And the Warhammer 40k Video Game Licence Goes To…
March 15, 2013 by dracs
Since THQ went bankrupt the Warhammer 40k video game licence has been bouncing around, with many thinking Sega had picked it up. Well now video game company Slitherine have announced that they have signed a deal to make a strategy game in the 40k universe.
"The Warhammer 40,000 setting is a perfect fit for the style of strategy games that we make and will be very popular with fantasy and science fiction fans alike. Joining forces with Games Workshop will allow us to bring an wonderfully deep and appropriate IP to the Turn Based Strategy genre.” - JD McNeil, Chairman of the Slitherine Group
This is a very exciting announcement. I love the various 40k strategy video games that are out there and I will be really interested to see if Slitherine do the universe justice.
Who else is excited about this announcement? Do you like any of Slitherine's existing games?
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Looking forward to it:)
Final Liberation redux!
Final liberation and chaos gate 🙂 gotta love em … I like these news because it allows people to experience the cool universe without having to get into the stupid tabletop system.
Seems you guys love it but one thing i really wanted to see rather than more strategy games will be something more RPG like, centered in exploring the universe of 40k from a more direct perspective. I would have love to see Bioware taking this one, i know many might disagree and also there would be a big ? on what will happen with the GrimDark feel… Anyway… waiting for the continuation of Spacemarines… something with more story!
“appropriate IP to the Turn Based Strategy genre.”
hmm. personally i’m not a huge turn based fan (in video games at least). spending ages just doing nothing while my opponent moves isn’t so fun for me. strategy games i don’t mind, just the turn based ones.
And I’m the opposite. Real Time Strategy is uselessly frantic and turn into nothing more than massing a single horde and zerging.
Being turn based is the *only* reason I’d even give this a look, even assuming there is multiplayer, at all (not mentioned in the blurb).
Slitherine?
Love the irony of GW doing business with a company named after a house in Harry Potter books. 😛
JK Rowling will be expecting a cease and desist letter from GW lawyers any time soon lol
The license for this game goes to Slitherine.
20 points awarded to Gryffindor.
Turn based could be cool, I was a huge final liberation fan, but what i would love to see is a game based around death watch that plays like the latest X-Com
Slitherine is, of course, the publisher of the historic tabletop wargame series Field of Glory (which they’ve made digital versions of as well). This is probably where wargamers should recognize them most from since Osprey Publishing has a pretty close relationship with them and serves as one of their primary distributors (for the tabletop stuff, not the digital so much). Most of Slitherine’s digital titles are very much tabletop games on virtual tables, hence the tendency toward turn-based. Personally, I think the virtual tables are great for historic gamers because historic gaming gets expensive fast and it’s often harder to… Read more »
Now it sounds very exciting!
Turn based strategy games based on 40k have always been great and prospect of getting more of them in near future is something that makes my happy.
Sorry “makes me happy”.
Slitherine’s redux of Panzer General is very good. They gave it a new life. Whatever they will do here will sure be great. Looking forward to it.
Final liberation and chaos gate 🙂 gotta love em …………..good post.
Play online strategy game: http://www.darkagewars.com
Turn base 40k ftw!
Now if they would only announce that Dark Millennium is back on the tracks!
1 more vote for a turn based!