With the holiday season drawing near, you’re probably wondering what to get for your gamer friend, sibling, loved one or self. This time around, Black Library, the fiction publishing department of Games Workshop, is giving you a lot of options for the tech-inclined science fiction fan and gamer in your life.

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…

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.

THQ was big on the mascots at E3 2010. When I say big, I mean that in the most literal sense possible. We captured around a minute of footage of a walking Ork and a semi-operational mech from Red Faction Armageddon.

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…

This book not only holds the line holds the line set by the rest of Warhammer 40,000 fiction but actually advances it, as the Ghosts are so prone to do on a mission. Read on to find out how and why…

Fans of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universes have heard about rumors of a Warhammer 40,000 movie for years. Soon, we may have something to look at if plans come to pass.

Now it seems there might be a straight-to-DVD motion-capture film titled Ultramarines.

The first sign of hope was when London-based production company Codex Pictures got the rights to the movie a few years ago. It was further solidified into an eventuality as it acquired Dan Abnett, veteran writer to the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 battlefields, as the screenwriter. The company also reported on the movie’s site that Martyn Pick would be the might-be movie’s director.