Space Marines in the Warhammer 40,000 universe are awesome. They’re stronger than normal humans, better armed and more armored than regular soldiers. They also border on immortal since they age far slower than normal humans and are far harder to kill. Yet, when you get down to the characters in the stories, they still feel very human even though they most assuredly aren’t completely human.

There’s a whole wealth of usually ultraviolent directions with actual stories that a game based solely on this general faction of the universe can be. That’s why I was really excited when I first heard that there was a shooter that would be allowing you to play as a Space Marine.

Last November, Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie was released. Save for the limited release, erratic pacing, being too short and lacking character development, the movie was actually pretty solid. It also worked as a good way bridge the gap between people who are avid players within this niche franchise and people (gamers and non-gamers alike) more »

Anyone out there with a hankering to do some downloading should head over to the THQ Store. There is now a 75% off sales event going on and 35 Windows PC games and expansion packs are on sale. The thing is, THQ hasn’t announced any end date for the promotion. So your best bet is to stop by the site now, browse the available games to see if there’s anything you’d like and order…

Is winter weather getting you down? Being cooped up due to the weather, especially if you live in a usually lively city, is probably getting rather boring. Trust me. Being a Chicago native, I know due to the recent “blizzard”. You’ve got quite a few options to occupy your time, though. This is going to be a list of some of the best horror games to distract yourself with while you’re trapped within your house.

Some of these do require power but a few games in the list only require a light source (preferably a little spooky), pencils, paper and dice.

Ultramarines follows a 12-man squad of Ultramarines as they are sent to respond to a distress call from an Imperial shrine that’s guarded by a different legion of space marine, the Imperial Fists. The squad is predominantly rookie-based and are looking for combat so that they can join the list of veterans in the Ultramarines. Soon some realize there is something wrong about this mission as they start running into the forces of Chaos that surround and, in some cases, infest the Imperial holy ground…

A Thousand Sons brought one of the more interesting legions of the Adeptus Astartes into the light. It also detailed their fall from grace, simply because they wanted to do right by the Emperor by sending a warning regarding Horus’s treasonous plan. It also showed the start of the Space Wolves sacking Prospero, the home planet of the sorcerer-soldier legion.

The book Prospero Burns has a lot to do with the fall of Prospero, as you might gather from the title. This time, though, while developing the Space Wolves legion, there’s a new perspective on the events of revolving around the rivalry between the Space Wolves and Thousand Sons legions.

The release of the first Warhammer 40,000 feature-length straight-to-DVD movie, simply titled Ultramarines, is coming up. To be more precise, the movie’s worldwide release, according to the film’s website, will be November 29, 2010.

It was bound to happen that the Horus Heresy series would have a book that almost exclusively focused on the behind-the-scenes aspect of war. Nemesis is that book.

The question is whether or not it actually lives up to the work that the majority of the series had laid out. To put it simply, it does but it could be so much better.

After the release of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, some people were wondering when an MMO based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. A Warhammer 40k had also been rumored and wished for quite a while though nothing ever came of the rumors and the wishes lead to nothing themselves. That was true, at least until now.

Sure it was confirmed. Nothing at all, even in terms of basic concept art specifically for the game, had been released when it was confirmed. So even a group saying they’re working on something, especially if a tight enough lid kept on it, it still seems like a rumor. It even still felt like a rumor when they announced that the game would pay for itself if they reached only (only being used in comparison to more established MMOs) one million subscribers. Again, due to the lack of even concept art specifically for the game outside of codex art that could be screwed up in translation from rulebook to computer game, that was true until now.

In the Warhammer 40,000 franchise, there is at least one pet group in the Imperial Guard, Chaos Marines and the Space Marines factions. While you look at the novels set in the franchise, there really isn’t much of a focus on any one group. However, once you get beyond the fiction and into the tabletop, console, handheld and computer games, the pet groups start getting attention.

At the moment, there are only a handful of Warhammer 40,000 games that feature Space Marines that don’t have the Ultramarines in there somewhere…