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Space Hulk: Deathwing may be a long way from release, but Focus Home Interactive and Games Workshop took some time to release a new trailer showing off new in-game footage, built from Unreal Engine 4.

Focus Home Interactive has released some new gameplay footage of the upcoming Blood Bowl 2, showing off some of the game's new graphics engine in action.

What happens when an MMORPG shuts down? Well, it probably lives on through pirate servers. But what happens officially? It vanishes. With the death of Warhammer Online nigh, former lead client engineer Andrew Meggs has proposed an alternative: turning on a debug feature which lets the game run offline so the world lives on forever, albeit without anyone else in it.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning may be shutting down in December, but developer Mythic plans to go out with a bang. Everyone who's ever had an account for the MMORPG (well, an account in good standing) is invited to return for the final month without paying a penny.

If someone goes through all the effort and expense of licensing a classic Games Workshop boardgame, you think they'd give a little notice when releasing their video game adaptation. Evidently believing contrary, Auroch Digital yesterday released the PC edition of Chainsaw Warrior, priced at only $4.99.

It feels rare for MMORPGs to shut down nowadays, not without trying free-to-play first anyway, but Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is for the chop. This December, after five-and-a-bit years online, the MMORPG based upon Games Workshop's tabletop wargame will shut down.

Games Workshop is going wild with video game adaptations lately, licensing its beloved tabletop franchises to everyone and their grandmother. That Focus Home has licensed Warhammer 40,000 off-shot Space Hulk for an FPS is no surprise, then, but here's the weird bit: Space Hulk: Deathwing> is made by Streum On Studio, the folks behind E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.

Another Warhammer 40K game is in the works. Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is a turn-based CCG set for PC, iOS, and Android in 2014.

Games Workshop may be best known for its Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 wargames, but the company has made plenty of weird and obscure board games and RPGs too. Single-player board game Chainsaw Warrior is becoming a video game thanks to Auroch Digital, giving us an hour and a hefty chainsaw to save New York from invading mutants and zombies.