{"id":10863,"date":"2011-03-24T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"warhammer-40k-space-marine-maiming-killing-burning-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10863-warhammer-40k-space-marine-maiming-killing-burning-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40K: Space Marine maiming, killing, burning in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been forty millennia in the making, and THQ has finally announced that third-person shooter Warhammer 40K: Space Marine will be deploying sometime in August 2011 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s not much else available in the way of hard intel about the game, except that players will take control of a single Space Marine &ndash; Captain Titus of the Ultramarines &ndash; who&rsquo;s tasked with preventing an Ork Warboss and his million-Ork army from recovering a Warlord-class Battle Titan abandoned somewhere on one of the Imperial Forge Worlds. Whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently players will also be able to upgrade their gear on the go, and customise their character. The devs have confirmed that they&rsquo;re recklessly bucking genre trends, and won&rsquo;t be including any sort of cover system.<\/p>\n<p>The game&rsquo;s in development over at Relic Entertainment, previously responsible for Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War and its sequels and expansions, although its only other console game &ndash; The Outfit, released in 2006 on Xbox 360 &ndash; was a commercial and critical bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THQ confirms launch date, blood for the blood god<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}