{"id":13416,"date":"2011-08-10T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-warhammer-40k-space-marine-co-op-to-be-patched-in-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13416-rumour-control-warhammer-40k-space-marine-co-op-to-be-patched-in-after-launch","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Warhammer 40K: Space Marine co-op to be patched in after launch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a post on the official forums which has now mysteeeeeriously vanished (although <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:oLap7VRf_0MJ:www.spacemarine.com\/forums\/topic\/2489+http:\/\/www.spacemarine.com\/forums\/topic\/2489&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;source=www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cache&rsquo;s forensics department<\/a> can help out there), THQ&rsquo;s incoming Warhammer 40K: Space Marine will be releasing without any co-op features, and adding these in &ldquo;30 days give or take after launch&rdquo; instead.<\/p>\n<p>The post &ndash; attributed to THQ community manager Mathew &ldquo;THQSledgehammer&rdquo; Everett &#8211; cites the need to &ldquo;polish up the co-op aspect of Space Marine&rdquo; as the reason for the delay. It also suggests that the co-op feature is available free only with new copies of the game, and a premium add-on for secondhand buyers.<\/p>\n<p>While THQ has not officially confirmed or denied any of this, they have released a statement saying only that, &ldquo;Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine will have co-op and we look forward to announcing more details later this month.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we can probably assume that Mathew Everett has an important appointment with HR.<\/p>\n<p>Warhammer 40K: Space Marine launches 9 September, with or without co-op.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16380-Warhammer-Space-Marine-to-ship-without-co-op-rumour\" target=\"_self\">DIscuss Warhammer 40K: Space Marine<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needs more \u201cpolish\u201d, apparently<\/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-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","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=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}