Warhammer 40K’s first VR game puts you into The Horus Heresy

The Warhammer 40K universe is expanding into virtual reality with the turn-based tactical adventure The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth, which is entering the Early Access portal for unfinished games on the Steam distribution service soon. Developer Steel Wool Studios announced the game today, and it is promising to deliver a larger more dynamic version of […]

Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire: A 30-minute war in the grimdark future

Enlarge (credit: Charles Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Games Workshop is making a play. While the large UK publisher has dominated the miniatures world for decades, it has only recently returned to the cardboard jungle. New game Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire […]

Total War: Warhammer 2 Review: The weight of the New World

Enlarge / The Lizardmen’s “Geomantic Web” bonuses make them into fantasy landlords. (credit: Creative Assembly) At release, Total War: Warhammer seriously benefitted from untying the strategy series from its historical roots. The wildly varied Warhammer fantasy universe allowed each of the game’s factions to be unique—not just in terms of starting map location and slight […]

Sega’s Creative Asssembly unveils a massive new world for Total War: Warhammer II

PREVIEW: Sega’s The Creative Assembly plans three massive real-time strategy games set in the Warhammer universe. And today, it is taking the wraps off of Total War: Warhammer II. The game is a sequel to last year’s Total War: Warhammer, which debuted in May 2016 and it became the most popular game ever in the 17-year-old Total War […]

Friends And Foes Unite In Upcoming Strategy Game Warhammer Quest 2

Three years ago, developer Rodeo Games translated classic board game Warhammer Quest to a challenging turn-based RPG, a party-based adventure through dungeons and ruins with a varied collection of heroes. Since then, founding members of Rodeo formed a new team, Perchang, making one wonder if that was the last we’d see of digital Quest. But […]