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Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Clearly not too busy with the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, Avatar game, and more, Space Marine 2 devs are teasing something new, and fans think it's a Hellraiser title
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The developer of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is teasing an announcement for next week, and fans are convinced it has something to do with 80s film franchise Hellraiser. Saber Interactive is quite busy at the moment, with the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, Jurassic Park Survival and Space Marine 3 all in development at the studio right now. Now, it's released a teaser that some are taking as a hint at a game based on the Hellraiser franchise. Saber posts a tweet featuring a teaser video, which shows a CRT TV flashing images at a wall with a circle of candles around it while a mysterious voice speaks, all under a VHS filter. Alongside this is the teaser website / which features a similar filter over the game's reveal time of 1pm UTC (that's 2pm BST / 9am ET / 6am PT) on July 22, 2025. It's not taken fans long to speculate on what it's teasing. One user responds saying "it's Hellraiser!! You can hear Doug Bradley Pinhead speaking," while another responds to Saber CCO Tim Willits saying: "I heard chains, definitely Pinhead." When you look at that teaser website you do get a flash of an image, which features a sign that says 55. And when I – who admittedly knows nothing about Hellraiser – searched for a link between the films and the number 55, it turns out that 55 Hillcrest is the address of the Cotton family from the film, so that's definitely some compelling evidence that it could be Hellraiser. It's worth noting that Pinhead was featured in Dead By Daylight in 2021, but back in April of this year, he was removed from the in-game store. I don't know if I'm thinking too much into this but perhaps Saber's new game is its own asymmetric multiplayer game based on Hellraiser, just like the games based on Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th. Of course, there's a chance that all of this is coincidental and Saber's upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender game is going to some real weird places. Silent Hill creator is conscious of his age and wants to "pass the baton on to the next generation," but the horror icon's got at least one more game up his sleeve. Solve the daily Crossword
Gizmodo
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Warhammer 40K' Fans Are Screaming About an Iconic Scream
In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, there is only war—and that kind of attitude invites a lot of yelling. Angry human yells, angry alien yells, angry daemonic yells, someone, somewhere is always yelling in the world of Warhammer 40,000. But in our own universe, there's also been a lot of yelling about yelling as of late. Recently, Relic Entertainment announced that it would be reviving the classic original entry in the Warhammer 40K game series Dawn of War with a new remaster, cleaning up and updating the beloved 2004 RTS for modern computers. To celebrate the announcement of its release date, late last week the developers behind Dawn of War Definitive Edition released a similarly remastered trailer cleaning up Dawn of War's legendary opening cinematic. It remains, for the most part, a banger bit of 40K goodness. It's got Space Marines, it's got Orks, it's got lots of violence and heroic last stands—and, spoilers for an intro cinematic to a video game released 21 years ago—a suitably Warhammer-esque Pyrrhic victory, because everything does need to be at least a little bit bleak, even the hopeful stuff. But it's not exactly the same as the original cinematic, and that has, of course, riled up Dawn of War fans who, despite having to deal with new rules and codexes every edition of Warhammer, are not fond of change (unless they play Thousand Sons, I guess). Whatever is the matter? A scream. Specifically, the scream of the Blood Ravens sergeant cried around 42 seconds into the above trailer. You might notice that it's not really a scream; in fact, it's not even that sergeant actually speaking. The 'Space Marines, attack!' dialogue actually comes from the game itself, one of the lines spoken by campaign protagonist Gabriel Angelos. That's not Angelos in the trailer, because, as you can see above—and, again, spoilers for an intro cinematic to a video game released 21 years ago—the trailer ends with the sergeant perishing, sacrificing himself to call in reinforcements. Reinforcements led by Angelos, because that's what the actual events of Dawn of War are about. But it's more than just the character switcheroo 40K fans are miffed about. They miss the oddly lo-fi, yet charmingly guttural primal shriek the sergeant screams in the original cutscene. You can hear it for yourself below, at a similar mark in the trailer (you'd hope so, considering it's basically the same thing but in 720p): 'you put back his battlecry RIGHT FREAKING NOW OR ILL GET ANGRY,' one top comment reads. 'Leaving the sergeant's scream out is a crime against humanity, and therefore heresy,' adds another. One helpfully links to a shitpost version of the trailer where the sergeant is just endlessly screaming throughout. Suffice to say, what should've been an easy nostalgic play to Warhammer fans did not exactly go as planned for Relic. So, in a bid to stop all the screaming about a scream, the developer is promising to fix the intro cinematic in time for Dawn of War Definitive Edition's launch next month. 'We decided to change the scream as the original audio was quite distorted which was notable when compared to some of the audio touch-ups in the enhanced trailer,' a statement provided by Relic to IGN about the situation reads in part. 'That said, we've heard the feedback from fans—the roar was even more beloved than we realized! Who knows, we may have something for OG roar enjoyers before long.' Distorted as it may be, that's part of the charm of the original trailer. At the time, it was perhaps one of the few highest-fidelity imaginings of the 40K universe we'd gotten to see in this manner. But it's still crunchy and guttural and weird-sounding, which might sound jarringly distorted in a modern sense, but it kind of feels perfect for Warhammer's vision of the miserable future. Everyone's screaming, and the screaming sounds kinda bad to boot! Thankfully, Dawn of War's iconic scream will return in time for Definitive Edition's release on PC next month on August 14. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Geek Tyrant
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Henry Cavill Says His WARHAMMER Series Is a 'Dream Come True' and a Challenge He's "Enjoying Enormously' — GeekTyrant
It's been three years since Amazon first announced that it had teamed up with Henry Cavill to bring Warhammer 40,000 to life in live action. Since then, the updates have been slow, but Cavill hasn't let go of his dream. In fact, he's doubling down. In a recent interview with Esquire, the actor-turned-executive-producer opened up about what it's like to be steering the ship for one of the most expansive and intimidating sci-fi IPs out there, saying: 'It's different from what I've done before, in the sense I haven't had my hand on the tiller of things before. It's wonderful doing that. It is a tricky IP, and a very complex IP, and that's what I love about it. 'The challenges that come with putting this on the page in a way that is doing justice to that complexity, that trickiness, and that nuance, is a challenge I'm enjoying enormously.' For longtime fans of the Warhammer universe, and of Cavill, this is exactly the kind of commitment you want to hear. Cavill previously said: 'For 30 years I have dreamt of seeing a Warhammer universe in live action. Now, after 22 years of experience in this industry, I finally feel that I have the skill set and experience to guide a Warhammer Cinematic Universe into life.' But beyond that initial burst of excitement, details have been kept under wraps. At the tail end of 2024, Cavill offered a brief update, hinting that he and the creative team had zeroed in on their launch point for the franchise: 'Together, we've been sifting through the plethora of incredible characters and poring over old tomes and texts. Our combined efforts have led us to a fantastic place to start our Universe.' What that starting point is remains a mystery, but if Cavill's obsessive enthusiasm and long-running love for the source material are any indication, fans are in good hands. This isn't someone casually stepping into a producer role. This is someone who paints miniatures, builds custom gaming PCs, and actually knows what the Adeptus Mechanicus is. In a world where big franchises often fall into the hands of people who barely understand what makes them special, Warhammer 40K might have found its champion. Cavill wants to do it right.
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.
