“the whole thing was cooked up in some British shed over a lot of beer” A meticulously detailed sci-fi universe full of hundreds of pre-designed units, weapons, structures and more, with a dedicated fan-base than lives and breathes the fiction? One lucky publisher should have made a mint off this IP. And yet, the history of videogame versions of Warhammer 40,000 are like the history of that universe itself: full of chaos, confusion, and the occasional burning of an entire world.
DEVELOPER So, so many, but notable alums include Relic, SSI, Gremlin, Sega, THQ and Electronic Arts.
RELEASED An average of 1.4 Warhammer 40K games (or expansions) have been released per year, since 1992.
NUTSHELL Most 40K games are turn-based strategy, while RTS is dominated by Dawn of War. But…