advertisements. Used for absorbing damage at the expense of speed, the saw also allows players to bash enemies from afar and close the gap on chasms too wide to jump across. While previous titles allowed players to quickly worm their way through bullet hell, The Dark Ages expects you to meet foes head on. "If you were an F-22 fighter jet in Doom Eternal, this time around we wanted you to feel like an Abrams tank," Hugo Martin, the game's creative director, has told journalists. And Doom Slayer's beefy durability and unstoppable nature does make the gameplay a refreshing experience. The badassery is somehow ratcheted to new heights with the inclusion of a fully controllable mech, which has only a handful of attacks at its disposal, and actual dragons. Flight in a Doom game is entirely surprising and fluid, and the dragons feel relatively easy to maneuver through tight spots. They can also engage in combat more deliberately with the use of dodges and mounted cannons... One of my favorite additions is the skullcrusher pulverizer. Equal parts heinous nutcracker and demonic woodchipper, the gun lodges skulls into a grinder and sends shards of bones flying at enemies. The animation is both goofy and satisfying. Another special Times article notes that Doom's fans "resurrect the original game over and over again on progressively stranger pieces of hardware: a Mazda Miata, a NordicTrack treadmill, a French pharmacy sign." But what many hard-core tech hobbyists want to know is whether you can play it on a pregnancy test. The answer: positively yes. And for the first time, even New York Times readers can play Doom within The Times's site [after creating a free account]... None of this happened by accident, of course. Ports were not incidental to Doom's development. They were a core consideration. "Doom was developed in a really unique way that lent a high degree of portability to its code base," said John Romero, who programmed the game with John Carmack. (In our interview, he then reminisced about operating systems for the next 14 minutes.) Id had developed Wolfenstein 3D, the Nazi-killing predecessor to Doom, on PCs. To build Doom, Carmack and Romero used NeXT, the hardware and software company founded by Steve Jobs after his ouster from Apple in 1985. NeXT computers were powerful, selling for about $25,000 apiece in today's dollars. And any game designed on that system would require porting to the more humdrum PCs encountered by consumers at computer labs or office jobs. This turned out to be advantageous because Carmack had a special aptitude for ports. All of Id's founders met as colleagues at Softdisk, which had hired Carmack because of his ability to spin off multiple versions of a single game. The group decided to strike out on its own after Carmack created a near-perfect replica of the first level of Super Mario Bros. 3 — Nintendo's best-selling platformer — on a PC. It was a wonder of software engineering that compensated for limited processing power with clever workarounds. "This is the thing that everyone has," Romero said of PCs. "The fact that we could figure out how to make it become a game console was world changing...." Romero founded a series of game studios after leaving Id in 1996 and is working on a new first-person shooter, the genre he and Carmack practically invented. He has no illusions about how it may stack up. "I absolutely accept that Doom is the best game I'll ever make that has that kind of a reach," he said. "At some point you make the best thing." Thirty years on, people are still making it. And in related news, PC Gamer reports... As part of a new "FPS Fridays" series on Twitch, legendary shooter designer John Romero streamed New Blood's 2018 hit, Dusk, one of the first and most influential indie "boomer shooters" in the genre's recent revitalization. The short of it? Romero seems to have had a blast. 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You can get three Warhammer games for free right now Adam Starkey Published May 23, 2025 2:01pm Updated May 23, 2025 2:01pm He wants a word (Auroch Digital) Several new Warhammer games have been revealed in a showcase, including a throwback shooter which is entirely free. A slew of new games were announced as part of the Warhammer Skulls Showcase this week, but the Warhammer celebrations continue beyond the presentation. In the showcase, Warhammer 40k: Boltgun 2 was revealed, a sequel to developer Auroch Digital’s 2023 retro shooter. It’s set to be released across Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC sometime in 2026. As an extra surprise, Boltgun fans were treated to another announcement in the form of spin-off Warhammer 40k: Boltgun – Words Of Vengeance, a ‘first-person typing’ shooter which is completely free on Steam. The shooter is basically an alternative take on Boltgun where you type out randomised words to kill the enemy hordes. You play as Malum Caedo, who is on a mission to ‘cleanse Forge World Graia of cultists, traitors, and Chaos daemons that threaten to overun it’. This isn’t the only Warhammer game which is currently free. Warhammer 40k: Gladius – Relics Of War is free to keep on Steam if you download it before Monday, May 26 at 6pm BST. This is a turn-based strategy game developed by Proxy Studios which originally came out in 2018. Meanwhile, 1999’s Warhammer 40k: Rites Of War is free on GOG until Thursday, May 29. This is another turn-based strategy title, which was re-released in 2015. While you can download all these games for free and keep them, if you have some spare time over the weekend, you can play 2018’s Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus for the next three days for free on Steam. A sequel is currently in development at Bulwark Studios. If you’re not a PC player, there are heavy discounts on other Warhammer games across Xbox and PlayStation, although none of them are free unfortunately. What games were announced at the Warhammer Skulls Showcase? Along with the aforementioned Warhammer 40k: Boltgun 2 and Words Of Vengeance, there were several other announcements at the showcase. Developer Owlcat revealed Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy, a narrative-driven tactical role-playing game which features ‘intricate investigations’ and player choices that ‘carry grave consequences’. It is set to be released on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC at an unspecified future date. Owlcat also announced its second expansion for Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader, titled Lex Imperialis, will launch on June 24. A second season pass is also in development with two additional 15-hour expansions. More Trending Elsewhere on the DLC front, Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 will soon receive a new PvE Siege mode, where three players must survive and defend a fortress against waves of enemy hordes. It will be playable on Steam via Saber Interactive’s public test server from June 4, and will roll out across all platforms as part of a free update on June 26. For fans of the original Space Marine, a Master Crafted Edition re-release is set to launch on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and Game Pass on June 10, 2025. This edition, described as a ‘thoughtful restoration’ of the 2011 original, includes 4K support, revamped controls, improved visuals, and all previously released DLC. Relic Entertainment’s real-time strategy game, Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War, is also getting a modern revamp via a new Definitive Edition, which includes the base game along with all previous expansions. However, a release date is yet to be announced. A sequel to Boltgun is on the way (Auroch Digital) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. GameCentral Sign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

Something to look forward to: Great news for hardcore Warhammer fans like Henry Cavill, the annual Warhammer Skulls livestream has just taken place, revealing an exciting lineup of new games set in the grim darkness of the far future. It includes a remaster of Space Marine, a definitive edition of Dawn of War with modern upgrades, a new cRPG from Owlcat, more Space Marine 2 content, and confirmation that Space Marine 3 is in the works. There was plenty on offer during the yearly celebration of Warhammer video games. One of the highlights was news that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, still one of the greatest RTS games of all time more than 20 years after its release, is getting a definitive edition. The updated version will comprise all the Dawn of War and standalone expansion content, including 4 classic Dawn of War campaigns, 9 armies, and over 200 maps. There will also be upscaled textures, 4K support, new lighting and reflections, a camera that's been pulled back slightly, bug fixes, and a move to 64-bit to aid modders. The game is due out this year. Another Warhammer property receiving an upgraded special edition is the original Space Marine. Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition also offers upgraded textures, character models, 4K support, updated controls, and all the DLC. It arrives on PC on June 10, priced at $40. If, like me, you spent an obscene amount of time playing the brilliant Rogue Trader following its release, you'll be pleased to know that developer Owlcat is making another cRPG set in the 40K universe. Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy will focus on the Inquisition. What little gameplay is shown in the trailer looks very compelling. In related news, Owlcat revealed the next big expansion to Rogue Trader, Lex Imperialis. Arriving on June 24, the 15-hour DLC features the Adeptus Arbites – the galactic police force – and a new Overseer archetype. We'll also see the first paid DLC for Darktide. Arbites Class will launch on June 23 for $11.99. The excellent Space Marine 2 is getting yet more content. A co-op PvE Siege Mode will be released on June 26, putting players up against endless waves of enemies. Those who enjoyed the turn-based Mechanicus will be pleased to know a sequel is coming later this year. Mechanicus II - Allegiances Unknown will see the Adeptus Mechanicus battling the Necron dynasty. Finally, it's been confirmed that Space Marine 3 is in development. Made by the same Saber Interactive, Focus Entertainment and Games Workshop partnership behind Space Marine 2, it promises an all-new immersive campaign and multiplayer modes. With plenty of life left in Space Marine 2, it will be several years before we play the third installment. // Related Stories

Following this week's Warhammer Skulls event, which saw a bunch of new Warhammer games and media revealed, a bunch of Warhammer PC games are discounted at multiple online retailers. You'll find big discounts on games from Warhammer Fantasy and 40,000 alike, including Vermintide 2 Collector's Edition for $7.19 (was $45), Space Marine 2 for $33.15 (was $60), and many more. There are even a few freebies to pick up as well. The deals are available at Fanatical, GOG, Humble Bundle, and Green Man Gaming, and while you'll find many of the same games on sale at all four retailers, the deal prices and availability differ. In most cases, the difference is only a few dollars at most. Nevertheless, to help you save the most cash, we've combed through them all to find the lowest prices and most noteworthy exclusives and listed them below. Note that most of these deals will be available for several more days, so you've got time to grab them.Browse all Warhammer Skulls dealsFanaticalGOGHumble BundleGreen Man GamingGOG has some of the most unique Warhammer deals to check out. This includes an exclusive Warhammer Goodie Bag that's free to download. It includes 22 wallpapers for desktop or smartphones and discount codes for Warhammer Fantasy Role Play TTRPG rulebooks and expansions through Cubicle 7 and Warhammer art prints at Warhammer Art. GOG is also giving away the classic Warhammer 40,000 strategy game Rites of War for free.Both freebies are worth grabbing even if you don't purchase anything else from GOG. That said, the retailer has a few exclusive bundle deals you won't find anywhere else, including the Warhammer 40K Bundle that gets you Space Marine, Dawn of War Master Edition, and Dawn of War II Grand Master Edition for just $25 (was $100), and the Shooter Dual Pack with Necromunda: Hired Gun and Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition for $10.70 (normally $60). Of course, GOG also has deals on a bunch of classic Warhammer games you won't find anywhere else, like Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 and Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles. And to top it all off, all games purchased at GOG are entirely DRM-free--so even if other storefronts have a few games on sale for slightly cheaper, it's still worth considering GOG for that reason alone.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Sega and Games Workshop announced that the original Space Marine game, first released on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC over a decade ago, is getting a fancy remaster with improved visuals and controls. And you won’t have to wait long as it launches on June 10 on Xbox Series X/S, and PC. You might notice a platform is missing. Suggested ReadingGTA 6 Beers Look Tasty As Hell Share SubtitlesOffEnglishview videoSuggested ReadingGTA 6 Beers Look Tasty As Hell Share SubtitlesOffEnglishThe original Warhammer 40k: Space Marine was released back in 2011. It was very good, and over a decade later in 2024, it finally got a big sequel that was even better. That sequel was such a big success that the people behind it have already announced they are making Space Marine 3. That’s pretty cool. But perhaps you want to return to the OG game or play it for the first time before the third game arrives in the future. Until now, the best way to do that was to play the solid but dated PC port of Space Marine. However, there’s soon to be a (hopefully) better option to replay this cult classic third-person sci-fi shooter. Unless you only own a PS5, that is. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition Official TrailerOn May 22, as part of the Warhammer Skulls event, Sega announced that it was remastering the OG Space Marine. According to the publisher, the new remaster is being handled by SneakyBox and will feature a 4K resolution option, modernized controls, a complete UI overhaul, improved character models, and remastered audio. I can’t wait to hear Orks yell out “Space Marine!” in a cockney accent in the highest fidelity possible. “[This] isn’t just a technical upgrade — it’s a thoughtful restoration,” producer Vaidas Mikelskas from SneakyBox told IGN. “We aimed to preserve the spirit of the original while modernizing the experience for today’s players.”Strangely, this surprise remaster seems to be skipping PlayStation 5 if the game’s first trailer is any indication. Instead, it will arrive on day one on Game Pass. Not sure what’s going on here. I assume eventually the remaster will get a PS5 port, but for now it seems to be an Xbox console exclusive. Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition .

Supremacy: Warhammer 40,000 has just been revealed at the Warhammmer Skulls event. Developed by Stillfront, the game is a Warhammer spin on the Supremacy epic strategy game, in-development for PC, iOS, and Android. Read more

Fatshark has revealed the next class for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, as part of today's Warhammer Skulls event. The Adeptus Arbites - essentially Warhammer 40K's version of space police - is getting some representation, bringing with them a trusty cyber mastiff companion. Read more